Delhi Persian 313 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Shiʻa-sunni polemical sectarian works (a-f)
Contents
Letters between Javād ʻAlī and the Shiʻa controversialist Dildār ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad Muʻīn al-Naṣīrābādī (d. 1820).
Also includes letters between Javād ʻAlī and other correspondents.
References
A polemic against muftis who declare unbelievers to be ritually clean by Muftī Muḥammad Qulī ibn Muḥammad Nīshāpūrī Kāntūrī (d. 1844).
References
A reply to an anti-sunni polemic, apparently the Sayf-i Nāṣirī.
The title is taken from a note signed by Muḥammad Karīm Allāh on f. 43r. The work is incomplete at the end.
References
A reply by Rashīd al-Dīn Dihlavi to part of Dildār ʻAlī's polemic Ḥusām al-islām, itself directed against ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz Dihlavī's anti-Shiʻa treatise Tuḥfah-ʼi Is̱nāʼ-ʻasharīyah. The title is supplied.
A note on f. 72r is signed by Muḥammad Karīm Allāh. .
References
A Shiʻa response without title or author to arguments proposed in ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz Dihlavī's Tuḥfah-ʼi Is̱nā-ʻasharīyah.
References
Selections from Rashīd al-Dīn Dihlavī's Ṣawlat-i ghaz̤anfarīyah, a refutation of the Shiʻa practice of temporary marriage (mutʿah), preceded by an introduction by the anonymous compiler.
Followed on ff. 174v-175r by a list of points which Sunnis have disagreed with in Dildār ʻAlī's Ṣavārim.
References
Physical Description
India Office stamped foliation; individual works are numbered separately in Persian.
Collation
Catchwords.
Condition
Poor condition; only one detached board survives.
Layout
15 lines per page.
Hand(s)
Nastaʻlīq; copied in black ink with headings and overlinings in red.
Pencilled note on f. ir lists the contents of the majmūʻah.
Some marginal notes.
Binding
Only one board is preserved of an original three-quarter leather binding with marbled board; paper pastedown.
Black Government of India Delhi MSS oval stamp (ff. ir, 42v, 43r, 71v, 72r, 94r, 164v, 166r, 175v).
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Owned by the theologian Mawlavī Muḥammad Karīm Allāh who flourished in the first part of the nineteenth century.
Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859; administrative deposit India Office Library, 1876.
Acquired by the Government of India in 1876
Record Sources
Based on R. Levy's descriptions in Drafts for Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. III referred to above. Revised by Ursula Sims-Williams
Availability
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Surrogates
Microfilm IOL Neg 680
Funding of Cataloguing
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