MS. Arab. g. 42 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Summary of Contents: A brass printing plate dated 1142 AH/1729-30 CE containing an intaglio Arabic genealogical seal for a certain Kamāl al-Dīn Ḥusayn ibn Nūr al-Dīn Ḥusayn, tracing his lineage back to the Prophet Muḥammad through the Shīʿite Imams.

Title: An Arabic genealogical seal.

Language(s): Arabic

بسم الله الرحمٰن الرحيم شاه كمال الدين حسين بن شاه نور الدين حسين بن عبد الكريم بن عيسى بن عبد الرحمٰن بن عبد الوهاب بن قطب بن جنيد بن عبد الرحمن بن عبد الكريم بن نور الدين بن محمد بن ابو سعيد بن محمد بن سيد جلال بن علي بن جعفر بن محمد بن محمود بن احمد بن عبد الله بن علي اصغر بن جعفر من اخيه امام حسن بن امام على نقى بن امام محمد تقى بن امام على رضا بن امام موسى كاظم بن امام جعفر صادق بن امام محمد باقر بن امام زين العابدين بن امام حسين من اخيه امام حسن بن على ابن ابى طالب كرم الله تعالى وجهه من اخيه سيد الكائنات محمد مصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم ۱۱۴۲

Bism Allāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Shāh Kamāl al-Dīn Ḥusayn ibn Shāh Nūr al-Dīn Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn ʿĪsā ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Quṭb ibn Junayd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Nūr al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad ibn Abū Saʿīd ibn Muḥammad ibn Sayyid Jalāl ibn ʿAlī ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī Aṣghar ibn Jaʿfar min akhīhi Imām Ḥasan ibn Imām ʿAlī Naqī ibn Imām Muḥammad Taqī ibn Imām ʿAlī Riḍā ibn Imām Mūsā Kāẓim ibn Imām Jaʿfar Ṣādiq ibn Imām Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Imām Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn ibn Imām Ḥusayn min akhīhi Imām Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib karrama Allāhu taʿālā wajhahu min akhīhī Sayyid al-Kāʾināt Muḥammad Muṣṭafā ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallama 1142.

Physical Description

Form: other

Extent: A single teardrop-shaped engraved brass plate.

Layout

Hand(s)

Script: Nastaʻlīq.

Decoration

Binding

History

Origin: India; 1142 AH; 1729-30 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchased from Samuel Gedge Ltd., Catalogue XXXV, lot 80, 29th November 2023.

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