Wadh.Minasian 752 (The Ferdowsi Library, Wadham College, University of Oxford)

Summary of Contents: This manuscript consists of forty one chapters written in 980 AH. Each chapter comprises of a versified psalm, as well as the titles of Sermon, Praise, Psalm, veneration of the Prophet, and eulogy about Amīr al-Muʾminīn (ʿA), and a preaching at the end. The content is quoted from narratives and hadiths. The work belongs to Z̤iyāʿ al-Dīn Gurgānī, written in 930 AH in honour of Shāh Ṭahmasb. The chapter titles are as follows: Chapter one, Principles of religion; Chapter two, Merits of Science and Scientists; Chapter three, The Virtue of Prayer; Chapter four, On the Virtue of the Reward of fasting;... Chapter thirty six, On Recognising One's Self and the Route of Satan; Chapter thirty seven, On Cognition, Satisfaction and Destiny; Chapter thirty eight, On Repelling Evils; Chapter thirty nine, On the Lament for the Life and Certainity in Almighty God; Chapter forty, on the Lovers and Shiites of the Family.