Reading Manuscripts (40)
Document Type : pajoohesh
Author
10.22081/jap.2025.77747
Abstract
In the present installment— the 38th in the ongoing Reading Manuscripts series— the author examines the text of several manuscripts. Among the titles featured in this collection are:
A note by the late Bāstānī Rād on a copy of the Dīvān of Kāshif Isfahānī;
A supplication (du‛āʾ) penned by a Safavid-era scholar invoking the continuity of the reign of Shāh Sultān Ḥusayn through connection with the rule of Ṣāḥib al-Zamān (‛a);
A folio from a manuscript addressing the Islamic caliphate and refuting a book titled Mustaqbal al-Islām (The Future of Islam);
A note reporting Iran’s population in 1316/1898 as 24 krūr (approximately 12 million);
A letter addressed to Dhukā’ al-Mulk expressing loyalty to the monarch;
Titles and honorifics of Safavid kings;
A theological inquiry posed to Mulla ‛Alī Nūrī regarding the doctrine of ‛iṣma (infallibility).
A note by the late Bāstānī Rād on a copy of the Dīvān of Kāshif Isfahānī;
A supplication (du‛āʾ) penned by a Safavid-era scholar invoking the continuity of the reign of Shāh Sultān Ḥusayn through connection with the rule of Ṣāḥib al-Zamān (‛a);
A folio from a manuscript addressing the Islamic caliphate and refuting a book titled Mustaqbal al-Islām (The Future of Islam);
A note reporting Iran’s population in 1316/1898 as 24 krūr (approximately 12 million);
A letter addressed to Dhukā’ al-Mulk expressing loyalty to the monarch;
Titles and honorifics of Safavid kings;
A theological inquiry posed to Mulla ‛Alī Nūrī regarding the doctrine of ‛iṣma (infallibility).
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