Prayers and Charms [IO Islamic 2349] اوراد فتحیه

<ul> <li><strong>Prayers and charms</strong><strong>.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2349&nbsp;</strong><strong>in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> <strong>Otto Loth, </strong></a><strong><em><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a></em>, (volume 1), no. 368&nbsp;here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p>368.</p> <p>2349. Size 6^1/2 in. by 3^1/2 in.; foll. 16. Eleven lines in a page.</p> <p>Forms of prayer, called <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/awrad-fathiyah/oclc/950747427">أوراد فتحية</a>; beginning with the words استغفرالله العظیم, which are thrice repeated, and concluding (fol. 12) with a short prayer, which commences:</p> <p>اللهم یا مالک الرقاب</p> <p>In an edition of these prayers, published at Lakhnau, A.H. 1257, the author is called <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n85345052/">SAIYID &lsquo;AL&Icirc; HAMAD&Acirc;N&Icirc; </a>(d. A.H. 786 [=1385 CE]); and this would agree with the brief statement of Ḥ. Kh. i. 492. Cf.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n86026042/">[Charles] Stewart</a>&rsquo;s&nbsp;<a href="https://mdz-nbn-resolving.de/details:bsb10218720">Catal</a>. 176,&nbsp;and Cat. Lugd. iv. 341.</p> <p>Well written, with all the vowels. Dated &ldquo;A.H. 81&rdquo; (<em>i.e.</em> 1181?).</p> <p>The last two pages contain an enumeration of the names of God, added by a different hand. It begins:</p> <p>هو الله الذی لا اله الا هو</p> <p>[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_William_College">College of Fort William</a>.]</p> <ul> <li>[<strong>ed note</strong>: Quick <a href="https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/person_90062645">link</a> to other works by Hamadānī]</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p>