[IO Islamic 1400] مجالس المؤمنين

<ul> <li><strong>Maj&acirc;lis-almu&rsquo;min&icirc;n.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 704 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Eth&eacute;</strong></a><strong><em>,&nbsp;</em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong>&nbsp;</a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a>&nbsp;<strong>number 1400 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>f. <em>Miscellaneous.</em></p> <p>704</p> <p>Maj&acirc;lis-almu&rsquo;min&icirc;n (مجالس المؤمنين ) .</p> <p>Biographies of famous Sh&icirc;&rsquo;ites, from the beginning of Isl&acirc;m to the rise of the Ṣafaw&icirc; dynasty, and the triumph of the Sh&icirc;&rsquo;ah faith as the acknowledged state religion in Persia, A.H. 905 (A.D. 1499), composed between A.H. 993-1010 (A.D. 1585-1602), by <a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n84173662/">N&ucirc;r-all&acirc;h bin Shar&icirc;f alḥusain&icirc; almar&rsquo;ash&icirc; alsh&ucirc;shtar&icirc;</a>, and entitled Maj&acirc;lis-almu&rsquo;min&icirc;n (see fol. 2^b , ll.6 and last but one); comp. Bodleian Cat., Nos. 367-370; <a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr91025331/">Rieu</a> i [=<em><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1301270">Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the British Museum</a></em>, volume 1], p. 337 ; <a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n85070830/">W. Pertsch</a>, <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/8428709">Berlin Cat</a>., p. 564 sq.; <a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n79009953/">Goldziher</a>, <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/85084023">Beitr&auml;ge zur Literaturgeschichte der Sh&icirc;&rsquo;a und der sunnitisehen Polemik</a>, Wien, 1874; <a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr92027299/">O. Loth</a>, Zeitschrift der D. M. G., vol. 29, p. 676. Printed in Ṭahar&acirc;n, A.H. 1268.</p> <p>The work is divided into an introduction (فاتحه ) and twelve sections (مجلس ), viz.;</p> <p>فاتحه در تحقيق تعريف مطلق شيعه و شيعۀ اماميّۀ اثناعشريّه (on the Sh&icirc;&rsquo;ah in general and the Im&acirc;miyyah or Ithn&acirc;-&rsquo;ashariyyah sect in special), on fol. 2^b, last line.</p> <p>مجلس اوّل در ذكر بعضى از اماكن لطيفه و مواطن شريفه كه آنرا با ائمّۀ طاهرين و شيعۀ با اخلاص ايشان اختصاص خاصّ حاصل است (on places connected with the Sh&icirc;&rsquo;ah and the Im&acirc;ms), on fol. 10^a.</p> <p>مجلس دوم در بيان طائفۀ چند كه بتشيّع مشهور و در سلك اهل ايمان مذكورند ( on some Sh&icirc;&rsquo;ah tribes ), on fol.51^b.</p> <p>مجلس سيوم در ذكر اكابر شيعه از اصحاب حضرت سيّد الانام ( on the great Sh&icirc;&rsquo;ites among the Aṣḥ&acirc;b or companions of the prophet ), on fol. 66^a.</p> <p>مجلس چهارم در ذكر اكابر دين و افاضل مؤمنين از زمرۀ تابعين ( on the T&acirc;bi&rsquo;&icirc;n or followers of the Aṣḥ&acirc;b) , on fol. 129^a.</p> <p>مجلس پنجم در ذكر بعضى از اکابر متکلمین و افاضل مفسّرين و محدّثين و اعاظم فقهاء مجتهدين و اعيان از تبّع تابعين&hellip; (on the great theologians, commentators, traditionists, leading legists, etc., among the Tubba&rsquo; T&acirc;bi&rsquo;&icirc;n, or the second generation after the Aṣḥ&acirc;b), on fol. 154^a.</p> <p>مجلس ششم در ذكر جمعى از صوفيان صافى طويّت كه نزد سالكان مسالك طريقت الخ ( on the Ṣ&ucirc;f&icirc;s ; the heading is incomplete ), on fol. 280^b.</p> <p>مجلس هفتم در ذكر مشاهير حكماء اسلام و متكلّمين اعلام كه اكثر ايشان عالم بفروع و اصول شريعت حضرت رسول بوده اند ( on the Ḥak&icirc;ms or philosophers ), on fol. 364^a.</p> <p>مجلس هشتم در ذكر ملوك نامدار و سلاطين كامگار از فرقۀ تاجيّه (on the famous Sh&icirc;&rsquo;ah kings), on fol. 391^a.</p> <p>مجلس نهم در ذكر امراى نامدار و سپهسالاران عالى تبار كه كريمان روزگار و شاهسواران كارزار بوده اند (on the famous Sh&icirc;&rsquo;ah Am&icirc;rs, generals, etc.), on fol. 464^a.</p> <p>مجلس دهم در ذكر وزراى عظام و كاتبان كرام (on the great Sh&icirc;&rsquo;ah Waz&icirc;rs and secretaries), on fol. 478^b.</p> <p>مجلس يازدهم در ذكر شعراى عرب كه مسند ارباب ادب اند (on the Arab poets), on fol. 507^a.</p> <p>مجلس دوازدهم در ذكر شعراى عجم (on the Persian poets), on fol. 545^b.</p> <p>This last Majlis begins with Firdaus&icirc; (on ff. 545^b-557^a), Asad&icirc; (on ff. 557^a-558^a), etc., and ends with Lis&acirc;n&icirc; (on ff. 597^a-598^a).</p> <p>Beginning, on fol. 1^b: نفحات دلگشاى حمد و رشحات جانفزاى ثنا كه از جهت شمال اعتقاد الخ .</p> <p>The author, <a href="https://en.wikishia.net/view/Al-Sayyid_Nur_Allah_al-Husayni_al-Shushtari">Sayyid N&ucirc;r-all&acirc;h</a>, suffered for his Sh&icirc;&rsquo;ah tendencies under the emperor Jah&acirc;ngir (A.H. 1014-1037=A.D. 1605-1627), see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Thomas_Colebrooke">H. T. Colebrooke</a>, Asiatic Researches, vol. vii. p. 338.</p> <p>No date.</p> <p>No. 1400, ff. 598, ll. 23; written in unequal Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ, by different hands; size, 11^1/4 in. by 7 in.</p> <ul> <li>[<strong>ed note</strong>: Quick <a href="https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/person_60491736">link</a> to other manuscripts of this author.]</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p>