[IO Islamic 240] ديوان ظهير الدين شفروه

<ul> <li><strong>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-Żah&icirc;r-ald&icirc;n Shufurwah.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 934&nbsp;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 240 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>934</p> <p>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-Żah&icirc;r-ald&icirc;n Shufurwah ( ديوان ظهير الدين شفروه).</p> <p>According to the short prose preface, on fol. 1^b:امام عالم بارع افضل اكمل ظهير الدين شفروه اصفهانى روّح الله روحه مردى بى نظير و حكيم بوده است و مستجمع جميع علوم و واعظ نيز در عهد سلطان ارسلان بوده و مدح او و پسرش طغرل گفته الخ, this copy contains the extremely rare d&icirc;w&acirc;n-not met with in any other collection- of Żah&icirc;r-ald&icirc;n &lsquo;Abdall&acirc;h Shufurwah of Iṣfah&acirc;n, who was a cousin of the better-known Sharaf-aldin Muḥammad Faḍl-all&acirc;h or &lsquo;Abd-almu&rsquo;min Shufurwah (see Haft Iḳlim, Nos. 867 and 868, col. 441 in this Cat.; &Acirc;tashkada, Nos. 391 and 406, Bodleian Cat., cols. 276 and 277; and A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 17, No. 35), and, like him, a panegyrist of Sulṭ&acirc;n Arsl&acirc;n bin Ṭughrul Salj&ucirc;ḳ&icirc; (A.H. 556-571=A.D. 1161-1176) and of his son and successor, Sulṭ&acirc;n Ṭughrul III (A.H. 571-590=A.D. 1176-1194); comp. also the Makhzan-alghar&acirc;&rsquo;ib, No. 1492 in Bodleian Cat., col. 349, where he is praised as an expert in law, tradition, and Ḳur&acirc;n-interpretation, and where some poetical extracts are given, which, however, cannot be traced in this copy. The d&icirc;w&acirc;n consists of ḳaṣ&icirc;das, intermixed with a few ghazals, ḳiṭ&rsquo;as, and four rub&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;s.</p> <p>Beginning of the d&icirc;w&acirc;n, on fol. 1^b:</p> <p>اى هستئ بى نشان نشانت &ndash; بيخود خرد از علوّ شانت</p> <p>No date.</p> <p>No. 240, ff. 1-88, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; worm-eaten; size, 8^3/8 in. by 4^3/4 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>