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Zād al-Maʻād. The enemy increased.
( زاد المعاد)

Title	Zād al-Maʻād. The enemy increased.
Title Original	زاد المعاد
Author	Majlisī, Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī, 1627 or 1628-approximately 1699. Majlisī, Muhammad Baqir ibn Muhammad Taqi.
Author Original	مجلسى، محمد باقر بن محمد تقى
Publication Date:	1820
Subject	Shīʻah > Doctrines > Early works to 1800. Shīʻah > Customs and practices > Early works to 1800. Islam > Prayers and devotions > Early works to 1800. Manuscripts, Persian > Michigan > Ann Arbor.
Type	belge
Language	Persian
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	1 v. ([592] p.) ; 205 cm.
Library:	Columbia University Libraries
Record ID	ht005231683
Library Location	Online
Date	1820
Notes	This codex is undated, but the only stamp is dated 1311/1893-4. The cover design seems to have been done in the 19th century. Exquisite codex assembled from painted and laquered board, which features the same realistic rose design on both covers. Spine is of plain leather. Both inside covers contain crude paintings of yellow flowers (daffodils?). Pages are bordered in gold paint. Chapter titles are written in red ink upon gilded designs, accompanied by colorful designs. Initial page with frontispiece with title is elaboritely decorated with gold paint and colorful designs. Both the main Persian text and Arabic prayers are written in black ink in tawki (or possibly thulth) script; Persian translation of prayers is written in red ink in nastaʻlīq script directly beneath the prayers.
Sample Text	Prayers and pious observances for shiʻīs on ordinary and special days throughout the year according to the practice of the Imams. This book is largely divided into sections dealing with specific months of the year. The work is extracted from the author's large work, Bahār al-Anwār. The main body of the text is in Persian; the prayers themselves are in Arabic, with Persian translation.
Biyografik / Tarihsel Not	Born 1037/1627; died 1110/1698-99. Renowned Shiʻī mujtahid of 17th century Isfahān; son of the popular Sufī-minded scholar, Muḥammad Taqī Majlisī. Muḥammad Bāqir Majlisī was the highest ranking jurist under the last true Safavī monarch, Shāh Sultan Husayn.
Kaynaklar	Browne, v. iv, p.416-418.
WorldCat	https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81282230

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Zād al-Maʻād. The enemy increased.

( زاد المعاد)

Author Majlisī, Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī, 1627 or 1628-approximately 1699. Majlisī, Muhammad Baqir ibn Muhammad Taqi.

Author Original مجلسى، محمد باقر بن محمد تقى

Publication Date 1820

Subject Shīʻah > Doctrines > Early works to 1800. Shīʻah > Customs and practices > Early works to 1800. Islam > Prayers and devotions > Early works to 1800. Manuscripts, Persian > Michigan > Ann Arbor.

Type belge

Language Persian

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 1 v. ([592] p.) ; 205 cm.

Library Columbia University Libraries

Record ID ht005231683

Library Location Online

Date 1820

Notes This codex is undated, but the only stamp is dated 1311/1893-4. The cover design seems to have been done in the 19th century. Exquisite codex assembled from painted and laquered board, which features the same realistic rose design on both covers. Spine is of plain leather. Both inside covers contain crude paintings of yellow flowers (daffodils?). Pages are bordered in gold paint. Chapter titles are written in red ink upon gilded designs, accompanied by colorful designs. Initial page with frontispiece with title is elaboritely decorated with gold paint and colorful designs. Both the main Persian text and Arabic prayers are written in black ink in tawki (or possibly thulth) script; Persian translation of prayers is written in red ink in nastaʻlīq script directly beneath the prayers.

Sample Text Prayers and pious observances for shiʻīs on ordinary and special days throughout the year according to the practice of the Imams. This book is largely divided into sections dealing with specific months of the year. The work is extracted from the author's large work, Bahār al-Anwār. The main body of the text is in Persian; the prayers themselves are in Arabic, with Persian translation.

Biyografik / Tarihsel Not Born 1037/1627; died 1110/1698-99. Renowned Shiʻī mujtahid of 17th century Isfahān; son of the popular Sufī-minded scholar, Muḥammad Taqī Majlisī. Muḥammad Bāqir Majlisī was the highest ranking jurist under the last true Safavī monarch, Shāh Sultan Husayn.

Kaynaklar Browne, v. iv, p.416-418.

WorldCat https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81282230