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Author: Abdullah Jan Faruqi
Date: 1342
Publication Date: 1342 AH / 1925
Subject: Gravestone | Marthiya (elegaic poem) | Sufism | Hazratkhel | Shrines; Fazl Rahim | ʿAbdullah Jan Faruqi; Thana | Malakand | Pakistan | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; 20th century
Language: Persian
Type: Document
Library: UCLA Digital Library
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Nazm al-Aqeed al-Arabi and al-Farsi

Author: Wali Ahmad Nizampuri / Wali Ahmad Nizampuri
Date: 1934
Publication Date: 1934
Publication Place: Printer: Delhi (India) - Matbaʿ Tajalli Barqi Press
Subject: Jurisprudence (fiqh) | Taqlid | Islam | Doctrine (ʿaqidah) | Prophet, attributes | Hanafi jurisprudence; Mawlawi Muhammad Shafiʿ | Husayn Ahmad Madani | Prophet Muhammad; Delhi | Deoband | India
Language: ara,fas
Type: Document
Library: UCLA Digital Library
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Proving listening and listening to what the listeners find pleasure in

Author: Ubaydullah Hanafi Qadiri / ʿUbaydullah Hanafi Qadiri
Date: 1883
Publication Date: 1883
Publication Place: Printer: Lucknow (India) - Matbaʿ Nami
Subject: Jurisprudence (fiqh) | Islam | Qadiri order | Hanafi jurisprudence | Sufism | Samaʿ (audience) | Traditions | Praise of the Prophet | Sufi practices | Dhikr | Saints | Poetry; Prophet Muhammad; India
Language: Persian
Type: Book
Library: UCLA Digital Library
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History section Khanqah Sharif

Author: Abdullah Jan Faruqi
Date: 1396
Publication Date: 1396 AH / 1976-77
Subject: Chronograms | Poetry | Idak Khanaqah; ʿAbdullah Jan Faruqi; Idak | Waziristan | Pakistan | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; 20th century
Language: Persian
Type: Document
Library: UCLA Digital Library
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Diwan Sharif

Author: Abdullah Jan Faruqi
Subject: Islam | Poetry collection (divan) | Sufism | Theology; ʿAbdullah Jan Faruqi; Thana | North Waziristan | Idak | Malakand | Pakistan | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; 20th century
Language: fas,pus,urd
Type: Document
Library: UCLA Digital Library
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Majmū‘ah (M1513)

Publication Date: n.d.
Subject: Title: Risālah dar falsafah
Language: Persian
Type: Document
Library: UCLA Digital Library
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Majmū‘ah M1512

Subject: Title: Risālah-ʾi Bābā Afz̤alTitle: Risālah-ʾi iṣṭilāḥātTitle: Risālah dar tahrīr-i ma‘nī vujūd-i muṭlaqTitle: Risālah-ʾi kalamāt-i bāqiyah
Language: Persian
Type: Document
Library: UCLA Digital Library
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Majmū'ah (M1511)

Subject: Title: Madārij al-kamālTitle: Inshā-nāmahTitle: Risālah-ʾi falsafahTitle: ‘Arz̤-nāmahTitle: Jāvdān-nāmahTitle: Chand risālah; Several short treatises on the soul.Title: Yanbū‘ al-ḥayatTitle: Tarjumah-ʾi Nafs
Language: Persian
Type: Document
Library: UCLA Digital Library
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Majmūʿah (M1393)

Publication Date: n.d.
Subject: Title: Mukhtaṣar dar qirāʾatTitle: Bāz'nāmah; History of falconry.Title: Khayl'nāmah; Veterinary text about horses.Title: Sharḥ-i Mihr-i buzurgvār; Text is located in the margins of the manuscript.Title: Darvīsh'nāmah; Text is located in the margins of the manuscript.
Language: Persian
Type: Document
Library: UCLA Digital Library
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Majmūʿah

Subject: Title: Al-Anwār al-sulaymānīyah; (1) Pp. 3-192. Shi'ite philosophical textbook. *AU (can't find in LOC) ʿAbbās Mawlawī (d. 1101 AH). This text is referred to in Corbin, HIP 1.72.Title: Bahr (?) al-ansāb; (2) Assuming DP means "Baḥr al-ansāb," a treatise on the geneaology of major Shi'ite figures. *Need to check again. Ending missing.
Language: Persian
Type: Document
Library: UCLA Digital Library
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Dīvān-i Shāhī

Author: Amīr Shāhī Sabzavārī, $d d. 1453
Publication Date: n.d.
Subject: Persian poetry
Language: Persian
Type: Document
Library: UCLA Digital Library
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Jahān'nāmah

Author: Kâtip Çelebi, $d 1609-1657
Date: 1302
Publication Date: 1302 [1884 or 1885]
Subject: Iran--History--Early works to 1800
Language: Persian
Type: Document
Library: UCLA Digital Library
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Khaṭṭ

Author: Tabriz, Ẓahir al-Din Mir ʿAli ibn Hassan Sultani ʿAlawi, $d d. 1446 hours 7
Date: 1293
Publication Date: 1293 [1876 or 1877]
Subject: Calligraphy--Early works to 1800
Language: Persian
Type: Document
Library: UCLA Digital Library
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Majmūʿah

Date: 1279
Publication Date: 1279 [1862 or 1863]
Subject: Title: Tarjumah-ʾi Tawḥīd-i mufaḍḍal; The name Muḥammad Bāqir appears on folio 131.Title: Vaṣīyat'namah-ʾi Luqmān; Dānish'pazhūh believes the author is Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī Majlisī. Folios 131-153.Title: Ikhtiyārāt; Interpretation of the dates of Islamic holidays and birthdates of Qurānic fiqures. Eg. In folio 159 author states that day 23, Joseph's Birthday, is a good day for business, obtaining a wife, approaching a king or sultan [with a request] etc. {see also folios 154-164}.Title: ʿIlm-i firāsat; According to Dānis'pazhūh, the author is Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī Majlisī. Folios 164-175.Title: Kunūz al-rumūz; Author is unknown. Folios 175-8.
Language: Persian
Type: Document
Library: UCLA Digital Library
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Majmūʿah

Publication Date: n.d.
Subject: Title: Sarguẕasht-i Sayyid Muḥammad Nūrbakhshī; Author is unknown.Title: Khulāṣah-ʾi mukālamāt-i majlis-i sivvum va chahārum-i ḥākim-i Gujarāt; Author is unknown.Title: Muʾnis al-fuqarāʾ; A treatise on the soul, the body and on various prayers recited during the day and on reciting the samāʿ.Title: untitled
Language: ara,fas
Type: Document
Library: UCLA Digital Library
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Naṣāyiḥ al-mulūk

Author: Abū Ẕriamhar
Date: 1303
Publication Date: 1303 [1885 or 1886]
Subject: Persian literature | Political ethics | Education of princes
Language: Persian
Type: Document
Library: UCLA Digital Library
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Majmūʿah

Date: 1276
Publication Date: 1276 [1859 or 1860]
Subject: Title: Mirʾāt al-muḥaqqiqīnTitle: ḤawrāʾiyahTitle: Chihil Sūrah-ʾi Tawrāt; Forty chapters from the Old Testament.Title: Parākandahʹhā; Author is unknown.
Language: Persian
Type: Document
Library: UCLA Digital Library
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Culliat-i Shapur

Author: Shapour in Tihran, Arjasb ibn Khwajagi, $d 17th cent.
Date: 1302
Publication Date: 1302 [1884 or 1885]
Subject: Persian poetry
Language: Persian
Type: Document
Library: UCLA Digital Library
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Dīvān-i Valī

Author: Niʿmat Allāh Walī, $d 1330?-1431
Publication Date: n.d.
Subject: Persian poetry
Language: Persian
Type: Document
Library: UCLA Digital Library
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Majmūʿah

Date: 1279
Publication Date: 1279 [1862 or 1863]
Subject: Persian poetry; Title: Manṭiq al-ṭayrTitle: Dīvān-i ʿAlī Shāh Muẓaffar
Language: Persian
Type: Document
Library: UCLA Digital Library
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Nuzhat al-qulūb

Author: Ḥamd Allāh Mustawfī Qazvīnī, $d fl. 1330-1340
Publication Date: n.d.
Subject: Islamic Empire--History--Early works to 1800 | Almanacs--Early works to 1800
Language: Persian
Type: Document
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ʿĀlam ārā-yi ʿAbbāsī

Author: Iskandar Munshī, $d 1560 or 61-1633 or 4
Publication Date: n.d.
Subject: ʿAbbas--I,--Shah of Iran,--1571-1629 | Iran--History--Ṣafavid dynasty, 1501-1736--Early works to 1800
Language: Persian
Type: Document
Library: UCLA Digital Library
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Majmūʿah

Publication Date: n.d.
Subject: Persian poetry; Title: Dīvān-i ManūchihrīTitle: Dīvān-i Adīb Ṣābir
Language: Persian
Type: Document
Library: UCLA Digital Library
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Kitab-i Kubra

Author: Jurjānī, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad, $c al-Sayyid al-Sharīf, $d 1340-1413
Date: 1232
Publication Date: 1232 [1816 or 1817]
Subject: Logic; Title: Kubrá; A philosophical treatise on topics regarding logic, such as definitions, propositions, and syllogisms. Includes marginal notes.Title: Sharḥ Īsāghūjī; A commentary by Ḥusām al-Dīn al-Kātī on Athīr al-Dīn al-Abharī's commentary on the Greek philosopher Porphyry's work on logic, Isagoge (known in Arabic as Īsāghūjī), a treatise in logic, such as definitions, propositions, and syllogisms. Includes marginal notes.Title: Hāshiyat Sharḥ al-Īsāghūjī; Includes notes in the margins. A commentary on al-Abharī's Iṣāghujī. A philosophical treatise on main topics in logic such as definitions, propositions, and syllogisms.Title: Sharḥ al-Isāghūjī
Language: Persian
Type: Document
Library: UCLA Digital Library
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Tuḥfah-ʾi ʿAbbāsī

Author: Qummī, Muḥammad Ṭāhir, $d d. 1686 or 7
Publication Date: n.d.
Subject: Shīʿah--Doctrines--Early works to 1800; Title: Ḥilyat al-muttaqīn; Text includes 15 chapters on Shiite popular beliefs based on jurisprudence. Ch.1 On the manner of dress Ch.2 On the wearing of ornaments and jewles Ch.3 On the etiquette of eating and drinking Ch.4 On marriage and sexual intercourse with women and the education of children Ch.5 On personal hygiene (brushing one's hair and teeth) Ch.6 On perfuming oneself Ch.7 On showering Ch.8 On sleeping Ch.12 On entering and leaving the house Ch.14 On riding, walking Ch.15 On travels. Arabic chapter headings are in the naskh script. Composed ca. A.H. 1079.
Language: Persian
Type: Document
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al-Muʿjam fī ās̱ar mulūk al-ʿajam

Author: Shirazi, Sharf al-Din Faz̤l Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh Ḥusaynī Qazvini (d. A.H.740)
Date: 1285
Publication Date: 684 [1285 or 1286]
Subject: Iran--History--To 640--Early works to 1800 | Persian poetry
Language: Persian
Type: Document
Library: UCLA Digital Library
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Majmūʿah (Manuscript 135)

Author: Ibn Muḥammad Ḥasan Kātib, ʿAbd al-Vahāb
Publication Date: n.d.
Subject: Title: Panjāh mawiẓah-ʾi Khuda bih Mūsá bī miyānjīgarī-i Jibrāʾīl; Author is unknown.Title: Nijāt al-muʾminīn; Item contains rubrics. Author is unknown.Title: Nas̱r al-laʾālī; Text is a Persian-Arabic niṣāb. Arabic original is given above each hemistich. Author is unknown.
Language: Persian
Type: Document
Library: UCLA Digital Library
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