This work has been authored at the time of King Sulṭān Ḥusayn Ṣafavī (ruled 1105-1135 AH, 1694-1722). The author, being a devotee of the Safavid family and a believer in Shiʿa, answers in eight chapters from an ideological viewpoint to eight fundamental issues that two Sunni authors had arisen about the habits and actions of Shāh Ismāʿīl in their books called "Tārīkh-i Makkah" and "Tārīkh-i Dīyār-i Miṣr". The author has also written another book called "Badīʿ al-Bayān li-Maʿānī al-Qurʾān" (see DEN 460/2). Rasūl Jaʿfarīyān believes he should be a son of Iʿtimād al-Dawlah Shaykh ʿAlī Khān Zanganah, the renowned minister of Shāh Ismāʿīl. — Multiple dates; Unknown place of origin

Title

This work has been authored at the time of King Sulṭān Ḥusayn Ṣafavī (ruled 1105-1135 AH, 1694-1722). The author, being a devotee of the Safavid family and a believer in Shiʿa, answers in eight chapters from an ideological viewpoint to eight fundamental issues that two Sunni authors had arisen about the habits and actions of Shāh Ismāʿīl in their books called "Tārīkh-i Makkah" and "Tārīkh-i Dīyār-i Miṣr". The author has also written another book called "Badīʿ al-Bayān li-Maʿānī al-Qurʾān" (see DEN 460/2). Rasūl Jaʿfarīyān believes he should be a son of Iʿtimād al-Dawlah Shaykh ʿAlī Khān Zanganah, the renowned minister of Shāh Ismāʿīl. — Multiple dates; Unknown place of origin

Shelfmark

Wadh.Minasian 158

Place of origin

Unknown place of origin

Date

17-18th century

Language

Persian

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Western paper, natural buff, regular thickness, one size; double ruling (gilt and black). Corrosion at the bottom of initial folios; edge-mending at some folios.

Physical extent

68+1 ff.

Hands

Graceful Nastaʿalīq, one hand, regular; the last two lines of the copy are wiped off. Unknown scribe (possibly the author).

Decoration

Rubricated titles; rubricated lines above some expressions.

Acquisition

Donated to The Ferdowsi Library by Dr Caro Minasian in 1972.

Subject

Iran--History--Ṣafavid dynasty, 1501-1736