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This work has an introduction and several chapters on the practices of Islam. The author has provided religious issues, customs, and rules for his followers in the order of jurisprudential topics. The topics of طهارت and صلاهare comprehensive, while other topics are brief and imperative taken from his other book al-Maṣābīḥ. The topics of اجتهاد and تقلیدare discussed in the introduction. The book has later been translated into Persian by one of the author's students, Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ʿAlī Yazdī, by the order of the author himself. The current copy is the Persian translation of the original book, and contains from the beginning of the book up until the end of a chapter for صوم. — Multiple dates; Unknown place of origin

Wadh.Minasian 415

Wadham College, University of Oxford

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For the main catalogue entry, see: Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

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Title

This work has an introduction and several chapters on the practices of Islam. The author has provided religious issues, customs, and rules for his followers in the order of jurisprudential topics. The topics of طهارت and صلاهare comprehensive, while other topics are brief and imperative taken from his other book al-Maṣābīḥ. The topics of اجتهاد and تقلیدare discussed in the introduction. The book has later been translated into Persian by one of the author's students, Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ʿAlī Yazdī, by the order of the author himself. The current copy is the Persian translation of the original book, and contains from the beginning of the book up until the end of a chapter for صوم. — Multiple dates; Unknown place of origin

Shelfmark

Wadh.Minasian 415

Place of origin

Unknown place of origin

Date

1824

Language

Persian

Contents

Author: ‎Mujāhid, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī, 1766 or 1767-1826 or 1827‏ مجاهد، محمد بن علی Ṭabāṭabāʾī, Sayyid Mujāhid Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī, 1180-1242Q/1767-1827 طباطبایی، سیّد مجاهد محمد بن علی، ۱۱۸۰-۱۲۴۲ق/۱۷۶۷-۱۹۲۷ Title: Tarjumah al-iṣlāḥ va fīh al-fawz va al-falāḥ Title: ترجمه الاصلاح و فیه الفوز والفلاح Title: Iṣlāḥ-i ʿamāl Title: اصلاح عمل

Support

Western paper (watermark), pistachio, varying thickness (regular and thick), one size

Physical extent

67 ff.

Hands

Cursive Naskh, one hand, regular ‎‎Yazdī, Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ʿAlī, active 19th century‏ یزدی، حسن بن محمد علی The scribe would most likely be the same person as the translator of the book.

Acquisition

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

Subject

Islam--Doctrines

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  • Mohammad Emami
  • Yazdī, Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ʿAlī, fl. 19th century‏

  • Ali Mir-Ansari

  • Mujāhid, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī, 1766 or 7-1826 or 7‏

  • Minasian, Caro Owen

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