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This treatise is prepared to provide the pilgrimage customs of holy places and several pilgrimage prayer texts. The compiler firstly presents the instructions and customs for religious journeys, and continues to unfold, in his multiple chapters, many (pilgrimage) prayer texts for every holy place, with their specific customs, recommended praises and salavats, and required oaths. The book has been written in 1085 AH/1675. — Multiple dates; Unknown place of origin

Wadh.Minasian 52

Wadham College, University of Oxford

Details

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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 treatise is prepared to provide the pilgrimage customs of holy places and several pilgrimage prayer texts. The compiler firstly presents the instructions and customs for religious journeys, and continues to unfold, in his multiple chapters, many (pilgrimage) prayer texts for every holy place, with their specific customs, recommended praises and salavats, and required oaths. The book has been written in 1085 AH/1675. — Multiple dates; Unknown place of origin

Shelfmark

Wadh.Minasian 52

Place of origin

Unknown place of origin

Date

19th century

Language

Persian

Contents

Author: Majlisī, Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī, 1627 or 1628-ca. 1699 مجلسی، محمد باقر بن محمد تقی، ۱۱۱۱ق/۱۷۰۰ Title: Tuḥfat al-zāʾir Title: تحفة الزائر

Support

Western paper (watermark), natural buff, regular thickness, one size, glossy.

Physical extent

165 ff.

Hands

Calligraphic Naskh, one hand, regular

Decoration

Persian and Arabic expressions between two lines; Persian translations in cinnabar; rubricated titles.

Acquisition

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

Subject

Islam--Prayers and devotions

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  • Mohammad Emami
  • Ali Mir-Ansari

  • Majlisī, Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī, 1627 or 8-ca. 1699

  • Minasian, Caro Owen

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