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MUHAMMAD REZA BIN MUHAMMAD MU'MIN IMAMI KHATUN-ABADI: JANNAT AL-KHULUD
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MUHAMMAD REZA BIN MUHAMMAD MU'MIN IMAMI KHATUN-ABADI: JANNAT AL-KHULUD

SIGNED MUHAMMAD TAQI BIN MUHAMMAD, QAJAR IRAN, DATED 13 RAMADAN AH 1258/18 OCTOBER 1842 AD

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MUHAMMAD REZA BIN MUHAMMAD MU'MIN IMAMI KHATUN-ABADI: JANNAT AL-KHULUD
SIGNED MUHAMMAD TAQI BIN MUHAMMAD, QAJAR IRAN, DATED 13 RAMADAN AH 1258/18 OCTOBER 1842 AD
An encyclopaedia dedicated to Shah Sultan Husayn Safavi, Persian manuscript on paper, 35ff. plus four fly-leaves, each folio with 9ll. of panels containing dense black nasta'liq within double gold rules, text panels outlined in gold, blue and black, margins with black outer rules and page numbers in gold and polychrome medallions in the outer corners, headings in red, blue and green thuluth, opening folio with gold and polychrome illuminated headpiece, the first bifolio with floral illuminated margins, occasional tables, colophon signed and dated, in original black morocco with stamped gilt medallion and borders, pink paper doublures, one board separate
Text panel 10¾ x 6¾in. (27.2 x 17.2cm.); folio 14 x 8¾in. (35.5 x 22.3cm.)
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A note at the beginning of the manuscript states that it entered the collection of Farhad Mirza in Dhu'l Qa'da AH 1258/December 1842-January 1843. Farhad Mirza was a son of 'Abbas Mirza Na'ib al-Sultaneh and a younger brother of Muhammad Shah.
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The Jannat al-khulud is an encyclopaedia, which was dedicated to Shah Sultan Husayn Safavi in AH 1127/1715 AD. It presents in table form the asma' al-husna, as well as histories of the prophets, biographies of Muhammad, 'Ali, Fatima, Hasan, Husayn and the Shi'i Imams, the sunna of the Prophet as revealed to the Imams, information on the Persian and Islamic calendars, information on the qibla, distances between various countries, various prayers, making predictions (ikhtilajat), the rulers of the world from pre-Islamic to Islamic times and information on the angels and different religions.

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