COMPLETED BY IBN MUHAMMAD ZAKI, KNOWN AS ABU'L-HASAN, QAJAR IRAN, DATED 4 RAJAB AH 1232/20 MAY 1817 AD

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MUHAMMAD BAQIR AL-MAJLISI (D. 1698): ZAD AL-MA'AD
COMPLETED BY IBN MUHAMMAD ZAKI, KNOWN AS ABU'L-HASAN, QAJAR IRAN, DATED 4 RAJAB AH 1232⁄20 MAY 1817 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 263ff. each with 24ll. of black naskh of 12ll. with interlinear Persian translation in red nasta'liq, key words picked out in red, within blue and gold rules, catchwords, the opening bifolio with dense gold and polychrome illuminated margins and headpiece, the colophon signed and dated, in contemporaneous lacquer binding, the doublures red lacquer, paper pasted over final doublure
Text panel 5 ¾ x 3 ¼in. (14.8 x 8.2cm.); folio 7 7⁄8 x 5in. (20.2 x 12.8cm.)

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Muhammad Baqir bin Muhammad Taqi bin Maqsud 'Ali al-Majlisi al-Isfahani (AH 1037-1110/1627-98 AD) was one of the foremost religious thinkers of his time and among the most prolific authors in Twelver Shi'ism. He held the office of Shaykh al-Islam under Shah Sulayman (d. AH 1106/1694 AD) and Mulla Bashi under Shah Sultan Husayn (d. AH 1125/1713 AD) and wrote several important works, the most famous being Bihar al-anwar (Seas of Lights) and Zad al-ma'ad (Provisions for the Resurrection). The latter, of which this manuscript is a copy, is a text in Arabic containing prayers for each day of the year, with titles and explanatory introductions given in Persian (Encyclopaedia of Islam, Leiden, 1986 pp.1086-88).

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