A descriptive catalogue of the Oriental mss. belonging to the late E. G. Browne / by Edward G. Browne, completed & edited with a memoir of the author and a bibliography of his writings by Reynold A. Nicholson.

Edward Granville Browne

Date:: 1932

Credit: A descriptive catalogue of the Oriental mss. belonging to the late E. G. Browne / by Edward G. Browne, completed & edited with a memoir of the author and a bibliography of his writings by Reynold A. Nicholson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$2 I ‘(f. 3^^) Jtjb ^Uol aCoI (f. 3^*^) jgif^Xs- [jt j] OLol ^0*^ ^J«-as ‘(f. 56^) a^jI jjL*» Olol ,J-«a9 The transcription was completed on 12 Rabi‘ i, 1216/July 23, 1801, by Muhammad Zamdn ibn Muhammad S^diq of Shiraz. Mulla Muhammad Taqi ibn Maqsud ‘Ali al-Majlisi, who was born in 1003/ 1594-5 and died in 1070/1659—60, was one of the greatest and most famous of the later Shi'a doctors of Persia. Full accounts of him are given in the RawddtM- 'l-Janndt (lith. Tihran, 1306/Jan. 1889), pp. 129—131, and in the Qisasu l-'Ulamd, No. 36, while the present work is mentioned in the Kashfu l-Hujub, p. 195, No. 1008. It begins after the Bismi'lldh and the brief doxology: The Introduction {Muqaddmna, ff. 6 A—65^) treats of the virtues of Prayer. Chapter i (ff. 65^—139^): on Purification {Ahkdm-i-Tahdi^a£). ,, II (ff. 139^-229^): on the rules of Prayer [Ahkdm-i-Namdz). ,, III (ff. 229—260^): on Alms [Ahkdm-i-Zakdt u Khums). ,, IV (ff. 260^-e^ seqq.): on Fasting i^Ahkdm-i-Rdzd). ,, V (apparently missing): on Pilgrimage i^Ahkdm-i-Hajj 71 Ziydrdt). Conclusion i^Khdiima, also missing): on rules governing acts other than acts of devotion which all believers should know. The book was perhaps never finished, but there is no defect in the MS., which ends with two short lines (without colophon) and the word ^ (“Finis”) thrice repeated. C. 17 (7). An untitled Arabic tract by Mullfi Muhammad Baqir-i-Majlisi, the son of Mulla Muhammad Taqi mentioned in the last article, than whom he was even more famous as a theologian. Begins :$