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Suʼālāt sabʻah, 1920
Collection Overview
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Scope and Contents
Seven questions concerning contemporary social and political matters and their answers from a Shiʻite perspective; in Persian. The author is not the well-known supporter and son-in-law of Ṣubḥ-i Azal, since it was written about 18 years after the former's death.
19 lines per page. Written in naskh in black on lined paper; rubrication in violet and catchwords. Spine label in Arabic script reads "249 Suʼālāt-i sabʻah-i Ruʼyā-yi Rūhī Kirmānī." The modern foliation in pencil in Western numerals (followed in this record) omits the first folio. Paginated in Arabic script 1-90.
Text written in Rajab 1337H (April 1919); this copy completed on 2 Shaʻbān 1338H (21 April 1920) (fol. 90a). In the handwriting of Mīrzā Muṣṭafá.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم (مقدمه) اينک دوازده مرحله از عمر تجدد ايران گذشته و هنون ملت اين مرز و بوم در محور بى علمى احتياج فقر بد بختى سيارند و ىک بارقه فلاح و نجاحى در سراسر اين کشور پديدار نيست
Collection History
- Custodial History
Formerly owned by Saʻid Khan Kurdistani (Dr. Saeed Khan).
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Finding aid written in 2010.
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Suʼālāt sabʻah; William McElwee Miller Collection of Bābī Writings and Other Iranian Texts, C0723-1-47, Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
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- Bibliography
The following works were consulted in identifying texts and authors: Āghā Buzurg al-Ṭihrānī, M. Al-Dharīʻah ilá Taṣānīf al-Shīʻah. Maṭbaʻat al-Ghará: Najaf, 1936. Browne, E. G. Catalogue and Description of 27 Bábí Manuscripts, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1892), p. 433-499, 637-710. Browne, E. G. Some Remarks on the Bábí Texts Edited by Baron Victor Rosen, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1892), p. 259-322. Browne, E. G. Materials for the Study of the Bábí Religion. Cambridge University Press, 1918. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Oriental Mss. Belonging to the Late E.G. Browne. Ed. Reynold A. Nicholson. Cambridge University Press, 1932. Jānī, M. Kitab-i Nuqṭat al-Kāf. Ed. E. G. Browne. E. J. Brill: Leiden, 1910. McCants, W. and Milani, K. The History and Provenance of an Early Manuscript of the Nuqtat al-Kaf Dated 1268 (1851-1852), in Iranian Studies 37:3 (Sept. 2004), p. 431-449. McEoin, D. The Sources for Early Bābī Doctrine and History: A Survey. E. J. Brill: Leiden, 1992. Notes on Babi Manuscripts by Dr. Saeed Khan and Miscellaneous Correspondence; 1955-1982; William McElwee Miller Papers, Box 4, Folder 8; Manuscripts Division, Special Collections, Princeton University Library. Link to Notes. Writings published on H-Bahai web site (accessed July 2, 2010). Writings published on Hurqalya Publications web site (accessed July 2, 2010). Writings published on The Religion of Bayan web site (accessed July 2, 2010).
