Item Summary

First volume of an anti-Christian polemic written by a convert to Islam who emigrated to Iran during the reign of Safavid Shāh Sultān Ḥusayn (r. 1694-1722). The text was originally written in a European language then translated by the author into Persian. The complete work is supposed to consist of four volumes; however, only the first volume appears to be extant (Āghā Buzurg, XXV, 179).

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب هداية الضالين وكفاية المؤمنين / از فاضل جديد الاسلم عليقلي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb-i Hidāyat al-ḍāllīn wa-kifāyat al-muʾminīn / az fāḍil Jadīd al-Islam ʻAlī-Qulī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 282
Identifier
ark:/88435/pz50h2568
Publisher
[1928]
Language
Persian
Date Created
1928
Format
Manuscript
Extent
126 leaves : paper ; 205 x 164 mm. bound to 208 x 168 mm.
References
Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), XXV, 179
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 1b.
Physical description: 13-26 lines per page; written in shikastah in black on modern paper. Fol. 90a-95b written in purple ink; fol. 107-108 on lined paper. Rubrication in purple; catchwords on most pages. A few marginal notes. Paginated in Arabic script beginning on fol. 1a. fol. 97b blank, but no lacuna in text. Inserts between fol. 54-55, 105-106. Some leaves detached and edges of paper dog-eared.
Origin: Copy completed 16 Shaʻbān 1346 H. [8 February 1928].
Incipit: سپاس بىقىاس صانع بى نظىر را سزاوار است که گلستانجهان از آفتاب سنع آورده و بوستان فلک از اظهار موضوعات درىاى وجودش قطره ىست
Binding Note
Limp brown leather with tooled fillets; spine reinforced with cloth.

Discovery Information

Subject
Christianity and other religions—Islam—Early works to 1800
Islam—Relations—Christianity—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
132

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
Holding location
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IIIF Manifest URL

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