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This famous work from the Royal Asiatic Society is an indispensable
tool for all serious students of Persian literature, history and
culture, and a welcome companion to Persian literature in its most
glorious period. This volume is the second, revised edition of
three parts published in 1992 and 1994.
I.B.Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies The
Muhammad Ali Hamdani Collection in the Library of The Institute of
Ismaili Studies represents a large segment of the library collected
over seven generations by an eminent family of scholars from the
Da'udi Bohra community in India and the Yemen. The bulk of the
manuscripts are Ismaili religious writings, but there are also a
good number of interesting books of general Islamic, or indeed
secular content, and these give a rare insight into the whole
cultural range of a learned family of Indian religious scholars.
The overwhelming majority of the books are in Arabic, but there are
also a small number in Persian and in Bohra da'wat language (lisan
al da'wat), Gujarati in Arabic script. Most of the manuscripts were
produced in India, but some of the most interesting ones are from
the Yemen, the ancestral home of the Hamdani clan (the oldest of
these is from the 14th century CE, or perhaps earlier). The
catalogue contains detailed descriptions of the manuscripts in this
Hamdani collection, discussing both the content of the works and
the codicological features of the manuscripts. The introduction
contains also a comprehensive history of the Hamdani family.
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