[IO Islamic 1234] رسالۀ آغاز و انجام

Risâla-i-âghâz u anjâm

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1807 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 1234 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1807

Risâla-i-âghâz u anjâm (رسالۀ آغاز و انجام).

A treatise on resurrection and future life from the Ṣûfic standpoint, by the great philosopher and astronomer Naṣir-aldîn Muḥammad bin Muḥammad bin al-Ḥasan al-Ṭûsî, who was born in Ṭûs, A.H. 597, the 11th of Jumâdâ-alawwal (A.D. 1201, Feb. 17), and died in Baghdâd, A.H. 672, the 672, the 18th of Dhû-alḥijjah (A.D. 1274, June 25) ; comp. on his life Haft Iḳlim, No. 1007 (col. 451 in this Cat., where his biography is given under the section ׳Sâwa,׳ since his family originally belonged to that town) ; Rieu ii. p. 441 sq.; Ḥabîb-ussiyar iii. Juz 1, p. 60 ; Bodleian Cat., No. 1435 sq. ; A. Jourdain in Magasin encyclopédique, 1809, t. vi. p. 87 sq. He wrote besides his strictly scientific works a number of shorter Ṣûfic tracts, of which the present and the two following ones are the most prominent.

An extensive list of his literary composition is given in the Majâlis-almu׳minîn (No. 704 in this Cat.).

This risâlah is divided into twenty faṣls, the headings of which are given in Bodleian Cat., No. 1422, vi (col. 863); see also Rieu ii. p. 830a, No. XVI. It is also frequently styled تذكره.

Beginning: ربّنا لا تزغ قلوبنا بعد اذ هيدتنا و هب لنا من لدنك الخ.

Copied in the month Jumâdâ I, A.H. 1176 (A.D. 1762, Nov.-Dec.), at مونكير.

No.1234, ff. 177b-198a, ll. 18 ; Naskhî ; size, 8 in. by 43/8 in.