Prayers and Charms [IO Islamic 2349] اوراد فتحیه

Prayers and charms.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2349 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 368 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

368.

2349. Size 61/2 in. by 31/2 in.; foll. 16. Eleven lines in a page.

Forms of prayer, called أوراد فتحية; beginning with the words استغفرالله العظیم, which are thrice repeated, and concluding (fol. 12) with a short prayer, which commences:

اللهم یا مالک الرقاب

In an edition of these prayers, published at Lakhnau, A.H. 1257, the author is called SAIYID ‘ALÎ HAMADÂNÎ (d. A.H. 786 [=1385 CE]); and this would agree with the brief statement of Ḥ. Kh. i. 492. Cf. [Charles] Stewart’s Catal. 176, and Cat. Lugd. iv. 341.

Well written, with all the vowels. Dated “A.H. 81” (i.e. 1181?).

The last two pages contain an enumeration of the names of God, added by a different hand. It begins:

هو الله الذی لا اله الا هو

[College of Fort William.]

[ed note: Quick link to other works by Hamadānī]