[IO Islamic 2141] Tadhkirat-alaḥwâl

Tadhkirat-alaḥwâl.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 677 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 2141 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Tadhkirat-alaḥwâl (تذكرة الاحوال ) .

The autobiography of Shaikh Muḥammad ‘Alî Ḥazîn, who was born in Iṣfahân, in Rabî’-althânî, A.H. 1103 (A.D. 1691, December, to 1692, January), and died in Banâras, A.H. 1180 (A.D. 1766). He wrote this account of his life in A.H. 1154 (A.D. 1741), see fol. 159a, l. 7.

Beginning: نحمده و نسأله التقى و نعتصم بعروة الوثقى و نصلّى على سيّدنا المصطفى و آله الخ .

The above title is found in Rieu i. p. 372. Other titles, given to this book, are تذكرۀ شیخ محمّد على حزين , in Bodleian Cat., No. 383; تأريخ احوال شيخ حزين , in A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 141; and حالات شيخ على حزين , on the fly-leaf of this copy. An English translation of it was published by F.C. Belfour, London, 1830; the Persian text by the same, London, 1831.

Dated the 8th of Rabî’-alawwal, A.H. 1227 (A.D. 1812, March 23), at Lucknow, by پيدرو شوير بوتيس عيسوى بن فراسيكو شوير بوتيس , who copied it for مشتر ( ! ) بيلونهرى . College of Fort William, 1825.

No. 2141, ff. 1-160, ll. 11; large Nasta’lîḳ; size, 91/4 in. by 61/8 in.