Prayers and Charms [IO Islamic 2349] اوراد فتحیه

<strong>Prayers and charms</strong><strong>.</strong> <strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2349 </strong><strong>in the India Office collections.</strong> <strong>[metadata:</strong> <strong>Otto Loth, </strong><strong><em>A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</em>, (volume 1), no. 368 here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>. 368. 2349. Size 6^1/2 in. by 3^1/2 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” (<em>i.e.</em> 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.] [<strong>ed note</strong>: Quick link to other works by Hamadānī]