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¶ § 924. Aristotle died at Chalcis in Euboea in 322 bc (see Ency. Brit., etc.).

Kitāb al-tuffāḥah, a pseudo-Aristotelian work no longer apparently extant in Arabic (cf. Brockelmann Sptbd. i p. 373).

Persian translation: The Book of the apple … Edited in Persian and English by D.S. Margoliouth (in jras. 1892 pp. 187–252).

§ 925. Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusain b. ʿAbd Allāh Ibn Sīnā died at Hamadān in 428/1037 (see pl. ii no. 4 and Add. ad loc., etc).

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Risālah fī ’l-nafs, or Risālah fī ’l-maʿād, or Kitāb al-maʿād in Arabic: see Brockelmann i p. 455, Sptbd. i p. 817 ult.

Persian translation or translations: Tarjamah i Risālah i nafs (beg. in Mas̲h̲had C̲h̲unīn gūyad muṣannif i īn risālah kih farmān i pādshāh), in sixteen faṣls: Mas̲h̲had iv p. 147 no. 707 (25 foll. ah 700/1301), Rieu ii 439 a v (ah 1182/1768 (title: T. i. Risālat al-maʿād li ’l-S̲h̲aik̲h̲ al-Raʾīs).

Edition: Risālah i rawān-s̲h̲ināsī:¹ Tihrān ahs 1315/1936–7 (with an introductory biography of Ibn Sīnā by Maḥmūd S̲h̲ihābī. Mas̲h̲had iv p. 315).

Shorter version (beg. al-Ḥ. l. R. al-ʿā.) in sixteen bābs: Rieu ii 439 a vi (ah 1182/1768), probably also Bodleian 1422 (2).

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al-Is̲h̲ārāt wa-’l-tanbīhāt, in Arabic: see Brockelmann i p. 454 (20), Sptbd. i p. 816 (20).

Persian translations:

(a) [the second or metaphysical part] (Tarjamah i Is̲h̲ārāt) (beg. Sp. ān K̲h̲udāy-rā kih āfrīdgār i jahān ast): Rieu ii 438 a (ah 1182/1768).

(b) Tarjamah i Is̲h̲ārāt [Ṭabīʿīyāt and Ilāhīyāt], by an unknown author: D̲h̲arīʿah iv p. 78 no. 333, Tihrān ahs 1316/1937–8 (with introduction by S. Ḥasan Mus̲h̲kān Ṭabasī. Mas̲h̲had iv p. 291).

§ 926. Fak̲h̲r al-Dīn M. b. ʿUmar al-Rāzī died at Harāt in 606/1209 (see pl. ii no. 87, etc.).

Rūḥīyah, or R. dar ḥaqīqat i marg u aḥwāl i rūḥ (beg. Ḥ. u sp. i farāwān bi-ʿadad i sitārah i āsmān (so Mas̲h̲had iv 734) or al-Ḥ. l. R. al-ʿā. (so Mas̲h̲had i, fṣl. 2, mss., no. 109)), in ten faṣls, said to have been composed in answer to a king’s letter of condolence on the death of the author’s son: Mas̲h̲had iv p. 155 no. 734 (2 foll.).

¶ § 927. Afḍal al-Dīn M. b. al-Ḥasan Kās̲h̲ī died in 666/1268 (see pl. iv no. 819 supra).

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Tarjamah i Risālah i nafs: Mas̲h̲had iv p. 46 nos. 402 (42 foll.), 403.

Edition: Tihran ahs 1316/1937–8 (with introduction by Malik al-s̲h̲uʿarāʾ “Bahār”. Mas̲h̲had iv p. 296).

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Risālah dar ʿilm i Wājib (beg. al-Ḥ. l. R. al-ʿā.): Mas̲h̲had iv p. 138 no. 682 (10 foll. ah 1273/1856–7).

§ 928. K̲h̲wājah Naṣīr al-Dīn M. b. M. b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī died at Bag̲h̲dād in 672/1274 (see pl. ii no. 10 with Add. ad loc., no. 91, etc.).

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Risālah i ( Jabr u ik̲h̲tiyār) or ( Jabr u qadar) (beg. al-Ḥ. l. Rabb al-arbāb wa-Musabbib al-asbāb wa-Mufattiḥ al-abwāb wa-Mulhim al-ṣawāb wa-Musahhil al-umūr), in ten short chapters: D̲h̲arīʿah v p. 83 no. 325, Bānkīpūr Suppt. ii 2135 (ah 1080/1669), Mas̲h̲had iv p. 121–2 nos. 627–9 (627 dated 1087/1676), Ethé 2214 (1) (ah 1127/1715), Rieu ii 830 b xxi (18th cent.), Āṣafīyah ii p. 1732 no. 31 (1), Āyā Ṣōfyah 2048 (2), Bodleian 1422 (7).

Edition: 1315/1897–8 (in Majmūʿah i kalimāt al-muḥaqqiqīn. See D̲h̲arīʿah, loc. cit.).

Arabic version: Mas̲h̲had iv p. 121 no. 626. Cf. iv p. 215 n.

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(Risālah i Aqsām i maujūdāt) (beg. Qāla maulānā Sulṭān al-ḥukamāʾ … Nauʿ i awwal andar qismat i maujūdāt u aqsām i ān ba-nazdīk i ʿulamā az dū gūnah ast): Rieu ii 833 b ult. (foll. 72–78. Late 17th cent.), Ethé 1922 (23).

§ 929. Ismāʿīl b. M. al-Tabrīzī.

Ḥayāt al-nufūs, composed in the time of Atābak Yūsuf S̲h̲āh b. Alp Arsalān Arg̲h̲ūn [of Luristān, circ. 673–87/1274–88] and divided into three fanns ((1) manṭiq, (2) masāʾil i ṭabʿī, (3) masāʾil i ilāhī): Āṣafīyah iii p. 492 no. 370 (Fanns ii–iii only).

Editions: Delhi (Muṣṭafāʾī) 1291/1874* (324 pp. cf. Mas̲h̲had i, fṣl. 1, ptd. bks., no. 25); Allahabad (Anwār i Aḥmadī) [1926*] (456 pp. Ed. ʿAbd al-Wāsiʿ Jaʿfarī).

§ 930. al-Saiyid al-S̲h̲arīf ʿAlī b. M. al-Jurjānī died in, or about, 816/1413 (see pl. i no. 53, etc.).

Bayān i marātib i maujūdāt, or Risālah i wujūdīyah (beg. Bi-dān … kih aṣḥāb i baḥt̲h̲ u naẓar): Ḥ. K̲h̲. iii pp. 447, 452, Cureton-Rieu p. 191 a no. 403 (2) (ah 860/1456), Rieu ii 864 a (18th cent.), Mas̲h̲had iv p. 149 nos. 713 (15th cent.), 714–15, Berlin 7 (5) (ah 1062/1652), Āṣafīyah ii ¶ p. 1222 no. 246, Aumer 61 foll. 81–85, Aumer Arab. cat. 659 foll. 107–12, Cambridge Trinity R. 13. 45 foll. 40–3 (Palmer p. 107).

Edition: Tihrān 1315/1897–8 (in a majmūʿah entitled Kalimāt al-muḥaqqiqīn. Mas̲h̲had iv p. 342).

Arabic translation: composed in 874/1469–70 or 876/1471–2 by Kamāl al-Dīn al-Naisābūrī: Gotha Arab. cat. iii 1930 (2) (ah 984/1576 (?)), Aumer Arab. cat. 659 foll. 115–121 (modern).

§ 931. Jalāl al-Dīn M. b. Asʿad Ṣiddīqī Dawānī died in 908/1502–3 (see pl. i Add. ad no. 369, end., etc.).

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Bustān al-qulūb (beg. Sp. ān-K̲h̲udāʾī-rā kih bī-wāsiṭah), in two qisms ((1) on the ʿālam i ajsām, (2) on the ʿālam i arwāḥ): Ḥ. K̲h̲. ii p. 51, D̲h̲arīʿah iii p. 107, Mas̲h̲had iv p. 36 no. 380, Nūr i ʿUt̲h̲mānīyah 2285 (?) (described as Arabic).

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Risālah i jabr u ik̲h̲tiyār (beg. Yā Man jabara ’l-k̲h̲alq), dedicated apparently to a certain G̲h̲iyāt̲h̲ al-Dīn: Mas̲h̲had i, fṣl. 2, mss., no. 113 (defective at end. Not later than ah 1067/1657).

§ 932. Qāḍī Mīr Kamāl al-Dīn Ḥusain “Manṭiqī” b. Muʿīn al-Dīn Maibudī Yazdī was put to death by S̲h̲āh Ismāʿīl in 909/1503–4 or 910/1504–5 (see pl. iii no. 436).

Jām i gītī-numā (beg. Sp. Ḥakīmī rā kih afkār i ḥukamā), a metaphysical tract containing, according to Blochet, “les théories des mystiques moyens sur le monde transcendantal et sur les origines des existences mondiales”, completed at S̲h̲īrāz in 897/1492 according to a statement at the end of the work in at least one ms. (see D̲h̲arīʿah v p. 25⁷), ascribed on the title-pages or in the colophons of mss. sometimes (and, it seems, most frequently) to Mīr Ḥusain Maibudī, sometimes to G̲h̲iyāt̲h̲ al-Dīn Manṣūr S̲h̲īrāzī (see pl. ii no. 122, etc.) and sometimes (but without any doubt incorrectly: see D̲h̲arīʿah v p. 26⁷) to Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī, dedicated to a s̲h̲āh-zādah (whose name, not explicitly mentioned, but alluded to in a couplet, was Sirāj al-Dīn Qāsim, i.e. Qāsim Bēg Purnāk Turkamānī [Āq-qoyūnlū], Governor at S̲h̲īrāz 900–6/1495–1501: See D̲h̲arīʿah v p. 26), and divided into a fātiḥah, thirty short maqṣads and a k̲h̲ātimah: Ḥ. K̲h̲. ii p. 499, D̲h̲arīʿah v p. 25 nos. 112, 114, 115, Bodleian iii 2828 (2) (ah 1029/1619), Bodleian 414 (a Laudian ms., therefore not later than 17th cent.), Blochet i 121 (ends with Maqṣad xxvii. European hand. 17th cent.), 122 (Maqṣads i–ix. 17th cent.), Rieu ii 812 b (ends with Maqṣad xxvii. 17th cent. With a Latin translation made apparently in ¶ 1634 by George Strachan, a Scottish friend of Pietro della Valle), Ivanow Curzon 494 (18 foll. 17th cent.), Rehatsek p. 34 no. 64 (ah 1230/1815), Ross & Browne 256 (3) (transcribed from the preceding in 1281/1864), Browne Pers. Cat. 4 (6) (only 26 maqṣads), Suppt. 347 (Queens’ 6), Leningrad Pub. Lib. (Chanykov 154 (c) Univ. 1098 a (Romaskewicz p. 5), Mas̲h̲had iv nos. 441, 442 (defective).

A commentary: S̲h̲arḥ i Jām i gītī-numā fī k̲h̲ulāṣat al-ḥikmah li-l-Maibudī: Asʿad 1924 (see Horn Pers. Hss. p. 316 no. 401).

Arabic and Latin translations: Muk̲h̲taṣar maqāṣid ḥikmat falāsifat al-ʿArab al-musammā Jām i gītī numā. Synopsis propositorum sapientiae Arabum philosphorum inscripta Speculum mundum repraesentans. Ex arabico sermone latini juris facta ab Abrahamo Ecchellensi [Ibrāhīm al-Ḥāqilānī]. Paris 1641° (83 pp. cf. ras. Cat.).

ms. of the Arabic translation: Vatican Arab. cat. 265 (2).

§ 933. Mīr G̲h̲iyāt̲h̲ al-Dīn Manṣūr b. Ṣadr al-Dīn M. Ḥusainī Das̲h̲takī S̲h̲īrāzī died in 948/1541–2 or 949/1542–3 (see pl. ii no. 122, etc.).

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Jām i jahān-numā a philosophical encylopaedia, “which apparently was not completed, and is not mentioned in the notices of the author among his works” (Rieu Suppt. p. 108 b), but of which parts at least are extant, one of them, the first risālah of the third wajh, known as the Ak̲h̲lāq i Manṣūrī, being preserved in several copies (see pl. iv no. 843 supra): Ḥ. K̲h̲. ii p. 499, D̲h̲arīʿah v p. 24 (J. i j-n., with references only to Ḥ. K̲h̲. and the Ḥamīdīyah ms.), i p. 378 (Akh̲lāq i Manṣūrī), Āṣafīyah i p. 808 no. 33 (J. i j-n., by Manṣūr. Calligraphic classified as Riyāḍī), Ḥamīdīyah p. 109 no. 138 (“J. i j-n. wa-g̲h̲airah”, by G̲h̲. al-D. b. [sic] Manṣūr al-Shīrāzī), Madrās i 474 (d) (“al-risālat al-ūlā min al-wajh al-rābiʿ”, a primer of logic 12 pp. n. d.).

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Rūḥīyah (beg. Ḥ. u sp. u s̲h̲. i bī-q. K̲h̲udāwandī-rā kih takwīn): Mas̲h̲had iv p. 156 no. 735 (2 foll.).

§ 934. Mullā Ṣadrā (Ṣadr al-Dīn M. b. Ibrāhīm) S̲h̲īrāzī died in 1050/1640–1 (see Browne Lit. Hist. iv pp. 429–32, Brockelmann ii p. 413, Sptbd. ii p. 588).

Shawāhid al-rubūbīyah, in Arabic: see Browne loc. cit., Brockelmann Sptbd. ii p. 589 (17).

Persian translation: Tarjamah i S̲h̲. al-r., completed in 1245/1829 by Abū ’l-Qāsim Aḥmad Yazdī: Mas̲h̲had iv p. 47 no. 404 (probably autograph).

§ 935. Apparently in the 11th/17th century was composed:

¶ Risālah dar nafs i nāṭiqah (beg. Dar bayān i maʿnī i nafs i nāṭiqah u madārijī kih), in nine bābs: Mas̲h̲had iv p. 147 no. 708 (64 foll.).

§ 936. Qāḍī M. Saʿīd b. M. Mufīd Qummī was born in 1039/1629–30 (Sipahsālār i p. 264) and was still alive in 1103/1691–2 (ibid.).

[Naṣrābādī p. 167 (M. Saʿīd b. Ḥakīm M. Bāqir Qummī); Ātas̲h̲-kadah no. 483 (Ḥakīm Saʿīd K̲h̲ān); Rauḍāt al-jannāt p. 302, l. 8 from foot; Ṭarāʾiq al-ḥaqāʾiq iii p. 72; Brockelmann Sptbd. ii pp. 579, 590; D̲h̲arīʿah i p. 436 no. 2209; Hadīyat al-aḥbāb p. 236; In spite of discrepancies these apparently refer to the same person.]

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Asrār al-ṣanāʾiʿ (beg. Allāhumma anṭiqnī), on the origin, nobility, usefulness, etc., of the five ṣināʿāt i qiyāsīyah, or manṭiqīyah (k̲h̲iṭābah, s̲h̲iʿr, jadal, mug̲h̲ālaṭah, burhān), and the other ṣanāʾiʿ (kalām, fiqh, etc.), based in part on the Ṣināʿīyah of Findariskī: D̲h̲arīʿah ii p. 51, Mas̲h̲had iv p. 17 no. 333 (65 foll. ah 1080/1669–70).

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Kilīd i bihis̲h̲t, on mabdaʾ and maʿād: Tihrān ahs 1315/1936–7 (ed. S.M. Mis̲h̲kāt Bīrjandī from a ms. transcribed in 1085/1675. Mas̲h̲had iv p. 343).

§ 937. ʿImād b. ʿAbd Allāh.

Panjah i āftāb i ʿālam-tāb (beg. Lauḥ i ʿaṭāyā-yi ʿalī-yi ʿaẓīm), on five philosophical questions ((1) kunh i as̲h̲yāʾ, (2) ḥudūt̲h̲ i ʿālam, (3) jabr u ik̲h̲tiyār, (4) ḥusn u qubḥ i as̲h̲yāʾ, (5) waḥdat i wujūd) and one legal question (namāz i jumʿah dar ʿaṣr i g̲h̲aibat) with a k̲h̲ātimah (on the asrār i āfrīnis̲h̲), and an appendix in praise of Mīrzā Badīʿā M. Riḍawī, Mutawallī of the Holy Shrine, who admitted the author thereto in 1090/1679: Mas̲h̲had iv p. 37 no. 383 (71 foll. ah 1088/1677, probably autograph), probably also Āṣafīyah iii p. 202 no. 1496 (Panjah i āftāb: pl. iv no. 693 (64) supra).

§ 938. Ḥasan b. ʿAbd al-Razzāq Lāhijī Qummī died in 1121/1709 (see pl. iv no. 416, 867 supra),

Āʾīnah i ḥikmat (beg. Ḥ. u sp. i bī-ḥ. u q. janāb i kibriyā-yi Ḥakīm), in three bābs: D̲h̲arīʿah i p. 52 (where it is described as a work on the uṣūl al-dīn), Ethé 2204 (foll. 334b–351b), Mas̲h̲had iv p. 1 no. 292 (acephalous).

§ 939. Mīr Qiwām al-Dīn M. Tihrānī was a pupil of Mullā Rajab-ʿAlī Tabrīzī [d. 1080/1669–70: cf. no. 952 (6) infra].

¶ ʿAin al-ḥikmah (beg. S̲h̲. u sp. mar K̲h̲udāʾī-rā kih numūd), in a muqaddamah and ten faṣls: Mas̲h̲had i, fṣl. 1, mss., no. 207 (43 foll.), iv p. 208 no. 898.

§ 940. S. Quṭb al-Dīn M. Ḥusainī Nairīzī S̲h̲īrāzī D̲h̲ahabī died in 1173/1759–60 (Ṭarāʾiq al-ḥaqāʾiq iii p. 98¹⁰).

[al-?] Ifāḍah [al-?] rūḥīyah, an Arabic work on the soul, in three ifāḍahs, Ṭarāʾiq al-ḥaqāʾiq iii p. 98¹²: no mss. recorded?

Persian translation: Tarjamah i Ifāḍah i rūḥīyah, completed in 1330/1912 by Muḥsin “Ḥālī” Ardabīlī: S̲h̲īrāz 1332/1914 (Mas̲h̲had iv p. 291).

§ 941. Rājah Kundan Laʿl “As̲h̲kī” b. Mannūn Laʿl “Falsafī” composed his Zīj i As̲h̲kī in 1231/1816 (see pl. i Add. ad no. 188 [188a]).

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Ḥikmat i Hindīyah: Āṣafīyah ii p. 1220 no. 242.

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Iksīr i saʿādat composed in 1212/1797–8. Edition: place? date? (see Āṣafīyah iii p. 492 (falsafah)).

§ 942. ʿAbd al-ʿAlī M. Anṣārī Lak’hnawī, entitled Baḥr al-ʿulūm, b. Niẓām al-Dīn M. died at Madrās on 12 Rajab 1235/25 april 1820 (see pl. iii no. 260, etc.).

Risālah dar waḥdat i wujūd (Subḥāna ’llāh ’l. yatanazzah), composed at the request of Anwar al-Dīn K̲h̲ān [of the Carnatic: cf. pl. i no. 1083 3rd par.]: Mas̲h̲had iv p. 152 no. 726 (23 foll. ah 1231/1816), [Āṣafīyah i p. 436 nos. 830 (ah 1234/1818–19), 234. For a commentary (?), S̲h̲arḥ i Waḥdat al-wujūd by ʿAbd al-ʿAlī Lak’hnawī, see Āṣafīyah i p. 452 no. 250 (cf. pl. iv no. 681 (2) supra). v. s.].

§ 943. ʿAbd al-ʿAlīm M. Naṣr Allāh K̲h̲ān K̲h̲wēs̲h̲gī K̲h̲ūrjawī died in 1299/1881 (see pl. i nos. 1043, 1219, 1389, 1480, etc.).

Tanwīr i tadābīr, a work composed in 1283/1866–7 and classified as falsafah in the Āṣafīyah catalogue, but without further specification of the subject. Edition: 1285–1868–9 (see Āṣafīyah ii p. 1218, iii p. 492).

§ 944. Āqā ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh Zanūzī Tabrīzī, a Mudarris in the Madrasah i Sipahsālār in Tihrān, died in 1307/1889–90 (according to Mas̲h̲had iv p. 52). Among his works were Sabīl al-ras̲h̲ād fī it̲h̲bāt al-maʿād, in Arabic, on the resurrection of the body (Edition: Tihrān 1310/1892–3: see Mas̲h̲had iv p. 317) and an Arabic commentary on a passage in the Asfār of Ṣadrā (ms.: Mas̲h̲had iv p. 52).

Badāʾiʿ al-ḥikam, answers to philosophical and mystical questions from S̲h̲āh-zādah ʿAlāʾ al-Daulah Badīʿ al-Mulk Mīrzā, completed 1307/1889: D̲h̲arīʿah iii p. 64, Tihrān 1314/1896–7 (Mas̲h̲had iv p. 285).

¶ § 945. ʿAlī Akbar K̲h̲udā-bandah K̲h̲urāsānī (contemp.).

Falsafah i ḥissīyah: Tihrān ahs 1308–13/1929–35 (8 pts. Mas̲h̲had iv p. 335).

§ 946. D̲h̲ukāʾ al-Mulk M. ʿAlī “Furūg̲h̲ī” died on 26–27 November 1942 (see pl. i pp. no. 320 with Add. ad loc., no. 1668 (20), etc.).

Sair i ḥikmat dar Urōpā: Tihrān ahs 1310–20/1931–42 (3 vols. Mas̲h̲had iv pp. 319–20).

§ 947. Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn Durrī (contemp. with author of Mas̲h̲had cat.).

Falsafat al-iʿtimād: Tihrān ahs 1311/1932–3 (Vol. ii, 1st ed. Mas̲h̲had iv p. 334), ahs 1317/1938–9 (Vol. i, 2nd ed. Mas̲h̲had, ibid.).

§ 948. ʿAlī Akbar Ḥāʾirī-zādah Hazārjarībī (contemp. with author of Mas̲h̲had cat.).

Falsafat al-insān, a refutation of materialism and an exposition of the philosophy of Islām: Tihrān 1333/1915 (Mas̲h̲had iv p. 334).

§ 949. Dr. Qāsim G̲h̲anī Sabzawārī (cf. pl. i no. 1238 with Add. ad loc., no. 1491 Add. (1491b)).

Maʿrifat al-nafs, lectures delivered in ahs 1315/1936–7 and 1316/1937–8 at the Preachers’ College (Bungāh i Waʿẓ u K̲h̲iṭābah): Tihrān ahs 1315–16/1937–8 (Mas̲h̲had iv p. 354).

§ 950. Abū ’l-Ḥasan S̲h̲iʿrāʾī Tihrānī (contemp. with author of Mas̲h̲had cat.).

Falsafah i awwalī yā mā baʿd al-ṭabīʿah: Tihrān ahs 1316/1937–8 (Mas̲h̲had iv p. 335).

§ 951. Ḥabīb Allāh Āmūzgār (contemp. with author of Mas̲h̲had cat.) has already been mentioned for his Persian dictionary (pl. iii no. 81).

Falsafah i rūḥī: Tihrān ahs 1318/1939–40 (Vol. i Mas̲h̲had iv p. 335).

§ 952. Appendix

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Jahān-dānis̲h̲ (beg. Ḥ. i bī-ḥ. Ḥakīmī rā bāyad kih hamah az-ū-st), on “natural philosophy” in a muqaddamah, some sections called bak̲h̲s̲h̲ and several called suk̲h̲an, by an anonymous author who mentions as earlier works of his own Natāʾij al-afkār, Risālah i aʿrāḍ, Risālah i Miḥakk al-ʿulūm, Asrār al-ḥikam, Sirr al-kāʾināt, Asrār al-k̲h̲alq wa-’l-ījād, Īqāẓ al-raqadah and Risālah i Insān al-insān: Bānkīpūr Suppt. ii 2281 (21 foll. ʿĀlamgīr’s 43rd year [= 1110–11/1699–1700]).

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¶ Nūr al-fuʾād maʿrūf bah Zād al-maʿād, on metaphysics, by M. Nūr al-Dīn Muḥammadī Ṣiddīqī: Lucknow 1286/1870* (n.k. 92 pp.).

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Rāyāt i ʿāliyāt (beg. in b.m. ms. Rāyat dar bayān i taʿrīf i ḥikmat. Bi-dān-kih dar ak̲h̲lāq i Nāṣirī dar taʿrīf i ḥikmat), a treatise (without preface in the b.m. ms.) on questions of metaphysics and physics, containing extensive extracts from the Ak̲h̲lāq i Nāṣirī (cf. pl. iv no. 820 (1) supra), the Ḥayāt al-nufūs (cf. pl. iv no. 929 supra) & the Gauhar i murād (composed in the reign of S̲h̲āh ʿAbbās ii, ah 1052–77/1642–66) and divided into sections called rāyat: Rieu ii 440 b (180 foll. 18th cent.).

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Risālah dar ḥaqīqat u kaifīyat i silsilah i maujūdāt u tasalsul i asbāb u musabbabāt (beg. wa-lahu ’l-ḥ. dāʾim^an), questions and answers, ascribed to Ibn Sīnā: Mas̲h̲had iv p. 125 no. 643 (3 foll.).

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Risālah fī k̲h̲awāṣṣ al-ajrām wa-funūn ʿilm al-manjanīq:² see Rudiments of natural philosophy.

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Risālah i wujūdīyah (beg…. Qāla ’llāh … Inna ’llāha lā yag̲h̲firu an yus̲h̲raka bihi), in a muqaddamah, five maṭlabs and a k̲h̲ātimah, said in a note on fol. 1a to be by Mullā Rajab-ʿAlī [i.e. probably R-ʿA. “Wāḥid” Tabrīzī, d. 1080/1669–70: See Dānis̲h̲mandān i Ād̲h̲arbāyjān p. 390]: Mas̲h̲had iv p. 151 no. 720 (5 foll. Presented by Nādir S̲h̲āh).

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Rudiments of natural philosophy. Compiled and translated by Lieutenant M. J. Rowlandson. (Risālah fī k̲h̲awāṣṣ al-ajrām wa-funūn ʿilm al-manjanīq³): Madrās 1833°* (88 pp.).

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Zād al-maʿād: see Nūr al-fuʾād (no. (2) above).

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