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§ 781. [K̲h̲wājah] Abū Ḥātim Muẓaffar [b. Ismāʿīl] Isfizārī was, like “K̲h̲aiyām”, and Maimūn b. Najīb Wāsiṭī, one of the astronomers who worked from 467/1074–5 onwards at the computation of Malik-S̲h̲āh’s Jalālī era. In 506/1112–13 he and “K̲h̲aiyām” visited Balk̲h̲ and were met there by Niẓāmī ʿArūḍī, the author of the C̲h̲ahār maqālah.
(See C̲h̲ahār maqālah p. 631, Browne’s trans. p. 71; Tatimmat Ṣiwān al-ḥikmah p. 119, Durrat al-ak̲h̲bār p. 92; Nuzhat al-arwāḥ; Brockelmann Zeitschrift für Semitistik und verwandte Gebiete x (1936) p. 232; Brockelmann Sptbd. i p. 856; Krause p. 483.)
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(Āt̲h̲ār i ʿulwī) (beg…. miyān i aqrān i k̲h̲wīs̲h̲ manẓūr s̲h̲awand … Ḥakīmān c̲h̲unīn guftah and kih maujūdāt i ʿālam), dedicated to Niẓām al-Dīn Fak̲h̲r al-Mulk Abū ’l-Fatḥ Muẓaffar b. Qiwām al-Dīn and divided into three bābs: Tihrān “Dih-K̲h̲udā’s” private library (see the editor’s introduction, p. yā-zāy), Mas̲h̲had iv p. 218 no. 926 (very defective).
The whole of this work except the preface is incorporated (with due acknowledgment) in the faṣl dar āt̲h̲ār i ʿulwī of S̲h̲ah-mardān Rāzī’s encyclopaedia Nuzhat-nāmah i ʿAlāʾī (see Āt̲h̲ār i ʿulwī, editor’s introduction p. yā-bā), and the old mss. of that work are the oldest authorities for the text.
Edition: Risālah i Āt̲h̲ār i ʿulwī yā Kāʾināt i jaww … bi-taṣḥīḥ i Mudarris i Riḍawī, Tihrān a.h.s. 1319/1940‡ (S̲h̲irkat i ṭabʿ i Kitāb. Pp. xix, 52).
¶ § 782. [S̲h̲araf al-Dīn] M. b. Masʿūd al-Masʿūdī has already been mentioned (pl. ii § 89) as the author of the Jahān-dānis̲h̲ completed in 643/1246 [?].
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(Risālah dar maʿrifat i ʿanāṣir u kāʾināt al-jaww,) (beg. Minnat K̲h̲udāy rā kih mabdaʾ i ʿuqūl u arwāḥ ast u hast kunandah i ajsām u as̲h̲bāḥ), in a muqaddamah and thirteen bābs, of which the last four deal respectively with the causes of wind, earthquakes, springs and minerals: D̲h̲arīʿah i p. 8 ult., Mas̲h̲had S̲h̲. ʿAlī Akbar Nihāwandī (ah 1133/1720–1. D̲h̲arīʿah, loc. cit.), Kapūrt’halah (see M. S̲h̲afī”s description in ocm. iii/4 (August 1927) p. 6).
Edition: in ocm iv/3 (Lahore, May 1928) pp. 31–91, edited by M. S̲h̲afīʿ).
§ 783. For the causes of wind, cloud, rain, thunder, etc., see the Dānis̲h̲-nāmah i jahān of G̲h̲iyāt̲h̲ al-Dīn ʿAlī b. ʿAlī Amīrān Ḥusainī Iṣfahānī (pl. ii § 595).
§ 784. To S̲h̲āh ʿAbbās (ah 996–1038/1587–1629) was dedicated: (Risālah dar s̲h̲ināk̲h̲t i kāʾināt i jaww u ṭabaqāt i hawā u k̲h̲āk) (beg. Ḥamdī az qaṭarā i bārān afzūn), in a muqaddamah, three bābs and a tad̲h̲nīb: Majlis i 621 (3).
§ 785. M. Taqī b. Ḥusain b. Jamāl al-Dīn Māzandarānī flourished in the reign of a Quṭb-S̲h̲āh of Golconda (possibly ʿAbd Allāh Quṭb-S̲h̲āh, ah 1035–83/1626–72].
- Lamaʿāt i Quṭb-S̲h̲āhī (beg. Zībātarīn zībī), on prognostications of rain, snow, clouds of various colours, eclipses, etc.: Rehatsek p. 122 no. 16 (3) (foll. 72–89. ah 1231/1816), Ross and Browne 244 (3) (foll. 18–21. Transcribed from the preceding ms. in 1280/1864).
§ 786. M. ʿAlī “Ḥazīn” Jilānī was born at Iṣfahān in 1103/1692 and died at Benares in 1180/1766 (see pl. i § 1150, pl. ii § 796).
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- Jām i Jam, fī bayān al-mawālīd al-t̲h̲alāt̲h̲ah wa-kāʾināt al-jaww: D̲h̲arīʿah v p. 23 penult, (where a ms. in private possession at Mas̲h̲had is mentioned).
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- ¶ (Risālah i kāʾināt i jaww) (beg. Sp. u st. mar K̲h̲udāy-rā jalla s̲h̲aʾnuhu), a short tract composed in the author’s old age: Ivanow 1778 (1) (foll. 242–9. Early 19th cent.).
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ʿAnāṣir al-ḥawādit̲h̲, (on meteorology?), by Mīrzā Ḥasan Jauzā [Mus̲h̲ār adds Maḥallātī].
Edition: Bombay (according to Mus̲h̲ār] 1298/1881 (Āṣafīyah ii p. 1224 no. 305. Cf. Browne Press and poetry p. 163 (126), where the work is said to be “on the Science of the new Natural Philosophy, with something about Magic”; Mus̲h̲ār i 1135).
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- Ārbaʿ ʿanāṣir: Āṣafīyah ii p. 1220 no. 280 (corrected in 1028/1619. Classified as Falsafah, but without indication of the subject).
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- al-Ḥawādit̲h̲ al-ṭabīʿīyah (beg. Bihtarīn d̲h̲ikrī-kih), by ʿAbd al-g̲h̲affār b. Isḥāq: D̲h̲arīʿah vii p. 94 ult., Mas̲h̲had (ah 985/1577–8. Not in the published catalogue?)
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- Risālah dar bāb i maṭar: ʿAlīgaṛh Subḥ. mss. p. 23 no. 26.
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- Risālah dar bayān i junbīdan i zamīn: Leningrad Univ. 984b (ah 1191/1777. Romaskewicz p. 9).
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- Risālah dar ḥawādit̲h̲ i ṭabīʿīyah (beg. Bihtarīn d̲h̲ikrī), by ʿAbd al-g̲h̲affār b. Isḥāq: Mas̲h̲had i, fṣl. 1, no. 135 (41 foll. ah 985/1577–8).
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- Risālah i bāris̲h̲-paimā: Āṣafīyah i p. 810 no. 161.
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- Taḥqīq i kāʾināt i jaww, by M. Ṭālis̲h̲: Tihrān a.h.s. 1321/1942–3 (23 pp. Mus̲h̲ār i 374).
