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§ 866. Buzurgmihr, the celebrated sage who was Wazīr to K̲h̲usrau Anūs̲h̲irwān (ad 531–79).

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¶ Fāl-nāmah i k̲h̲usrawī (beg. Bi-dān … kih B. īn fāl rā [az] zabān i ʿArabī u Pahlawī u Turkī barāy i Nūs̲h̲īrwān i ʿĀdil), metrical: Bānkīpūr xvii 1616 (foll. 101–8. 19th cent.).

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Ḍamīr i k̲h̲usrawānī, metrical [possibly identical with the preceding]: Rieu ii 801a (foll. 122–5. ah 884/1480).

§ 867. al-S̲h̲aik̲h̲ al-Akbar Muḥyī ’l-Dīn. M. b. ʿAlī b. M. Ibn ʿArabī died at Damascus in 638/1240 (see Brockelmann i p. 441, Sptbd. i p. 790; etc.). To him is attributed:

al-Qurʿat al-mubārakah al-maimūnah wa-’l-durrat al-t̲h̲amīnat al-maṣūnah, tables for divination: [Cairo, I860?deg;]; 1279/1862°; Bombay 1300/1883° (see Ellis ii col. 175a, Brockelmann Sptbd. i p. 801⁸).

Persian translation: al-Qurʿat al-maimūnah yaʿnī Fāl-nāmah i S̲h̲aik̲h̲ i Akbar, prepared by Muns̲h̲ī Ḥabīb Allāh: Lahore [1912*] (Rozbazar Steam Press. 32 pp.).

§ 868. In 1019/1610 was composed, evidently for the Emperor Jahāngīr:

Fāl-nāmah¹ (beg. Farhang i kitāb i nūr i ḍamīr), predictions arranged under the names of Jahāngīr, his sons Parwēz, K̲h̲urram and K̲h̲usrau, and various courtiers: Bānkīpūr xi 1070 (129 foll. 1159 Faṣlī [ah 1166/1753?]), Lahore Panjāb Univ. (60 foll. ad 1876. See ocm. x/3 p. 106 no. 26).

§ 869. Appendix

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Fāl i haft kawākib, metrical: Ivanow Curzon 673 (foll. 89–92. 19th cent.).

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Fāl-nāmah: for some Qurʾānic fāl-nāmahs see pl. i § 96.

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Fāl-nāmah, a table of numbers from 1 to 70 with the auguries connected with them, ascribed to Mīrzā Muḥyī ’l-Dīn: Ivanow 1st Suppt. 915 (4 foll. Early 19th cent.).

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Fāl-nāmah, prepared, according to the preface, for Hārūn al-Ras̲h̲īd (!): Bodleian 1906, fol. 7b sqq.

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Fāl-nāmah (beg. al-Ḥ. l. ’l. lam yazal wa-lā yazāl² wa-lā yatag̲h̲aiyar ʿan al-ḥāl), composed by Nāṣir b. M. b. Ḥaidar (cf. pl. ii § 856 (21)) at the request of an ʿAlawī prince, Ḥusain b. ʿAlī, on the model of a work by ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAlī Ritātī [sic?] and divided into two parts, ʿamalī and ʿilmī [ʿilmī and ʿamalī?], the first in eleven and the second in twenty-two sections: Mehren p. 12 no. 27 (4).

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Fāl-nāmah, metrical, in 24 strophes of four hemistichs each: Leyden iii p. 186 no. 1246.

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¶ Fāl-nāmah (beg. Chunīn āwardand saʿd u naḥs Bārī- taʿālā farmūdah ast): Bodleian 1566 (2) (foll. 37–43. N.d.).

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Fāl-nāmah (beg. al-Ḥ. l….. Bi-dān-kih waffaqaka ’llāh taʿālā kih īn risālah i fāl-nāmah az kalām i majīd u farmān i ḥamīd i S̲h̲aik̲h̲ al-Mas̲h̲āyik̲h̲ al-akram), in 29 short qiṭʿahs each dealing with one letter of the alphabet and the first beginning Alif āmad ba-fālat ai dil-afrūz: Bodleian 1566 (1) (foll. 31–6. N.d.).

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Fāl-nāmah az dīwān i Ḥāfiẓ (beg. Ḥ. i ʿĀlīm al-g̲h̲aibī kih dānā-yi maṭālib), Ethé 2809 (16 foll. N.d.).

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Fāl-nāmah i buzurg: Leningrad Mus. Asiat. (see Mélanges asiatiques ii (St. Petersburg 1852–6) p. 55).

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Fāl-nāmah i jafr (beg. al-Ḥ. l. ’l. k̲h̲. al-insān … wa-’l-t̲h̲. l-il-K̲h̲āliq ’l. maraja ’l-baḥrain), in a muqaddamah and four faṣls, by ʿIwaḍ G̲h̲āzī: Upsala Zetterstéen 393 (1) (16 foll.).

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Fāl-nāmah [i paig̲h̲ambarān] (beg. Bi-dān-kih īn fāl-nāmah īst kih ustādān qarār dādah ba-asāmī i janāb i paig̲h̲ambarān): Rieu ii 487b (25 foll. ah 1225/1810).

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Fāl-nāmah i Sulṭānī (beg. Īn nusk̲h̲ah kih dar jahān na-dārad t̲h̲ānī * … Agar kasī k̲h̲wāhad kih fāl gus̲h̲āyad), some circles followed by twenty-four pieces of verse, each headed with the name of a prophet or other holy man (Abū Bakr, ʿUmar, etc.) and consisting usually of ten verses (the first beginning Nīkū buwad ibtidāʾ i har kār turā *): Leningrad Institut (Rosen 108 (3) foll. 140–31 ah 1262/1846).

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