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§ 828. Jaʿfar al-Sādiq b. M. al-Bāqir, the sixth of the Twelve Imāms, died at al-Madīnah in 148/765 (see Ency. Isl. new ed. under D̲j̲aʿfar al-Ṣādiḳ; Brockelmann Sptbd. i p. 104, pl. ii §§ 828, 862, etc.).

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al-Jafr al-jāmiʿ.

Arabic commentary (or exposition ?): Ḥaqāʾiq al-ḥurūf wa-daqāʾiq al-zubur wa-’l-baiyināt (“fīhi ḥall al-J. al-j. al-maʾk̲h̲ūd̲h̲ ʿan al-Imām al-Ṣādiq”, D̲h̲arīʿah iii p. 97 no. 454), by Mīr Aḥmad Gīlānī: no mss.?

Persian translation: Tarjamah i Ḥ. al-ḥ. wa-d. al-z. wa-’l-b., by the commentator’s grandson, S.M. b. M. Kāẓimīyah (?), Ḥusainīyah (ah 1252/1836–7. D̲h̲arīʿah iii p. 97).

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(K̲h̲āfiyah i jafr i jāmiʿ) Ethé 2274 (beg. Ibtidāʾ i kitāb i K̲h̲āfiyah i j. i j. u īn kitāb muḥaqqaq ast u mansūb-ast ba-ḥaḍrat i Imām J. i Ṣ. 37 foll. N.d.), Cairo p. 514 (beg. Ibtidā-yi k. i K̲h̲āfiyah i J. i Ṣ.).

¶ § 829. K̲h̲wājah Sāʾin al-Dīn ʿAlī Turkah Iṣfahānī died on 14 D̲h̲ū ’l-Ḥijjah 835/12 August 1432.

K̲h̲awāṣṣ al-ḥurūf (beg. Ḥ. i bī-nihāyat ḥaḍrat i Bārī rā kih ʿain i baṣīrat), dedicated to Amīr-zādah Muʿizz al-Dīn Bāysung̲h̲ur b. S̲h̲āh-Ruk̲h̲ and divided into a muqaddimah, two waṣls and a k̲h̲ātimah: Tabriz Sulṭān al-Qurrāʾī’s library (D̲h̲arīʿah) vii p. 272 no. 1317).

§ 830. Ḥabīb Allāh b. Sāʾin al-Dīn Turkah flourished presumably in the 9th/15th century, since his father, a well-known Ṣūfī, died in 835/1432.

Qawāʿid i jafr i jāmiʿ (beg. Sp. u st. K̲h̲udāwandī rā kih ba-ras̲h̲ḥaʾī az baḥr i wujūd): Bodleian 1298 (48).

§ 831. The anonymous author of the Mā ḥaṣal was a contemporary of S̲h̲araf al-Dīn Yazdī (who died in 858/1454: see pl. i § 356).

Mā ḥaṣal (beg. St. i mā-lā-yuḥṣā u sp. i dar g̲h̲āyat i aqṣā): de Jong (Batavia) p. 236 no. 182 (15) (pp. 300–33. ah 860/1456).

§ 832. G̲h̲iyāt̲h̲ al-Dīn ʿAlī b. ʿAlī Amīrān al-Ḥusainī al-Iṣfahānī (cf. pl. ii §§ 22, 110).

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Asrār al-ḥurūf (beg. Tā sulṭān i nāṭiqah i insān), composed in 870/1465–6 for Prince Abū Bakr, the son of Abū Saʿīd Mīrzā Gurkānī: Āṣafīyah ii p. 1674 no. 273 (ah 1023/1614), Browne Pers. cat. 133 (2).

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K̲h̲awāṣṣ-nāmah i asmāʾ: Āṣafīyah ii p. 1674 no. 273 (ah 1023/1614).

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Maṭālib al-ḥurūf: Āṣafīyah ii p. 1676 no. 273 (ah 1023/1614).

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Maṭlūb-nāmah: Āṣafīyah ii p. 1694 no. 273 (ah 1023/ 1614).

§ 833. Jalāl al-Dīn M. b. Asʿad al-Ṣiddīqī al-Dawānī died in 908/ 1502–3.

Tuḥfah i rūḥanī (beg. Jawāhir i ḥ. u t̲h̲ār i bārgāh i kibriyāʾ i ḥaḍrat i ʿAllām al-g̲h̲uyūbī kih), on baʿḍ az aḥkām u k̲h̲awāṣṣ i ḥurūf i.e. the significance of the letters in the occult sciences, especially astrology, in a muqaddimah, several faṣls and a k̲h̲ātimah: D̲h̲arīʿah iii p. 473 no. 1587, Berlin 5 (1) (ah 1051/ 1641).

§ 834. ʿAlī b. Ḥusain Kās̲h̲ifī, who died in 939/1532–3 (see pl. i § 1277), is the author to whom the Ḥirz al-amān is usually ascribed. It should be noted, however, that a work of this title occurs in a list of works by Ḥasan b. Rūzbihān S̲h̲īrāzī quoted by Blochet (ii 769) from the preface to his Dastūr al-salṭanah.

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Ḥirz al-amān min fitan [Ḥ. K̲h̲. add āk̲h̲ir] al-zamān (beg. al-Ḥ. l. ’l. anzala ’l-Kitāba mus̲h̲tamil^an ʿalā g̲h̲arāʾibi k̲h̲awāṣṣi ḥurūfihi), on the k̲h̲awāṣṣ of the letters of the alphabet, the Asmāʾ i ḥusnā, the verses and the sūrahs of the Qurʾān, in five maqālahs, each subdivided into five bābs: Ḥ. K̲h̲. iii p. 43, D̲h̲arīʿah vi p. 392, Lindesiana p. 120 no. 676 (circ. ad 1780), Ivanow ¶ Curzon 656 (ah 1234/1819?), Āṣafīyah i p. 56 no. 150, Ḥakīmog̲h̲lū ʿAlī 453.

Edition: Lucknow (ʿAlawī Pr.) 1290/1873* (290 pp.).

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Marṣad i asnā fī ’stik̲h̲rāj [al-]asmāʾ al-ḥusnā: Bombay [1893°] (60 pp.); place? 1323/1905 (Āṣafīyah ii p. 1680 no. 188).

§ 835. M. b. Maḥmūd al-mulaqqab bi- Dihdār “Fānī” S̲h̲īrāzī, who is said to have died at Sūrat in 1016/1607–8, has alread been mentioned as the author of a ḥās̲h̲iyah on the Nafaḥāt al-uns (pl. i § 1274, Commentaries).

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Jāmiʿ al-fawāʾid, fī ʿilm al-ḥurūf: D̲h̲ārīʿah v p. 67 no. 263 (ms. seen at Najaf).

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Jawāhir al-asrār, fī ’l-jafr al-manqūl ʿan al-Aʾimmat al-Aṭhār, abridged from the d̲h̲ak̲h̲āʾir al-asmāʾ of S. Kamāl al-Dīn Ḥusain al-Ak̲h̲lāṭī and divided into a fātiḥah, five faṣls and a k̲h̲ātimah, each rule being given first in prose with the heading taḥrīr and then in verse with the heading taqrīr: D̲h̲arīʿah v p. 262 no. 1260.

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Mafātīḥ al-mag̲h̲ālīq (beg. (in Blochet ii 905) Ammā baʿd al-ḥ. wa-’l-ṣ. ʿalā ’l-Nabī wa-ālihi ʿalaihim al-s. Īn risālah mus̲h̲tamil ast bar muqaddimah u duwāzdah faṣl …), on the asrār al-ḥurūf (according to ocm. x/3 p. 107) composed in 976/ 1568–9 and divided into a muqaddimah, twelve bābs and a k̲h̲ātimah: ʿAlīgaṛh Subḥ. mss. p. 24 no. 15 (a.h. 976/1568–9), Āṣafīyah ii p. 1680 no. 177 (ah 1069/1658–9), Blochet ii 905 (137 foll. late 17th cent.), Lahore Panjāb Univ. (ah 1185/1771–2. See ocm. x/3 (May 1934) p. 107 no. 30).

Abridgment: K̲h̲ulāṣah i M. al-m.: ʿAlīgaṛh Subḥ. mss. p. 24 no. 23 (a manuscript addition to the printed catalogue).

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Maqṣad al-aqṣā, known as (mas̲h̲hūr bah) Alwāḥ al-basṭ: Āṣafīyah ii p. 1682 no. 168.

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Miftāḥ al-istik̲h̲rāj az Jafr i jāmīʿ, a Persian explanation by Dihdār of al-Jafr al-jāmiʿ wa-’l-nūr al-lāmiʿ, Arabic divinatory tables with a key alleged to have been dictated by the Prophet to ʿAlī.

Edition: Bombay 1308/1890° (K. al-j. al-j wa-’l-n. al-l. Pp. iv, 36, 31).

Mant̲h̲ūr u manẓūm Risālah i jafr, “a treatise on making charms and amulets in verse and prose”, described in the b.m. catalogue as by Abū Muḥammad Naʿīm and in the Āṣafīyah catalogue (ii p. 1682 no. 163) as by Abū M. Naʿīm Dihdār Iʿyāʾī, apparently a corruption of the name M. b. Maḥmūd Dihdār Al-Fānī; place? 1282 [perhaps a misprint for 1882]. (Āṣafīyah ii p. 1682 no. 163); Cawnpore 1879° (224 pp.); place? 1882 (Āṣafīyah iii p. 710).

¶ § 836. Farīd al-Dīn Masʿūd ibn Ḥāfiẓ Ibrāhīm Dihlawī, Court Astronomer to S̲h̲āh-Jahān, died in 1039/1629 (see pl. ii § 133).

Uṣūl i kas̲h̲f al-ras̲h̲f fī ʿilm al-jāmiʿ bain al-ʿadad wa-’l-ḥarf (beg. Ḥurūf u kalimāt i bī-ḥadd u marātib i ḥisāb u ʿadd), “on Cabbalism”, written by order of the K̲h̲ān i K̲h̲ānān ʿAbd al-Raḥīm K̲h̲ān (for whom see pl. i § 698 (3)) and divided into four aṣls, eight ras̲h̲ fs and one kas̲h̲ f: Bānkīpūr Suppt. ii 2053 (foll. 139b–207a. 19th cent.).

§ 837. M. Munawwar b. ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn [b. Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn K̲h̲ān Jafrī Anṣārī] flourished in the reign of Aurangzēb (ah 1069–1119/ 1659–1707). He is apparently the father who according to the author of the Asrār al-jafr (see § 838, infra) was asked by both S̲h̲āh-Jahān and Aurangzēb for predictions concerning the future of the dynasty.

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Muntak̲h̲ab al-istik̲h̲rāj: Lahore Panjāb Univ. (see ocm. x/3 (May 1934) p. 107 no. 28 (10)).

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(Risālah i jafr): Lahore Panjāb Univ. (see ocm. x/3 p. 107 no. 28 (1)).

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(Risālah i jafr): Lahore Panjāb Univ. (see ocm. x/3 p. 107 no. 28 (4)).

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(Risālah i jafr): Lahore Panjāb Univ. (see ocm. x/3 p. 107 no. 28 (5)).

§ 838. Abū Ṣāliḥ Muʿīn al-Dīn M. Munʿim b. S̲h̲. Jaʿfar [sic] al-Aʿdādī, as he is called in Bkp. Spt. ii 2048 (A.Ṣ.M. al-D.M. Munʿim in ʿAlīgaṛh Subḥ. mss. p. 24) is apparently the same person as M. Munʿim b. S̲h̲. Munawwar b. S̲h̲. ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn b. Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn K̲h̲ān Jafrī Anṣārī (Āṣafīyah ii p. 1680 no. 166) and M. Muʿīn [sic] b. M. Munawwar (ocm. x/3 p. 107). In the Asrār al-jafr he mentions that his father [evidently M. Munawwar b. ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn, for whom see § 837, supra] was asked for predictions both by S̲h̲āh-Jahān (ah 1037–69/1628–59) and by Aurangzēb (ah 1069–1119/1659–1707), whom he speaks of as dead.

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Asrār al-jafr (beg. Ḥ. u sp. i Qadirī kih qulūb i ʿālamiyān rā): Bānkīpūr Suppt. ii 2048 (foll. 7a–72a. ah 1235/1820), Lahore Panjāb Univ. (see ocm. x/3 p. 107 no. 28 (7)).

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Masrūr¹ al-jafr: ʿAlīgaṛh Subḥ. mss. p. 24 no. 16.

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Qawānīn al-jafr: Āṣafīyah ii p. 1680 nos. 166, 167.

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(Risālah i jafr), by “M. Muʿīn b. M. Munawwar”: Lahore Panjab Univ. (see ocm. x/3 p. 107 no. 28 (6).

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(Risālah i jafr): by “M. Muʿīn b. M. Munawwar”: Lahore Panjāb Univ. (see ocm. x/3 p. 107 no. 28 (8).

¶ § 839. Ḥasan ʿAlī Ras̲h̲tī died on 27 S̲h̲aʿbān 1264/29 July 1848 (according to a note on the Bānkīpūr ms.).

(Risālah i jafr) (beg. Ḥ. u sp. Parwardgārī-rā sazā-st kih ẓurūf i ḥurūf u niqāt u kalimāt rā mustaqarr), written as a key to the Jāmiʿ i Murtaḍawī and divided into a muqaddimah and several faṣls: Bānkīpūr Suppt. ii 2049 (foll. 73b–88b).

§ 840. Abū ’l-Qāsim, surnamed (al-mulaqqab bi-) Fānī, b. M. Ṣādiq Tabrīzī lived in the reign of Nāṣir al-Dīn S̲h̲āh.

Badāʾiʿ al-ʿulūm wa-kanz al-rumūz, fī ʿilm al-ḥurūf wa-’l-aʿdād: Tabrīz 1300/1883 (D̲h̲arīʿah iii p. 65).

§ 841. Appendix

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Aḥkām al-jafr: by Mīr M. ʿAbbās Dihlawī (so Āṣafīyah. Cf. no. 4, below), or M. Mīr ʿAbbās Dihlawī (so Edwards and Arberry).

Editions: Delhi 1869°* (16 pp.); place? 1872 (Āṣafīyah ii p. 1678 no. 186).

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(Asrār al-ḥurūf) (beg. Dar ḥadīt̲h̲ i qudsī Ḥaḍrat i ʿIzzat mī-farmāyad kih Laulāka la-mā k̲h̲alaqtu ’l-aflāka), an anonymous work in which the sections begin with the words Aknūn ai ṭālib: Aumer 333 (53 foll. Not later than ad 1639).

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Ḥall al-maqāṣid al-jāmiʿ li-g̲h̲arāʾib al-asrār wa-’l-fawāʾid, by Muʿīn al-Dīn ʿAbd Allāh S̲h̲īrāzī (presumably identical with M. ʿAbd Allāh Muʿīn, author of the Nādir al-raml (see pl. ii § 856 (32)).

Edition: Bombay (Āṣafīyah ii p. 1678 no. 185).

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Intik̲h̲āb al-jafr, by Mīr M. ʿAbbās Dihlawī (cf. no. 1, above): [Delhi] Nāṣirī Pr. 1870* (16 pp.).

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Jafr al-jāmiʿ al-muʿaẓẓam u qawāʿid i raml i aʿẓam: Lucknow (date? ʿAllawī Pr. See ʿAlīgaṛh Subḥ. ptd. bks. p. 44).

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al-Jafr al-Ṣiddīqī, in a muqaddimah, two bābs and twelve faṣls, by M. b. G̲h̲ulām-ʿAlī Ras̲h̲tī: D̲h̲arīʿah v p. 121 no. 491 (no mss. mentioned).

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Jāmiʿ al-jafr. Commentary: S̲h̲arḥ i Jāmi‘ al-jafr: Āṣafīyah ii p. 1680 no. 172 (defective).

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Majmūʿah i jafr, by Ṣādiq ʿAlī K̲h̲ān Jaffār: Āṣafīyah ii p. 1680 no. 174.

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Miftāh al-mus̲h̲kilāt: Āṣafīyah ii p. 1680 no. 54.

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Nafāʾis al-ḥaqāʾiq (beg. Waṣf i jamīl bar wajh i taʿẓīm), on the ʿilm al-ḥurūf: de Jong (Batavia) p. 236 no. 182 (14) (pp. 268–99. ah 860/1456).

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Qāʿidah i jafr: Āṣafīyah ii p. 1680 no. 184 (ah 1138/ 1725–6).

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(Risālah dar ʿilm i ḥurūf) (beg. Alif. Dar baʿḍī kutub i ahl i ḥurūf mad̲h̲kūr ast): Bodleian iii 2750 (4) (circ. ad 1768).

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¶ Rasāʾil dar ʿilm i jafr, by Ḥusain Ak̲h̲lāṭī² (author of the Birahnah on alchemy: see pl. ii § 768 (2)): Lindesiana p. 152 no. 715 (circ ad 1760).

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(Risālah i jafr) (beg. Baʿd az ḥ. u ṣ. ān-kih īn risālah mus̲h̲tamil bar muqaddimah u c̲h̲ahār faṣl): Bānkīpūr Suppt. ii 2054 (foll. 207a–220b. 19th cent.).

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(Risālah i jafr) (beg. al-Ḥ. l. ḥamd^an lā nihāyata lahu), by Jalāl al-Dīn ʿAbd Allāh b. M. Bēg: D̲h̲arīʿah v p. 122 no. 496 (ms. at Najaf).

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Risālah i jafr, various untitled or unidentified works: Āṣafīyah ii p. 1680 nos. 173, [1, 170, 171.]

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Rumūz al-asrār (beg. Iḥṣā-yi t̲h̲anā sazāwār i Muḥṣī ast), by ʿIbād Allāh It̲h̲nā-ʿas̲h̲arī: Ivanow Curzon 657 (29 foll. ah 1240/1824–5), Āṣafīyah ii p. 1680 no. 165, Berlin 303 (13).

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Sarāʾir i taksīr (beg. Bi-dān aiyadaka ’llāhu taʿālā kih ʿulāmāʾ i jafr muddat barakātuhum ba-tatabbuʿ i bisyār): Ivanow Curzon 658 (19 foll. ah 1104/1693).

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Sarmāyah i sālikān, by S. ʿAlī Jafrī Ṣūfī Ḥakīm Rūmī, in 12 chapters (of which the subjects are given by Rehatsek): Rehatsek p. 203 no. 55.

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S̲h̲arḥ al-Matīn, by Abū Farīd S̲h̲. Imām al-Dīn, presumably identical with the author of the Tanwīr al-aḥkām (no. 21 below): Āṣafīyah ii p. 1680 no. 172.

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Tanwīr al-aḥkām, by Imām al-Dīn, presumably identical with Abū Farīd S̲h̲. Imām al-Dīn, author of the S̲h̲arḥ al-Matīn (no. 20 above): Āṣafīyah ii p. 1678 no. 172.

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