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9.5 Occult Arts: Khawāṣṣ
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In Volume 2: Mathematics; Weights, and Measures; Astronomy, and Astrology; Geography; Medicine; Encyclopaedias, and Miscellanies; Arts and Crafts, Science, Occult Arts

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For other works on this subject, see pl. i pp. 41vv.

§ 842. Aḥmad b. M. al-Tamīmī (cf. pl. i § 94 fn.).

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K̲h̲awāṣṣ al-āyāt (beg. Ḥ. u sp. Karīmī rā kih Qurʾān i qadīm u ḥakīm rā): D̲h̲arīʿah vii p. 270 no. 1305 (private library of S. Abū ’l-Qāsim Mūsawī Riyāḍī k̲h̲wānsārī).
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K̲h̲awāṣṣ i asmāʾ Allāh ta‘ālā, metrical, completed in Ramaḍān 952/Nov.–Dec. 1545: D̲h̲arīʿah vii p. 271 no. 1311 (same library).

§ 843. Āqā Najafī (i.e. S̲h̲. M. Taqī b. M. Bāqir Iṣfahānī) died at Iṣfahān on 11 S̲h̲aʿbān 1332/5 July 1914 (cf. pl. i §§ 262, 278, 311 (15), Brockelmann Sptbd. ii pp. 800, 838).

K̲h̲awāṣṣ al-āyāt, based mainly on al-Yāfiʿī’s work al-Durr al-naẓīm (cf. pl. i § 89): Bombay 1299/1882 (D̲h̲arīʿah vii p. 270 no. 1307).

§ 844. Appendix

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Baḥr al-g̲h̲arāʾib (beg. al-Ḥ. li-Walīyihi wa-Huwa ’l. lahu ’l-asmāʾ al-ḥusnā), on the k̲h̲awāṣṣ of the 99 names of God, by M. b. M. b. Abī Saʿīd al-Harawī [possibly the author of the Tuḥfat al-g̲h̲arāʾib: see pl. i § 94]: Leningrad Univ. no. 1092 (ah 985/1577. Romaskewicz p. 4).

Editions: 1299/1882 (2nd ed. With Muntak̲h̲ab al-k̲h̲utūm on the margin. D̲h̲arīʿah iii p. 432, Āṣafīyah i p. 54 no. 213); Bombay 1326/1908 (3rd ed. D̲h̲arīʿah iii p. 433).

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K̲h̲awāṣṣ i asmā-yi ḥusnā, by Qāḍī Ḥakīm M. ʿUmar (Nūr Allāh): Lucknow 1903° (Nāmī Pr. Appended to Nūr i ḍamāʾir, a mat̲h̲nawī on the 99 Names. Together 418 pp.).
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Nawad u nuh nām u k̲h̲awāṣṣ u manāfīʿ i ān (beg. Bi- dān-kih imām al-ajall … al-Tabrīzī risālah dar k̲h̲awāṣṣ i manāfiʿ i asmāʾ Allāh yak yak nawis̲h̲tah), translated by M. S̲h̲afīʿ (resident at Lahore in 1021/1612) from an Arabic original by Imām Tabrīzī: Bodleian iii 2827 (29) (probably circ. 1021/1612).

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“9.5 Occult Arts: Khawāṣṣ”, in: Storey Online, Charles Ambrose Storey. Consulted online on 02 October 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2772-7696_SPLO_COM_20905000>
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