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6.1 K̲h̲awāṣṣ al-Qurʾān

¶ § 89. M. b. A. b. Suhail al-Jauzī, called Ibn al-K̲h̲as̲h̲s̲h̲āb (circ. ah 650/1252), wrote in Arabic a work entitled

al-Durr al-naẓīm fī faḍāʾil al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm (see Brockelmann i 414).

An abridgment of this was made by the well-known mystic and historian al-Yāfiʿī (ʿAbd Allāh b. Asʿad, d. ah 768/1367, see Brockelmann ii 176).

A Persian translation (ostensibly by the same al-Yāfiʿī) was published at Bombay in 1311°. For a manuscript (?) see Āṣafīyah ii p. 1688.

§ 90. ‘Abd al-ʿAlī b. M. b. Ḥusain, who may, or may not, be identical with the well-known astronomer al-Birjandī,¹ compiled in 926/1519–20 from unspecified Arabic sources

“A large treatise on the hidden science and magic influence of special verses and phrases of the Kurân”:² Berlin 64 (3) (defective at end), Ethé 1762 (30), i.o. d.p. 84a, 84b.

A study of this work with translations of extracts has been published by A. Christensen under the title Xavāṣṣ-i-āyāt. Notices et extraits d’un manuscrit persan traitant la magie des versets du Coran (Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, Historisk-filologiske Meddelelser iii 4. Copenhagen, 1920).

§ 91. In the time of M. Qulī Quṭb-S̲h̲āh of Golconda (ah 989/1581–1020/1611) was composed at Ḥaidarābād

Ṣawāmīʿ al-malakūt: Āṣafiyah i p. 566 no. 182.

§ 92. The well-known S̲h̲īʿite theologian Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī Majlisī died in 1110/1698–9 or 1111/1699–1700.

K̲h̲awāṣṣ i sūrahā i Qurʾān: Būhār 241 (1).

[Rauḍāt al-jannāt 118, Browne Lit. Hist. iv, 409 etc.]

§ 93. Abū ’l-Mafāk̲h̲ir Niẓām al-Dīn M. Hādī b. M. Mahdī al-Ḥusainī al-Ṣafawī, known as S̲h̲āh Mīrzā and Mīrzā Mahdī K̲h̲ān Ṣafawī, the compiler of chronological tables of the Indian Tīmūrids (Ivanow 167), wrote in ah 1114/1702–3 at Ḥaidarābād.

¶ Ḍiyāʾ al-ʿuyūn, mainly on the talismanic virtues of passages in the Qurʾān: Bodleian 1563, Ethé 2272.

Editions: Ṭihrān 1285–6° (prefixed to a Qurʾān), Bombay 1894†.

§ 94. Works by authors of uncertain date:—

(1)

[Risālah fī—sic] [al-]Mirʾāt al-ʿiyānīyah fī asrār [al-]k̲h̲awāṣṣ al-Qurʾānīyah, by Muḥyī ’l-Dīn b. Rūḥ Allāh al-G̲h̲aznawī: Āyā Ṣūfiyah 407.

(2)

Tuḥfat al-g̲h̲arāʾib, based on the K̲h̲awāṣṣ al-Qurʾān (Jawāhir al-Qurʾān according to K̲h̲udā Bak̲h̲s̲h̲) of al-Tamīmī³ by an author whose name is variously given as M. b. M. al-Sabzawārī (i.o. ms.), M. b. M. al-Ṣadrī (K̲h̲udā Bak̲h̲s̲h̲), M. b. M. Sarfarāzī (Būhār), M. b. A. ad-Daʾusī [al-Dausī?] az-Zawwārī or as-Sabzawārī or as-Sarwārī (Ivanow) and M. al-Harawī (Bodleian): Bānkīpūr (Maḥbūb al-albāb 95), Bodleian 1560 (Ch. i–iv only), Būhār 241 (3), i.o. d.p. 1183 foll. 57–67, Ivanow 1527.

§ 95. Works of unknown authorship:—

(1)

Āyā Ṣūfiyah 424. (2) Berlin 21 (1). (3) Bodleian 1814 (a mat̲h̲nawī), 1815 (a detailed work), 1904 (14). (4) Browne Suppt. 458. (5) Cairo p. 523. (6) Decourdemanche iii s.p. 1943 (Sūrah cv). (7) Dorn 233 (11). (8) Ethé 2706 (metrical), 2802 (4). (9) Flügel 1770 ult. (Sūrah cxii). (10) i.o. D.Misc. 21 (large work based on al-Tamīmī, cf. § 94), d.p. 33 foll. 99b–106, d.p. 1182 foll. 173b–175b, d.p. 1182 fol. 173 (Sūrah xii), d.p. 1182 foll. 167–173a (statements ascribed to Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq). (11) Ivanow 949 (6). (12) de Jong 182 (13) (ah 860). (13) Lālah-lī 1530. (14) Nad̲h̲īr Aḥmad 17 (M. ʿAbd al-Bārī’s Library, Lucknow, ah 700). (15) Peshawar 1974 (Fawāʾid al-Qurʾān). (16) Salīmīyah 54. (17) de Slane 668 (4). (18) ʿUmūmī 1339.

The Qurʾān lithographed at [Bombay] in 1275° contains “marginal notes on the occult powers of certain passages”. Such notes are sometimes to be found in manuscripts of the Qurʾān, e.g. i.o. 4142.

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