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§ 97. M. Ẓahīr al-Dīn b. M. Masʿūd K̲h̲ān Bahādur Bilgrāmī, Professor of Persian at Canning College, Lucknow, composed in 1284/1867–8

Targ̲h̲īb al-Furqān, an attempt to show that inability to pronounce Arabic correctly and ignorance of the rules of tajwīd are not valid excuses for leaving the Qurʾān unread;—

Editions: Lucknow 1870*, Cawnpore 1874*.

§ 98. Saiyid Abū ’l-K̲h̲air Muḥammad Muʿīn al-Dīn ibn K̲h̲airāt ʿAlī Mas̲h̲hadI Karawī was learned in several branches of knowledge but especially in the Riyāḍīyāt. Raḥmān ʿAlī, a pupil of his, mentions eleven of his works, including treatises on theology, astronomy, medicine and logic. While performing the pilgrimage in 1281/1865, he conceived the idea of writing a work on the Qurʾānic sciences (no. 1 below). On his return to India he was appointed mudarris in a madrasah at Mirzāpūr and in consequence of the duties of his appointment made slow progress with his task. He died at Aḥmadābād Nārah on 3 Rabīʿ i 1304/1886.

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Jilāʾ al-ad̲h̲hān fī ʿulūm al-Qurʾān, divided into the following chapters:—

i. The five ʿulūm: (i) ʿilm i aḥkām i panjgānah: (a) wājib, (b) mandūb, (c) mubāḥ, (d) makrūh, (e) ḥarām; (ii) ʿilm i muk̲h̲āṣamah bā c̲h̲ahār firqah i ḍāllah; (iii) ʿilm i tad̲h̲kīr bi-ālāʾ Allāh; (iv) ʿilm i tad̲h̲kīr bi-aiyām ¶ Allāh; (v) ʿilm i tad̲h̲kīr bi-maut wa-mā baʿd i ān. ii. Nāsik̲h̲ wa-mansūk̲h̲. iii. K̲h̲awāṣṣ i suwar i Qurʾānī. iv. The abbreviations used for the names of the rāwīs. V. Waqf. vi. The pausal signs. vii. The number of sūrahs, verses, words, letters, and rukūʿāt. viii. On tajwīd. [ix] K̲h̲ātimah. On the faḍāʾil of the Qurʾān and the etiquette of reading it:—Edition: Lucknow 1875*.

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Ādāb i Muʿaiyanah (Muʿīnīyah acc. to Raḥmān ʿAlī), on dialectics:—Edition: Cawnpore 1286°.

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Hidāyat al-muʾminīn ilā silsilat al-ṣālihīn, on baiʿat and the Ṣūfistic discipline (some account of the author’s ancestors on p. 14):—Edition: Lucknow 1875°*.

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al-Tibyān fī aḥkām s̲h̲urb al-duk̲h̲ān:—Edition: place? 1298 (Āṣafīyah ii p. 1118).

[Raḥmān ʿAlī 229].

§ 99. Saiyid Nūr al-Ḥasan b. G̲h̲ulām Muḥyī ’l-Dīn Qādirī Barakātī Mārahrawī wrote in 1292/1875—

Matāʿ al-īmān fī bayān jamʿ al-Qurʾān (a chronogram):—Edition: Sītāpūr 1292–3*.

§ 100. Other miscellaneous works.

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Āmīn i k̲h̲atm i Qurʾān, verses recited on completing the reading of the Qurʾān, by Mīr ʿAbbās: Edition:—Delhi 1875*.

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ʿIlm al-Kitāb, by K̲h̲wājah Amīr al-Muḥammadī:—Edition: Delhi 1891†.

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K̲h̲atm i Sūrah i Anʿām, “how to read” Sūrah vi:—Edition: Bombay 1885†.

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K̲h̲ātimat al-k̲h̲iṭāb fī masʾalat Fātiḥat al-Kitāb, by M. Anwar S̲h̲āh:—Edition: Delhi 1902†.

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Maʿārij al-ʿirfān fī ʿulūm al-Qurʾān, by S. Aḥmad Ḥusain:—Edition: Amrōhah 1918†.

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Miftāḥ al-Qurʾān, by Mīrzā Qilīj Bēg (an index ? a glossary?):—Edition: place? 1310 (Āṣafīyah i p. 568 no. 399).

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Mīzān al-Furqān, by M. ʿUt̲h̲mān K̲h̲ān “Qais”, an introduction:—Edition: [Lucknow] 1874°.

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Nihāyāt al-bayān fī maqāṣid al-Qurʾān, by Saiyid Muḥammad Dihlawī:—Edition: Delhi 1868†.

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Qurrat al-ʿain, argues that all the proverbs etc. of different peoples can be paralleled from the Qurʾān:

Berlin 41 (5) (defective at end).

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¶ On the asbāb al-nuzūl and al-nāsikh wa-’l-mansūk̲h̲:¹—i.o. d.p. 23.

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On al-nāsik̲h̲ wa-’l-mansūkh:—i.o. d.a. 61b foll. 16b–20a.

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On the truth of the Qurʾān and Muḥammad’s divine mission, by ʿAbd al-Wāsiʿ: Bodleian 1816.

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On the tradition Inna lil-Qurʾāni ẓahr^an wa-baṭn^an: Gotha 8(8).

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