A descriptive catalogue of the historical manuscripts in the Arabic and Persian languages, preserved in the library of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

  • Morley, William H. (William Hook), 1815-1860.
Date:
1854
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A descriptive catalogue of the historical manuscripts in the Arabic and Persian languages, preserved in the library of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    XXIF. Rauzat as-Safa.—-The first, second, and third volumes, bound in one. Foil. 403. Thirty lines in a page. Well written in a small Naskh hand, in a.h. 1022-23-24 (a.d. 1613-14-15.) Several leaves at the beginning of this MS. have been much injured by damp. Size 14^ in. by 9 in. (Gordon of Buthlaw.) XXV. ^ I ^.^7! i t Rauzat as-Safa.—The fourth volume, containing: The history of the dynasties contemporary with the ’Abbasides, viz.: the Tahirides from Tahir Zu al-Yumnain to the deposition of Muhammad Ben Tahir, by Ya’kub Ben Lais, in a h. 259 (a.d. 872). The Suflfarides, from their origin to the defeat of Tahir Ben Muhammad by Sakri, a slave of ’Amru Lais, in A.H. 296 (a.d. 908). Account of’Amru Ben Ya’kub SuflTari, and of Khalaf Ben Ahmad, rulers of Sistan. The Samanides, from their origin to the assassination of Abu Ibrahim Isma’il Ben Nuh, in A.H. 395 (a.d. 1004). The Dilamites of Jurjan and Gil an, from Shams al-Ma’ali Kabus Ben Washmagir to Dara Ben Shams al-Ma’ali Kabus, who submitted to Mahmud of Ghaznin. The Ghaznavides, from Amir Sabuktagin, to a.h. 583 (a.d. 1187), when Khusru Malik was conquered by Gbiyas ad-Din Mu¬ hammad Ghuri. The Buwaihides, from their origin to the death of Abu ’All Kai Khusru Ben ’Izz al-Muluk Abu Kalinjar, in A.H. 487 (a.d. 1094). The Fatimites in Egypt, from Abu al- Kasim Muhammad al-Mahdi, to the death of Al-’Azid Lidin Allah, in a.h. 567 (a d 1171). The Assassins, from Hasan Sabah, to their extirpation by Hulaku Khan. The Saljuks, from their origin : 1st branch, the Saljuks of Persia, from Tughril Beg to the death of Tughril Ben Arslan, in a.h. 590 (a.d. 1193), and an abstract of events which followed, to a.h. 622 Ta D. 1225), when the Atabak Muzaflfar ad-Din Uzbak was expelled from Azarbaijan, by Jalal ad-Din, King of Kharizm : 2d branch, the Saljuks of Kirman, from Kadard Ben Ghakar Beg to the time of Muhammad Shah Ben Bah ram Shah, the last of the dynasty : 3d branch, the Saljuks of Rum, from Sulaiman Ben Kutlamish to Kai Kubad Ben Faramurz, the last of the Rumian branch. The Kings of Kharizm, from their origin