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Object number(B)Ms.1109 (ArI, ZA)
TitleKitāb al-Himma fī ādāb atbā‘ al-a’imma
Creatoral-Qāḍī al-Nu‘mān b. Muḥammad b. Ḥayyūn al-Tamīmī (Author)
DescriptionCOPYST: ‘Alī b. Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Ẓuhrī.
DATE: 23 Shawwāl 1349/12 March 1931.
DESCRIPTION: 169 pp.(95a–b blank); 15 lines per page; 222 x 138/ 155 x 90 mm.; clear black naskhī; headings in red; occasional cor- rections and additions in the margins.
RERERENCES: Fyzee, QN, 30; Gacek, IIS, vol.1 (no.52); Goriawala, 32–34; Ivanow, IL, 80; al-Majdū‘, pp.50–53; Poonawala, pp.65–66 (no.43); ZA, Hamāre, index, no.24.
EDITIONS: al-Qāḍī al-Nu‘mān, Kitāb al-Himma fī ādāb atbā‘ al-a’imma, ed. M. Kāmil Ḥusayn, Cairo, [1948?]. Another edition was pub- lished by M. Ghālib in Beirut, 1979.
TRANSLATIONS: An English selection in J. Muscati and A.M. Moulvi, Selections from Qazi Noaman’s Kitab-ul-Himma fi Adabi Ataba-el-a’emma or Code of Conduct for the Followers of Imam, Karachi, 1950. A chapter from the Himma was translated by W. Ivanow, ‘The Organization of the Fatimid Propaganda,’ Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, New Series, 15 (1939), pp.1–35 (pp.15–17). A Gujarati-English selection was published in Bombay in 1977 and a complete Gujarati translation by Sayarāb Abuturābī Rajkotī ap- peared in Bombay in 1978.
DATE: 23 Shawwāl 1349/12 March 1931.
DESCRIPTION: 169 pp.(95a–b blank); 15 lines per page; 222 x 138/ 155 x 90 mm.; clear black naskhī; headings in red; occasional cor- rections and additions in the margins.
RERERENCES: Fyzee, QN, 30; Gacek, IIS, vol.1 (no.52); Goriawala, 32–34; Ivanow, IL, 80; al-Majdū‘, pp.50–53; Poonawala, pp.65–66 (no.43); ZA, Hamāre, index, no.24.
EDITIONS: al-Qāḍī al-Nu‘mān, Kitāb al-Himma fī ādāb atbā‘ al-a’imma, ed. M. Kāmil Ḥusayn, Cairo, [1948?]. Another edition was pub- lished by M. Ghālib in Beirut, 1979.
TRANSLATIONS: An English selection in J. Muscati and A.M. Moulvi, Selections from Qazi Noaman’s Kitab-ul-Himma fi Adabi Ataba-el-a’emma or Code of Conduct for the Followers of Imam, Karachi, 1950. A chapter from the Himma was translated by W. Ivanow, ‘The Organization of the Fatimid Propaganda,’ Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, New Series, 15 (1939), pp.1–35 (pp.15–17). A Gujarati-English selection was published in Bombay in 1977 and a complete Gujarati translation by Sayarāb Abuturābī Rajkotī ap- peared in Bombay in 1978.
DocumentationCortese, Delia. Arabic Ismaili Manuscripts: The Zahid ‘Ali Collection. London: I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2003.
Object typemanuscript