[IO Islamic 2141] Tadhkirat-alaḥwâl

•  Tadhkirat-alaḥwâl.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 677 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 2141 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Tadhkirat-alaḥwâl (تذكرة الاحوال ) .

The autobiography of Shaikh Muḥammad ‘Alî Ḥazîn, who was born in Iṣfahân, in Rabî’-althânî, A.H. 1103 (A.D. 1691, December, to 1692, January), and died in Banâras, A.H. 1180 (A.D. 1766). He wrote this account of his life in A.H. 1154 (A.D. 1741), see fol. 159^a, l. 7.

Beginning: نحمده و نسأله التقى و نعتصم بعروة الوثقى و نصلّى على سيّدنا المصطفى و آله الخ .

The above title is found in Rieu i. p. 372. Other titles, given to this book, are تذكرۀ شیخ محمّد على حزين , in Bodleian Cat., No. 383; تأريخ احوال شيخ حزين , in A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 141; and حالات شيخ على حزين , on the fly-leaf of this copy. An English translation of it was published by F.C. Belfour, London, 1830; the Persian text by the same, London, 1831.

Dated the 8th of Rabî’-alawwal, A.H. 1227 (A.D. 1812, March 23), at Lucknow, by پيدرو شوير بوتيس عيسوى بن فراسيكو شوير بوتيس , who copied it for مشتر ( ! ) بيلونهرى . College of Fort William, 1825.

No. 2141, ff. 1-160, ll. 11; large Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9^1/4 in. by 6^1/8 in.