[IO Islamic 240] ديوان ظهير الدين شفروه

• Dîwân-i-Żahîr-aldîn Shufurwah.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 934 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 240 here with notations and hyperlinks].

934

Dîwân-i-Żahîr-aldîn Shufurwah ( ديوان ظهير الدين شفروه).

According to the short prose preface, on fol. 1^b:امام عالم بارع افضل اكمل ظهير الدين شفروه اصفهانى روّح الله روحه مردى بى نظير و حكيم بوده است و مستجمع جميع علوم و واعظ نيز در عهد سلطان ارسلان بوده و مدح او و پسرش طغرل گفته الخ, this copy contains the extremely rare dîwân-not met with in any other collection- of Żahîr-aldîn ‘Abdallâh Shufurwah of Iṣfahân, who was a cousin of the better-known Sharaf-aldin Muḥammad Faḍl-allâh or ‘Abd-almu’min Shufurwah (see Haft Iḳlim, Nos. 867 and 868, col. 441 in this Cat.; Âtashkada, Nos. 391 and 406, Bodleian Cat., cols. 276 and 277; and A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 17, No. 35), and, like him, a panegyrist of Sulṭân Arslân bin Ṭughrul Saljûḳî (A.H. 556-571=A.D. 1161-1176) and of his son and successor, Sulṭân Ṭughrul III (A.H. 571-590=A.D. 1176-1194); comp. also the Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 1492 in Bodleian Cat., col. 349, where he is praised as an expert in law, tradition, and Ḳurân-interpretation, and where some poetical extracts are given, which, however, cannot be traced in this copy. The dîwân consists of ḳaṣîdas, intermixed with a few ghazals, ḳiṭ’as, and four rubâ’îs.

Beginning of the dîwân, on fol. 1^b:

اى هستئ بى نشان نشانت – بيخود خرد از علوّ شانت

No date.

No. 240, ff. 1-88, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; worm-eaten; size, 8^3/8 in. by 4^3/4 in.