Various Shiite devotional texts to be recited in religious assemblies (majālis) commemorating the events leading to the martyrdom of the Shii Imam Ḥusain b. ʻAlī (d. 860)] : manuscript, 1900?

Various Shiite devotional texts to be recited in religious assemblies (majālis) commemorating the events leading to the martyrdom of the Shii Imam Ḥusain b. ʻAlī (d. 680). Each majlis (there is twenty) begins with a synoptic heading. The beginning of 17th majlis suggests that some of these texts are based on Mahdī b. Abī Zarr al-Kāshānī an-Niraqī's "Muḥarriq al-qulub (a Shiite history of the martyrs of the Prophet's family).

Title provided by cataloger.

Foreign paper, watermark: made in England for Shaik Ahmad Shaik Dawood of Bombay.

21 x 17 cm. (16 x 13 cm.).

Written in black ink, 12-13 lines per page.

Multiple sections, stab-sewn; binding in poor condition, covers missing. Folio 1 detached and mutilated; bottom edge of the first fifty folios badly damaged.

MS Indic 2534. Houghton Library, Harvard University.

In Hindustani in Khojki script.