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).

Sat:veṇī [niñḍhī] : manuscript, 1890?

Foreign wove paper; watermark: made in Belgium for Nuzzurally Heptoolabhoy, Bombay.

Vāek:vaḏo : manuscript, 1890?

Foreign wove paper, probably German; watermark: Keferstein & Sohn, 1871.

Satveṇī:vaḍī : manuscript, 1884

Foreign paper, good quality.

[ Nikāḥ] : manuscript, ca. 1894

Marriage ritual in Arabic, the Story of the fast of Satī Mā also known as the fast of Maulā ʻAlī, a Prayer to be recited during ceremony for the forgiveness of sin on the Great Day (the Day of Judgement), the short kalimah or testimony of faith and the long kalimah.

Bhaet : manuscript, 1890?

Narratives to be recited at the commemorative assembly (majlis) held on the 30th and 40th days after the martyrdom of Imām Ḥusain.

[ Farmāns] : manuscript, 1910?

According to a note on p. 1, contains farmāns made by Imām Sulṭān Muḥammad Shāh [Aga Khan III] at Zanzibar, Bagamoyo and Dar es Salaam. The manuscript records those farmāns made between 19 Jeṭh [Jyeshtha] to 23 Bhadr [Bhadrapad] s. 1956 (approx. May-September 1899).

Narratives to be recited at the commemorative assembly (majlis) held on the 10th and 20th days after the martyrdom anniversary of Imām Ḥusain : manuscript, 1890?

Title provided by cataloger.

Rasālo:emām:jāfar:sādhak:jo : manuscript, 1890?

A popular treatise in 18 parts.

Namāz : manuscript, 1858-1865

Ritual Prayer in Arabic with instructions on number of prostration cycles (rakaʻahs) to be performed during each of the five prayer times.

[ Māāṟajil nabẖûvat] : manuscript, 1900?

Story of Prophet Abraham translated from a Persian text (possibly Muʻīn ad-Dīn Farāhi's "Maʻārij an-nubūwwah fī madārij al-futuwwah"), story of Prophet Zakariya from a text entitled Māālamil tanzīl (possibly Abū Muḥammad Ḥusain bin Masʻūd Baǵavī's "Maʻālim at-tanzīl") and two stories from the Sakhāvat nāma (possibly Sakhāvat nāma-i Ḥaẓrat ʻĀlī, the popular versified account of the miracles attributed to Ḥaẓrat ʻAlī).

Nasabh:nāme:hazarat:nabhī:mahamadh:mûstafā : manuscript, 1900?

Second and third chapters of the anonymous Hindustani work entitled "Nasabh:nāme:hazarat:nabhī:mahamadh:mûstafā" and various accounts.

[ vīrā:mārā:dhan:pûtr:māeā:sarve:karmī:kahīe] : manuscript, ca. 1887

Local paper. Pages slightly discolored.

[ Padas] : manuscript, 1900?

Collection of religious poems.

ejī:harī:nāme:harī:jāṇī:e : manuscript, 1829?

Title provided by cataloger.