Writings on Islamic divination : manuscript, [ca. 1592]

Title supplied by cataloger.

Kitāb al-Kashf fī ʻilm al-ḥarf : manuscript, 1840

Written in one column, 23 lines per page, in black and red.

Majmūʻah fī ʻilm al-raml : manuscript, undated

A collection of writings by various authors on divination and geomancy.

Kitāb Shams ṣughrá : manuscript, 1372 or 3

Written in one column, 17 lines per page, in black ink. Text includes tables. Comments in the margins.

Kitāb al-Anwār wa-al-asrār al-mushīr ilá ʻilm al-taksīr : manuscript, undated

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين والحمد لله المتعال الكريم ... :Incipit

Sharḥ Kanz al-mughrimīn / lil-Shaykh al-ʻĀrif billāh Ibn Sabʻīn : manuscript, 1593

Title from f. 15r.

Hādhā kitāb al-Talkhīṣ min mīzān al-kalimāt al-jafrīyah wa-ḥawādith al-sinīn al-hijrīyah : manuscript, undated

With: Thalāthat alwāḥ al-jafrīyah al-mutaḍamminah asmāʼ mulūk Āl ʻUthmān (f. 4v-5r) -- al-Durr al-munaẓẓam fī sharḥ al-ism al-aʻẓam / ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Bisṭāmī (f. 5v-39r).

Hādhihi al-Thalāthat alwāḥ al-jafrīyah al-mutaḍamminah asmāʼ mulūk Āl ʻUthmān : ibtidāʼan min al-Sulṭān ʻUthmān al-Awwal ilá al-sulṭān Muḥammad al-Akhīr al-Imām Muḥammad al-Mahdī fī ākhir al-zamān : manuscript, undated

With: Kitāb al-Talkhīṣ min mīzān al-kalimāt al-jafrīyah wa-ḥawādith al-sinīn al-hijrīyah.

Compedium of astrology, numerology and fortune-telling : manuscript, undated

Iran Jewett manuscript no. 7.

al- Durr al-munaẓẓam fī sharḥ al-ism al-aʻẓam : manuscript, undated

Written in one column, 20 lines per page, in black rubricated in red. Text framed within double red lines and each line framed within a red line.

The “Iranian ART Revolution”: infertility, assisted reproductive technology, and third-party donation in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Infertility is a social onus for women in Iran, who are expected to produce children early within marriage. With its estimated 1.5 million infertile couples, Iran is the only Muslim country in which assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) using donor gametes and embryos have been legitimized by religious authorities and passed into law. Th is has placed Iran, a Shia-dominant country, in a unique position vis-à-vis the Sunni Islamic world, where all forms of gamete donation are strictly prohibited. In this article, we first examine the “Iranian ART revolution” that has allowed donor technologies to be admitted as a form of assisted reproduction. Then we examine the response of Iranian women to their infertility and the profound social pressures they face. We argue that the experience of infertility and its treatment are mediated by women’s socioeconomic position within Iranian society. Many women lack economic access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) technologies and fear the moral consequences of gamete donation. Thus, the benefits of the Iranian ART revolution are mixed: although many Iranian women have been able to overcome their infertility through ARTs, not all women’s lives are improved by these technologies.