The origins of the British Library’s Delhi collection have been a matter of scholarly debate. On the one hand, some scholars believe it represents to a substantial extent the remnants of the Mughal imperial library,…
BL Delhi Persian 1241 is a composite codex, comprising two manuscripts, one of which itself contains two works. All three works are commentaries on Persian poetry, composed by Abū al-Ḥasan Ḥusaynī Farāhānī (active in…
Ṭahmās Khān (d. 1217/1802) was born in Anatolia but was captured in his infancy by Nādir Shāh’s Uzbak troops and subsequently taken to India. After serving under Muʿīn al-Mulk (d.1167/1753-4), a viceroy (ṣūba-dār) in…
Ursula Sims-Williams On Friday 3rd November, the British Institute of Persian Studies’ Flagship Research Project, held an informal workshop, “Persian Manuscripts between East and West: Britain, India and the…
Khwāja Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (d.672/1274) hardly needs any introduction. An influential political figure during the early Ilkhanid period, Naṣīr al-Dīn was a philosopher in the medieval sense of the word, which included…
Britain holds some of the most important collections of Persian manuscripts in the west. Despite scholarly interest in these collections dating back to the seventeenth century, they continue to hold numerous…
