Materials for the Intellectual History of Imāmī Shīʿism in the Safavid Period: A Facsimile Edition of Ms New York Public Library,

In 1934 the New York Public Library purchased a sizable collection of 250 volumes of Arabic manuscripts through the fund for Semitic literature that had been provided by Jacob Heinrich Schiff (d. 1920). While the collection is known to have been purchased in Baghdad, no further details are available about the transaction. The collection contains a fair number of writings by Ibrāhīm Faṣīḥ b. Ṣibghat Allāh al-Ḥaydarī...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1463239238
• ISBN13: 9781463239237
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Gorgias Press
• Length: 566 Pages
• Weight: 3.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.3" x 10.8"