It indeed gives me great pleasure to reprint the 2 volumes of "Descriptive Catalogue of rare Urdu, Arabic and Persian manuscripts" and to present them to students, research scholars and lovers of literature from India and abroad. We have rich collection of above 17 thousand manuscripts of Urdu, Arabic and Persian languages in our institute. Among these manuscripts Mr. Tassaduq Hussain identified 833 rare manuscripts and prepared descriptive catalogue in 2 volumes for those manuscripts in Persian language with informative introduction and index. These 833 rare manuscripts belong to different subjects like Aqlaq, Adaya, Asami kutub etc.,
Earlier also we had reprinted 2 volumes of Descriptive Catalogue of Urdu manuscripts in the year 2010 to cater to the needs of scholarly world. These 2 volumes were prepared by Sri Nasiruddin Hashmi in the year 1961. The 2 volumes of Descriptive Catalogue of Urdu poetry manuscripts prepared by Dr. Rafat Rizwana are also available in our institute. Now we are presenting 2 volumes of "Descriptive Catalogue of rare Urdu, Arabaic and Persian manuscripts" by reprinting them.
We hope the Research Community will derive benefit from these volumes. I convey my thanks to the members of Urdu, Arabic and Persian wings bringing out these publications.
A general catalogue of manuscripts as well as printed books in Urdu, Arabic & Persian languages was prepared in 4 Volumes by veteran Cataloguers and Directors of Asafiya Library Mr. Syed Tasaduq Hussain and Mr. Syed Abbas Hussain during the period from 1915 A.D. to 1940 A.D. Mr. Syed Tassaduq Hussain prepared 1™ & II volumes and Syed Abbas Hussain prepared III & IV volumes.
Later Mr.Syed Tassaduq Hussain prepared a descriptive catalogue of rare Urdu, Arabic and Persian Manuscripts after identifying them from general catalogue. This descriptive catalogue was divided in 2 Volumes and prepared in Persian language by giving preface and index also. These indexes were prepared in alphabetical order and subject wise also for the benefit of the scholars.
In the I" Volume, description was given for 452 manuscripts and in the II volume description was given for 381 manuscripts. The 1" volume contains 17 subjects i.e., 1. Aqlaq 2. Adaya 3. Asami Kutub 4. Usal-E-Fiqa 5. Insha 6. Blaghath 7. Tarikh 8. Tajweed 9. Tazkera 10. Trajim 11. Tassuf 12. Tafseer 13. Jugrafia 14. Hadees 15. Diwan 16. Rijal 17 Riyazi. The Ilnd volume contains 30 subjects. i.e., 1. Safer Nama 2. Swan-E-Omri 3. Siar 4. Sarf-O-Nahu 5. Tib-I-Unani 6. Tib- I-Doctory 7. Tib-I-Haywanath 8. Fatawa 9. Fiq-I-Hanafi 10. Fiq-I-Shafie 11. Fiq- I-Imamia 12. Fiq-1-Hanbali 13. Fiq-I-Malaki 14. Falsafa 15. Qasaid 16.Qassas 17. Kalam 18. Kimya 19. Lughath 20. Mathnaviyath 21. Muhazerath 22. Mazahib 23. Munaqib 24. Manthiq 25. Mawaiz 26. Nahu 27. Narainjath 28. Majame 29.Muthaferiqath 30. Mushaf.
We thank our Director for taking keen interest to bring out these 2 Volumes by reprinting them to cater to the needs of scholars.
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