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Title Bāb-i haftum dar imāmat. Other Title باب هفتم در امامت. Summary Summary of Shīʻah doctrine and the Imamate. Contributor Names Dihlawī, ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Aḥmad, 1746 or 1747-1823 or 1824. Created / Published [between 1840 and 1860] Subject Headings - Imamate - Shīʻah--Doctrines - Manuscripts, Persian--Washington (D.C.) - India Notes - Manuscript. - Persian. - Title from fol. 1b, and comparison with a lithograph of a complete copy of Tuḥfah-ʹi Is̲nā ʻAsharīyah - Name of scribe not indicated. - Probably written in India. - Paper; thick tan-color laid paper with no visible chain lines or watermarks; text is enclosed in a border of two thin lines of red ink; black ink with interlinear translations in red ink; catchwords on rectos - Nastaʻliq (Persian text); naskh (Arabic text); 15-16 lines in written area 14.5 x 7.5 cm. - Fol. 1b-223b. - Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M 9. - European quarter leather binding; red leather spine and corners with gold edging; black buckram. - Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website. - Incipit: باب هفتم در امامت ... - Explicit/Colophon: تمام شد نسخه شريفه باب هفتم ... نواب قطب الدوله روز دشنبة تاريخ نهم جمادى الاول.