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Book/Printed Material Qiṣṣah-ʼi Shamsʹābād / / قصۀ شمسأباد /

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Title

  • Qiṣṣah-ʼi Shamsʹābād

Other Title

  • /
  • قصۀ شمسأباد /

Summary

  • This work is the first installment of Qiṣṣah-i Shams Ābād (Story of Shams Abad) by Qamar al-Din Akbar Abadi. The author was the editor of Asʻad al-akhbār (The most propitious news), an early Urdu periodical published at a printing house of the same name in Agra, India, in circa 1840. (The appellation Akbar Abadi refers to Akbar Abad, the name of Agra during the Mughal Empire.) Qamar al-Din was a scholar of hadith and Islamic history and had mastery of Persian as well as Arabic. He wrote several books, including Tārīkh-i ḥukamā' (The history of learned men), Lamaʻāt-i Qamar (Glimmers from the Moon, the title of which references the name of the author), Inshā'-i khirad afrūz (The wisdom illumining composition), and Muntakhabāt-i Būstān (Selections from the Būstān), which is a partial translation into Urdu of this well-known work of Persian literature. Qiṣṣah-i Shams Ābād does not appear to address overtly political themes and focuses instead on a group of landowners in the town of Shamsabad, located to the southeast of Agra. However, the timing of its publication in the years leading to the first Indian Rebellion of 1857 and references on the cover to the lieutenant governor of the Northwest Provinces as well as to the "visitor general" (i.e., the colonial inspector) lend the work a certain historical interest. The first installment of Qiṣṣah-i Shams Ābād was printed at the Asʻad al-akhbar printing press in an edition of 3,000 copies. World Digital Library.

Names

  • Khān, Qamar al-Dīn, active 1852

Created / Published

  • Akbarʹābād [India] : Dar Maṭbaʻ-i Asʻad al-Akhbār Akbarʹābād bi-qālib-i ṭabʻ darʹāmad, 1852.

Headings

  • -  Shamsābād (Uttar Pradesh, India)--History
  • -  India

Notes

  • -  "Ḥiṣṣah-ʼi avval"--Page 27.
  • -  At head of title: Istiʻdād bī tarbiyat darīgh ast.
  • -  Cover title.
  • -  No more published?
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
  • -  In Persian; translated from Urdu.

Medium

  • 28 pages ; 21 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • DS486.S45 K53517 1852

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2012492376

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Rights & Access

The contents of the Library of Congress Persian Language Manuscript Project are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions and are free to use and reuse.

Credit Line: Library of Congress, African and Middle East Division, Near East Section Persian Manuscript Collection

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Chicago citation style:

Khān, Qamar Al-Dīn, Active 1852. Qiṣṣah-ʼi Shamsʹābād. [Akbarʹābād India: Dar Maṭbaʻ-i Asʻad al-Akhbār Akbarʹābād bi-qālib-i ṭabʻ darʹāmad, 1852] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2012492376/.

APA citation style:

Khān, Q. A. (1852) Qiṣṣah-ʼi Shamsʹābād. [Akbarʹābād India: Dar Maṭbaʻ-i Asʻad al-Akhbār Akbarʹābād bi-qālib-i ṭabʻ darʹāmad] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2012492376/.

MLA citation style:

Khān, Qamar Al-Dīn, Active 1852. Qiṣṣah-ʼi Shamsʹābād. [Akbarʹābād India: Dar Maṭbaʻ-i Asʻad al-Akhbār Akbarʹābād bi-qālib-i ṭabʻ darʹāmad, 1852] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2012492376/>.