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Il. (e's : _) Sharh-i-Shafiyah, a Persian commentary 
on Ibn-i-Hajib’s (died 646 A.H.) Arabic work Ash-Shafiyyah by 
Ghulam ‘Ali whose father Ghulam Muhammad was one of the 
compilers of the well-known work called Fatawa-i-‘Alamgiri. 
The author who flourished during the time of Aurangzib and 
ammad 
of the Emperor for his learned daughter Zibun Nessa Begum 
who wished to learn Arabic Grammar. The commentator 
wrote every day only so much as would suffice for the daily 
lesson of the princess. 
TH. (erie) el) Na&fi‘ut-Talibin by Muhammad Hafiz 
Jalandhari, a pupil of Sayyid Rih who adopted the Takhallus 
Rihi (d. 1220 A.H.) composed in 1184 A.H. The work is divi- © 
ded into three sections--I. Genealogy of Akbar traced from 
Adam with a short account of the Emperor and his ancestors. — 
chiefly based on Akbar Namah, Ain-i-Akbari, Jahangir-namah, 
‘Alamgir-namah and Tarikh-i-‘Abbasi. II. Commentary on — 
the letters and Farmans of Akbar contained in the Ist dattar 
of Abu‘l-Fazl. III. A short commentary on the 2nd daftar 
of Abu‘l-Fazl. s 
TV. (aabbl} wisai) Nafahat-us-Sabatiyah. This uniq 
and valuable copy, written in the author’s own hand, consists 
of 13 short treatises on various subjects. The author Muham- 
mad Jawad Sabati, better known as Lutfi, who wrote these trea- 
tises in course of his travels, was a Christian and in one of ‘ 
letters (No. 2) designates himself as  (,bliled) blle eNi0 Ub 
lado copra) i a : 
Search for Manuscripts of Bardic Chronicles. 
is the discovery 
