INTRODUCTION. l xx j x 



Cairo Lib. = Khedivial Library. 

 d. c. — Died circa. 



Fihrist = Kitab al-Fihrist by Md. B. Ishaq B. Abl Ya'qub 



al-Nadlm. (d. a.h. 233 = a.d. 847) 

 Govt. Ind. Coll. ~ 



H. i£b. = Hajl Khalfa 

 Ha. = Hasan. 



• • • 



Hu. = Husayn. 



Colle 



Ind. Off. Lib. Cat. = India Office Library Catalogue. 

 Imp. Lib. = Imperial Library (Buhar Collection) , Calcutta. 

 J .R.A S. = Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 

 Lith. = Lithographed. 

 Md. = Muhammad. 

 M. as Mawlavl 



O.B.D. = Oriental Biographical Dictionary, Beale's. 

 O.P. Lib. a= Oriental Public Library, Bankipur. 

 Pers. = Persian. 



Rawdat al- Jannat = Rawdat al-Jannat flAhwali'l-'Ulaina'i 

 wa'1-Sadat by Baqir. 



In conclusion, I wish to express my gratitude to the owners 

 and superintendents of the libraries visited, and to those gentle- 

 men who rendered all possible assistance to the Mawlavl in the 

 discharge of his duties, particularly to Shams al-'Ulama' 

 Khan Bahadur Nawwab 'Aziz Jang Na'itl of Hyderabad, 

 through whose influence the Mawlavl had "access to several 

 splendid libraries of Hyderabad and Madras, to Hafiz Ahmad 

 'Alt Khan, Superintendent of Rampore State Library, who 

 rendered valuable assistance to the Mawlavl in the examination 

 of MSS., Mr. Abu'l-Hasan Klian, Secretary, Oriental Public 

 Library, Bankipore, and Mawlana 'Abd al-Bari of Lucknow. 



I am also grateful to Dr. F. H. Gravely for his valuable sug- 

 gestion as to the arrangement of the work, and to Mr. S. W. 

 Kemp, Hony. Librarian of the A.S.B., for the encouragement 

 and help given by him to the Mawlavl in the preparation of 

 the notices. 



A. Al-Ma'mijn Suhrawardy, 



Officer- in- charge of the Search for 



Arabic and Persian MSS. 



