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Yan, Wonderful! You beat me to it with this news... I had become diverted, I will admit, by some excellent music, by a name-sake: https://tune.pk/video/1259282/jamal-ud-din-faqir-haq-allah-sofi-kalam We are currently working on the rescue of a substantial C&MG archive, including some material which the old Readers' Guide recorded as by Kipling. More news soon, I hope. Best regards, John On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 10:46 AM, Yan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Dear Quaisra, > > Are you looking for the "List of the sacred relics kept in the Lahore Fort > together with a brief history of the same" 7-paged catalogue by Faquir > Saiyad Jamal alDin? It is a booklet printed by "Сivil and Military Gazette > Press" in 1877. > > You can find a digital copy here: > http://real-ms.mtak.hu/12551/1/000760828.pdf > > (See also Muslim Studies, by Ignac Goldziher, http://documentslide.com/ > documents/goldziher-muslim-studies-2.html) > > One of the richest treasuries of such precious objects is the PadishahI > mosque at Lahore. I have in front of me a printed booklet with the title > List of the sacred relics kept in the Lahore Fort together with a brief > history of the same, by Faquir Saiyad Jamal al- Din (Lahore, Civil and > Military Gazette Press, r877, 7 pp.). This booklet contains a catalogue of > the relics kept in the mosque at Lahore, seven of which belong to the > Prophet himself, three are traced to 'Ali, including a sipara of the Koran > written by 'All himself, two items are 'things belonging to the Lady of > Paradise, the daughter of the Prophet,' five belong to the Imam > al-I;fusayn, three to Ghawth al-A (evidently 'Abd al-Qadir GUanI); there > follow eight items called 'miscellaneous' of which a tooth of Uways > al-Qarani (d., above p. r40) is probably the greatest oddity. These sacred > treasures, which are said to have been partly taken from the caliphal city > by Timllr during the siege of Damascus in r40r and partly given to him as > presents by the emissaries of the defeated sultan Yildirim Bayazid, were > taken to India by Timiir's great descendant Babur. > > Hope it may help, > > Yan S. > > > J> Can anyone suggest how best our correspondent can find the CMG article > he is looking for ? > > J> Good wishes to all > > J> John R > > J> Sent from my iPhone > > J> Begin forwarded message: > > >> From: Qaisra Khan <[log in to unmask]> > >> Date: 23 March 2017 at 11:47:15 GMT > >> To: [log in to unmask] > >> Subject: civil and military gazette > > >> Hello- > > >> I came across your website with great interest and wondered if I could > ask you a question? You may know the answer to it. > > >> I was looking for a specific article in the civil and military gazette > from 1877 which I cannot seem to locate. I wondered if you may have ever > come across it, or if you have access to the archive of the gazette? It is > a 7 page article by Faquir Saiyad Jamal alDin on the relics in the Mosque > of Lahore. > > >> You must get lots of random requests so I apologise in advance, but any > help at all would be much appreciated. > > >> Kind regards, > >> Qaisra Khan >