Thank you very much, John, - for this music and for your kind words!
J> Yan,
J> Wonderful! You beat me to it with this news... I had become diverted, I
J> will admit, by some excellent music, by a name-sake:
J> https://tune.pk/video/1259282/jamal-ud-din-faqir-haq-allah-sofi-kalam
J> We are currently working on the rescue of a substantial C&MG archive,
J> including some material which the old Readers' Guide recorded as by
J> Kipling. More news soon, I hope.
J> Best regards,
J> John
J> 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
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