Musā ibn Khalil ibn Taghi ibn Jafar ibn Mohammad Ebrāhim Māzandarāni (

Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...

: موسی بن خلیل بن تقی بن جعفر بن محمد ابراهیم مازندرانی),

scribe and scholar of nineteenth century

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. Musa was born into a family of good standing which originated in the northern

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ian region of Mazandaran.

History

As far as is known, he lived and worked in the city of

Lahijan Lahijan ( fa, لاهیجان, Lāhijān, also known as, Lāyjon in Gilaki) is a city near the Caspian Sea and the capital of Lahijan County, Gilan Province, Iran. According to the 2016 census, its population was 167,544 in 58,378 families. La ...

where already his father had lived. He mentions the city as his place of residence in his work signing beside his name "resident of Lahijan" (Persian: ساكن لاهیجان) while using "Māzandarāni" as a reference to his region of origin according to common Persian practice in 19th century. Lahijan, a town of the

ian province Gilan bordering Mazandaran, birthplace of the Iranian

Buyid dynasty The Buyid dynasty ( fa, آل بویه, Āl-e Būya), also spelled Buwayhid ( ar, البويهية, Al-Buwayhiyyah), was a Shia Iranian dynasty of Daylamite origin, which mainly ruled over Iraq and central and southern Iran from 934 to 1062. Coupl ...

and home to

Zahed Gilani Taj Al-Din Ebrahim ibn Rushan Amir Al-Kurdi Al-Sanjani (or Sinjani; Persian:تاج الدين ابراهيم كردی سنجانی)‎ (1218 – 1301), titled Sheikh Zahed (or Zahid) Gilani, was an Iranian Grandmaster (murshid-i kamil) of the f ...

, the 13th century spiritual master of the eponymous ancestor of the Safavid dynasty

Safi-ad-din Ardabili Safi-ad-din Ardabili ( fa, شیخ صفی‌الدین اردبیلی ''Ṣāfī ad-Dīn Isḥāq Ardabīlī''; 1252/3 – 1334) was a poet, mystic, teacher and Sufi master. He was the son-in-law and spiritual heir of the Sufi master Zahed Gila ...

, was one of the oldest towns of the region with a long and vivid intellectual life.

Manuscripts

According to the Iranian Books and Manuscripts Data Bank, there are two original manuscripts by Musa ibn Khalil Mazandarani: * " Nān va Halvā" (Persian: نان وحلوا, "Bread and Halva", dated 1286 AH, i. e. 1869 AD) by

Shaikh Bahai Bahāʾ al‐Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al‐ʿĀmilī (also known as Sheikh Baha'i, fa, شیخ بهایی) (18 February 1547 – 1 September 1621) was an Iranian ArabEncyclopedia of Arabic Literature'. Taylor & Francis; 1998. . p. 85. Sh ...

, Muhammad Baha' al-Din Amili (1546-1622), whose writings, i. a. his "Anatomy of the Heavens" ("Tashrih Al-Aflāk", Persian & Arabic: تشریح الافلاک) on astronomy where he supports a heliocentric model, have been object of further studies. "Nān va Halvā" contains allegorical poems in Masnavi style treating a scope of topics such as human behaviour, morality and social structure and containing satirical elements. * „Hedāyat ol Mo'menin elal Hagh al Mobin“ (Persian & Arabic: هداية المومنين الي الحق المبين-في معرفة اصول الدين) by Morteza ibn Abdolvahab Hosseini Lahiji on principles of religion, dated 1869 (1286 AH).Iranian Books and Manuscripts Data Bank (بانك اطلاعات كتب و نسخ خطی). Page titled ''Hedāyat ol Mo'menin elal Hagh al Mobin'' (Persian). Link

accessed 4/5/2016

References

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