#manuscripts #ijazat are extremely significant sources for #intellectual_history MS Mar’ashi Qum 6446 1/

This is a license to transmit #hadith of Sayyid Husayn Kashani dated Sha’ban 1288/1871 2/

The test begins with #hadith on the importance of transmitting #knowledge of the #Imams 3/

It then continues with the different chains of authority for the major works of #Shii hadith mostly going through #Majlisi and #ShahidThani 4/

A list of the major #hadith compilations that are authorised are also given including those established by the #Safavid period as the #FourBooks of the first three Muhammads 5/

As well as the compilations of the #Safavid period of the later Muhammads such as Wasa’il al-Shi’a, al-Wafi and Bihar al-anwar 6/

There are other types of #ijazat on the practice of legal reasoning and #ijtihad or teaching certain fields and so forth 7/

This particular text tells us much about the chains of transmission, the scholarly networks and the state of inquiry in the #manquait in #Shii contexts in the late #Safavid and #Qajar periods 8/