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ff. 1v-263: Ālāyishhā-ī ka badānhā ālūda shud Āiyna-yi ḥaqq-numā;

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The Ālāyishhā-ī ka badānhā ālūda shud Āiyna-yi ḥaqq-numā az ṣayqalgarash (1656) is a Persian polemical treatise attributed to Aimé Chézaud (S.J. d. 1664). The Ālāyishhā is also known with the title Māsiḥ-i Miṣqal-i ṣafā-i Āiyna-yi ḥaqq-numā, which appears in the explicit. The Ālāyishhā is part of a cycle of polemical texts composed by Christian and Muslim authors that began in Mughal India with the Āiyna-yi ḥaqq-numā by Jerome Xavier (S.J., d. 1617), and is a Persian response to the Miṣqal-i ṣafā dar tajliyyat va taṣfiyyat-i Āiyna-yi ḥaqq-numā (1622) by the Shiite polemicist Sayyid Aḥmad bin Zain al-‘Ābidīn al-‘Alavī al-‘Āmilī al-Iṣfahānī (d. c. 1644-51). The Ālāyishhā is divided into two volumes. Both the first and second volume of the Ālāyishhā present a large number of Qur’ānic quotations that the author used to support his arguments. The only extant manuscript copy of the first volume is in the Library of St Petersburg University (Ms. 563). Extant manuscript copies of the second volume are available in Paris and Naples (Bilbioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III, MS. III.F.29). According to Francis Richard, the manuscript copies in Paris and Naples are transcribed by the same copyist.

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