SOS Khojki

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Why a special section on Khojki? In fact many Ismaili documents have been preserved thanks to this secret scripts of the Ismailis. Most of these documents are in Indic languages but we also have Khojki documents in Persian (Farsi) and Arabic.

Put in this section all information related to Khojki scripts and documents (theology, history, others) preserved through the ages.

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There are few tombs in Lassi cemetery of Karachi, Pakistan with Khojki inscriptions . These are obviously very old and the inscriptions are not perfectly legible. here is the link to some pics of the inscriptions and the tombs

https://twitter.com/IsmailiHeritage/sta ... 9897569280

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Here is a catalogue of Khojki Manuscripts in the Collection of the Ismailia Association of Pakistan in 1971

The catalogue was prepared by Zawahir Noorally and covers 114 manuscripts which were sent with subsequent arrivals to the IIS in London. These manuscripts were later scanned at the same time as other Khojki manuscripts received from institutional and private sources.

http://ismaili.net/source/z-noorally-kh ... alogue.pdf

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Here is a partial list of the Table of Content of some of the manuscripts in the collection of the Heritage Society. This list was prepared 25 years ago and is nw been completed within the project to soon put online all of the scans of the complete collection.


Catalogue of Khojkî Manuscripts available through the Heritage Society

http://65.38.95.204/drupal5/node/23075

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Here is an article recently published in Kutchmitra newspaper

The article is written by Nazim Merchant

[Damanialijan]

This is the catalogue of Zawahir Moir (made in 1971 for IAP) in Searchable and Printable Form:


https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fmUrZI ... sp=sharing

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Dating Khojki Manuscript hs0439:

Recently the Heritage Society received what appeared very old and damaged 30 pages remaining from a manuscript preserved up to recently in the Juma Bhagat Family. The manuscript numbered hs0439 is missing many pages and is eaten by termites. Visually it appeared to be 300 to 400 years old. Needless to say it is in dire condition and and in need of restoration and conservation.

A page of the manuscript was sent to the Radiochronology Lab of the Laval University in Canada and was transform into graphite at the beginning of this month of June 2022 for Carbon 14 dating. There are very few ways to date accurately manuscripts. Carbon 14 dating gives a percentage probability for a range of dates.

A Carbon 14 report was received today, jointly prepared by Laval University and the Keck Carbon Cycle AMS Facility of the University of California (USA)

While the median probable date of the sample taken from hs0439 is reported to be AD 1763, there is a 20% possibility according to the same report that it is written between AD 1670 and AD 1683. If this is the case, this manuscript would be older than the previous oldest hs0376 manuscript of the Heritage Society dated 1744 AD .

In any case, the manuscript appear to be old enough to be part of those manuscripts that are worth to be restored.