Maṭbaʻ-i Mujtabāʼī (Urdu: المطبع المجتبائي) was a publishing house based in Delhi and Lucknow that flourished between the 1890s and 1930s. The press published a wide range of works in Arabic, Urdu and the Persian Language. It was among a number publishing houses that flourished at the time such as Nawal Kishore Press.
Notable publications include the sayings of Ḥaz̤rat Shāh ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq Aḥmad Ridaulvī who belonged to the Ṣābirī branch of the Chishti order. He was the third in this order after Ṣābir Kalerī and died in 1433-34 CE.[1]
A number of the lithographs of the publishing house have been scanned and are available through several libraries, for example the Islamic Lithographs digital collection at McGill University Library.[2] McGill has made some of the works available via the Internet Archive, for example the Laṭāʼif-i Quddūsī of ʻAbd al-Quddūs Gangūhī (1453-1537 CE).[3] Another important source for the press is the online digital library of the Chughutai Public Library, Lahore.[4]
One work from the press is also available from the Islamic Heritage Project at Harvard University.[5]
References
edit- ^ Ridaulvī, ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq Aḥmad. Anvār Al-ʻuyūn Fī Asrār Al-maknūn: Mutarjam-i Urdū (Lakhnaʼū: Maṭbaʻ-i Mujtabāʼī, 1906).
- ^ For the homepage see: https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/islamic_lithographs/index.php.
- ^ See https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-105273-338.
- ^ https://www.chughtailibrary.com/digital_library/index.php.
- ^ https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/islamic-heritage-project/catalog/40-990031657010203941.