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Tadhkirah (تذكرة, also transliterated Tazkera, Tadkera , Tazkirah, etc.) is an Arabic term for "memorandum" or "admonition". It is frequently used as part of the title of literary works of the nature of authoritative collections or summaries. It is also the modern Arabic term for "ticket" (in the sense of a receipt for payment of a fee for transportation, admission etc.)
Examples of the use of the word Tadhkirah include:
- al-Tadhkira al-Harawiya fi al-hiyal al-harabiya ("al-Harawi's admonition regarding war stratagems") by Ali ibn abi bakr al-Harawi (d. 1215)
- Tazkirat ul Khwas by Sibt ibn al-Jawzi (d. 1256)
- Tazkirat al-Awliya (13th century), biographies of Sufi saints
- Al-Tadhkirah fi'ilm (13th century) by Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (d. 1274)
- Tadhkirat al-huffaz (14th century), biographies of hadith masters
- Sharh al-tadhkirah (16th century), a commentary on al-Tusi's tadhkirah by Al-Birjandi
- a work by Dawud al-Antaki (d. 1599) on medicine, natural history and the occult sciences
- Tadhkirat al-Nisyan (c. 1750), a biographical dictionary of the Moroccan rulers of Timbuktu, see Askiya Dynasty
- Tazkirat al-umara (1830), a Persian-language work by James Skinner (East India Company officer)
- Tazkirah Khandan Azizi by Hakim Abdul Aziz (d. 1911)
- Tadhkirah (Ahmadiyya) (1976), a collection of texts by Ahmadiyya founder Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1873–1908)
- Tadhkirat al-Fuqahā (1997), a work on Shiite jurisprudence
- Tezkire, Ottoman bibliographical dictionaries of poets and poetry
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