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Delhi Persian 1327
- Record Id:
- 032-003392672
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003392672
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100054189099.0x000006
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- Format:
- TEI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Delhi Persian 1327
- Title:
- Sufi works of Shaykh ‘Abd al-Ahad Vahdat
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
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- 032-003392672
- Is part of:
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- Hierarchy:
- 032-003392672
- Container:
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 93 ff.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Arabic
Persian - Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1700
- End Date:
- 1750
- Date Range:
- 1700-1750
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
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- Names:
- Shaykh ʿAbd al-Aḥad Dihlavī Vaḥdat
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India Office Library
Delhi Persian 1327
Sufi works of Shaykh ‘Abd al-Ahad Vahdat
Contents
1 copy of Chār chaman by Shaykh ʿAbd al-Aḥad Dihlavī Vaḥdat
Language(s): Persian and ArabicEarly copy of an untitled compendium of Sufi poetic and prose compositions, with official letters (some inserted in margins), by the khalīfah of the Naqshbandī Mujaddidī school and poet, Shaykh ʿAbd al-Aḥad ibn Shaykh Muḥammad Saʿīd ibn Mujaddid-i Alf-i S̲ānī Shaykh Aḥmad Sihrindī Dihlavī, takhalluṣ Vaḥdat, also known as Miyān Gul (d. 1126/1714).
The work has been endorsed at the beginning by a later hand referring to the work as the Chār chaman, but this title is not mentioned anywhere in the work.
Defective at end.
Not dated at end.
Datable to the early eighteenth century.
Large to small scribal nastaʿlīq within tinted text panels and plain borders.
Not foliated.
Brown leather binding constructed from differing boards, damaged with broken spine.
Folios partially bound and loose.
Fragile.
IOL Microfilm 3142.
Physical Description
Form: codexMaterial: paperExtent: 93 ff.Dimensions (leaf): 222 × 145 mm.Hand(s)
History
Origin: 1700-1750 1700 - 1750 CE ; IndiaProvenance and Acquisition
Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859; administrative deposit India Office Library, 1876
1876
Government of India
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