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Delhi Persian 961

Record Id:
032-004341457
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-004341457
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TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Persian 961
Title:
1) Anis ul-arvah, 2) Dalil ul-'arifin
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
89 ff.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1550
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1550-1599
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Names:
Aurangzeb, Emperor of Hindustan, 1618-1707,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000109510021,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/6178410
Bakhtiyār Kākī, Muḥammad ibn Kamāl al-Dīn, 1186?-1237?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000049751850,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/2546162669640655500005
Bakhtiyār Kākī, Muḥammad ibn Kamāl al-Dīn, 1186?-1237?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000049751850,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/2546162669640655500005
Cishtī Sanjarī Ajmerī, Muʿīnuddīn Ḥasan, 1142?-1236?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000454007929,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/115144814502949780076
Cishtī Sanjarī Ajmerī, Muʿīnuddīn Ḥasan, 1142?-1236?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000454007929,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/115144814502949780076
Moinuddin, Abu Abdullah Ghulam, 1142?-1236?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000115834743,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/166561569
Muḥammad Zāhid
Niz̤āmuddīn Auliyā, 1236-1325,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083901058,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/66579134
Shāhī Aḥrārī
ʿIṣmat Allāh Chishtī
Subjects:
Sufi literature, Persian
Sufism--Early works to 1800
TEI:

India Office Library

Delhi Persian 961

1) Anis ul-arvah, 2) Dalil ul-'arifin

Contents

Summary of Contents: Collection of two Sufi works on attributed sayings or malfūẓāt. Not dated; circa sixteenth century. Transcribed by multiple hands in clear, early scribal nastaʿlīq on pale orange paper. Seals and owner statements. Detached later binding, with spine missing; marbled paper on exterior; descriptive labels; some folios wormeaten and loose; fragile.
1. ff. 1v-35r

Item a.

Collection of twenty-eight discourse or majālis, attributed to ʿUs̲mān Hārūnī, and committed to text by the famous Chishtī saint, Muʿīn al-Dīn Ḥasan Sijzī, while at the mosque of Junayd in Baghdad, in 633/1236.

Not dated; circa mid to late sixteenth century.

Colophon (f. 35r) states scribe's name as Shāhī Aḥrārī.

Owner's seals at beginning (f. 1r): 1) faqīr ʿIṣmat Allāh Chishtī 1173/1759-60; 2) mālikuhu al-ʿab[d] Muḥammad Zāhid ʿafī ʿanhu (circular seal:) [Muḥammad Zā]hid murīd-i Ḥaz̤rat Awrangzīb ʿĀlamgīr Pādshāh [regnal year] aḥad, 1070/1659

Language(s): Persian
Title: Anīs al-arvāḥ
Title: انیس الارواح
Author: Muʿīnuddīn Ḥasan Cishtī Sanjarī Ajmerī, 1142-1236 معين الدين حسن چشتى سنجرى
2. ff. 36v-89v
Author: Bakhtiyār Kākī, Muḥammad ibn Kamāl al-Dīn, 1186 or 1187-1236 or 1237 بختيار کاکى، محمد بن کمال الدين
Title: Dalīl al-ʿārifīn
Title: دليل العارفين

Item b.

Collection of nine discourses or majālis, grouped into two qism, recording the mystical teachings of the Chishtī saint, Muʿīn al-Dīn Ḥasan Sijzī, by his pupil and successor, himself a Chishtī saint, Bakhtiyār Kākī (d. 633/1236).

Not dated; circa mid to late sixteenth century.

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 89 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 216 × 133 mm.
Dimensions (written):

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1550-1599 16th century CE ; India, Iran or Central Asia

Record Sources

Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3. Available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts, manuscript number: MSS Eur E207/1_f028r (digital images currently unavailable)

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Bibliography

    MSS Eur E207/1_f028r (digital images currently unavailable)

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