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Delhi Persian 1010

Record Id:
032-004341485
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Delhi Persian 1010
Title:
Miscellaneous works on Sufism by Khvajah Ahrar, 2 items (a-b)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
56 ff. (+1)
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Arabic
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1649
End Date:
1750
Date Range:
1649-1750
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Aḥrār, ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Maḥmūd, 1403?-1490?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000102383736,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/485149294387580522619
Khvājah ʿUbayd Allāh Aḥrār, 1403?-1490?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000102383736,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/485149294387580522619,
Khvājah ʿUbayd Allāh Aḥrār, 1403?-1490?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000102383736,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/485149294387580522619,
Subjects:
Sufi literature, Persian
Sufism--Early works to 1800
TEI:

India Office Library

Delhi Persian 1010

Miscellaneous works on Sufism by Khvajah Ahrar, 2 items (a-b)

Contents

Summary of Contents: Summary: Collection of two works on or by the Naqshbandi Sufi, Khvājah Aḥrār. Volume not dated; item a dated 15 Ramaz̤ān 1059/22 September 1649; later replacements. Careful scribal nastaʿlīq, with shikastah āmīz and Indian taʿlīq. Annotations and corrections in margins. Stamped and Persian foliation. Lacking original binding. Binding damaged (tooled reddish brown leather exterior embellished with medallions, fine combed marbled paper pasted in two layers as doublures). Folios unbound; cropped, wormholes, later repairs; text damaged by stains and smudging. Condition fragile.
1. ff. 1v-50r

Item a.

Untitled collection of the dicta or fiqarāt ascribed to the Ṣūfī saint, Khvājah ʿUbayd Allāh Aḥrār (d. circa 895/1490).

Dated colophon (f. 50r): completed at Akbarābād (Agra), Wednesday, 15 Ramaz̤ān 1059/22 September 1649.

Careful scribal nastaʿlīq. Folio 1 is a replacement by a later hand in rough Indian taʿlīq, similar to that found in item b.

Interlinear annotations and corrections as well as in margins.

Two letters of Khvājah ʿAbd al-Bāqī reproduced on folio 50v.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
Author: Aḥrār, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Maḥmūd, 1403 or 1404-1489 or 1490 خواجه احرار
2. ff. 51r-56v
Author: Aḥrār, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Maḥmūd, 1403 or 1404-1489 or 1490 خواجه احرار
Title: Risālat vālidīyah
Title: رسالة والديّه

Item b.

Rare treatise on the tenets of the Naqshbandi school of Sufism by Sayyid Naṣīr al-Dīn ʿUbayd Allāh Aḥrār Ghijduvānī, known as Khvājah Aḥrār (d. 895/1490), conventionally thought to be lost, and later translated into Chaghatay Turkic by the Timurid or Mughal ruler, Emperor Ẓahīr al-Dīn Muḥammad Bābur (d. 937/1530).

The work was written at the request of the author’s father, hence the title.

Not dated at end.

Oblique scribal shikastah āmīz continuing from folio 55 in rough Indian taʿlīq, probably by a different hand, similar to the replacement folio beginning item a.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 56 ff. (+1)
Dimensions (leaf): 237 × 135 mm.
Dimensions (written):

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1649-09-22-1750 15 Ramaz̤ān 1059 (22 September 1649 - 1750) AH Akbarābād (Agra), Uttar Pradesh State ; India, Agra

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 E207/3_f005r (digital images currently unavailable)

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Bibliography

    MSS Eur E207/3_f005r (digital images currently unavailable)

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