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Delhi Persian 1030A

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032-004341500
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Delhi Persian 1030A
Title:
Miscellaneous works on Sufism, 6 works (a-e)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
111 ff.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Arabic
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1740
End Date:
1840
Date Range:
1740-1840
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Khvājah Muḥammad Mīr
Mawlānā Sayyid Shāh Jamāl Allāh
Quṭb al-Dīn Muḥammad Ashraf Ḥaydar al-Ḥusayn al-Dihlavī [Khujandī]
Sayyid Jamāl
Shaykh Muḥammad Zubayr
Shaykh Pīr Muḥammad ibn Shaykh Amān Allāh
Subjects:
Sufi literature, Persian
Sufism--Early works to 1800
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Delhi Persian 1030A

Miscellaneous works on Sufism, 6 works (a-e)

Contents

Summary of Contents: Collection of miscellaneous works on Sufism. Defective at end. Volume not dated. Dateable to circa early nineteenth century. Arabic passages in rough naskh, and Persian in awkward, but distinct, nastaʿlīq. Stamped foliation throughout. Original covers lost; folios unbound. Wrapped in a detached and torn sheet of printed legislation for British India dated 1815; occasional faint Bengali notes. Condition fragile.
1. ff. 1r-97v

Item a.

Naqshbandī treatise on z̲ikr or divine remembrances and other observations by [Sayyid Shāh] Quṭb al-Dīn Muḥammad Ashraf Ḥaydar al-Ḥusayn al-Dihlavī [Khujandī], the khalīfah or successor to the Naqshbandī Ṣūfī, Shaykh Muḥammad Zubayr (d. 1152/1740), in whose honour this work is named.

The work consists of three faṣl.

Arabic quotations and formulae in red ink.

Not dated at end; volume date from after the author’s death, thus post-1740.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
Title: Vahb-i Zubayr
Title: وهب زبير
Author: Quṭb al-Dīn Muḥammad Ashraf Ḥaydar al-Ḥusayn al-Dihlavī Khujandī
2. ff. 97v-102v

Item b.

Untitled metaphysical essay treating man as both microcosm and macrocosm by an unnamed author.

Not dated at end.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
3. ff. 102v-106r

Item c.

Qādirī Ṣūfī ijāzat'nāmah or licence in which the spiritual genealogy of the subject, Khvājah Muḥammad Mīr, is traced through his deceased pīr and murshid, Mawlānā Sayyid Shāh Jamāl Allāh via prominent members of the Mujaddidī Naqshbandīyah.

The work begins with a doxology etcetera in Arabic with the rest in Persian, transcribed in naskh throughout.

Not dated at end.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
Title: Shajarat ṭayyibat Qādirīyah
Title: شجرة طيّبة قادريّة
4. ff. 106r-107v
Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Item d.

Mas̲navī on the Naqshbandī spiritual genealogy of Sayyid Jamāl [i.e. Sayyid Shāh Jamāl Allāh?] by an unnamed poet.

Text crossed out with amendments in margins.

Not dated at end.

Transcribed in rough nastaʿlīq.

Title: Shajarat muṭahharat Naqshbandīyah
Title: شجرة مطهّرة نقشبنديّه
5. ff. 107v-111v
Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Item e.

Collection of two spiritual genealogies in prose:

1) The Chishtī Order, entitled Shajarah-'i silsilah-'i ʿāliyah-'i Chishtīyah, by Shaykh Pīr Muḥammad ibn Shaykh Amān Allāh (ff. 107v-109v). Not dated at end.

2) The Suhravardī Order, entitled Shajarah-'i munavvarah-'i Suhravardīyah, by an unnamed author, and which is defective at end (ff. 109v-111v). Not dated.

Author: Shaykh Pīr Muḥammad ibn Shaykh Amān Allāh

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 111 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 171 mm.
Dimensions (written):

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1740-1840 18th-19th centuries CE ; India

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 E207/4_f003r (digital images currently unavailable)

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Bibliography

    MSS Eur E207/4_f003r (digital images currently unavailable)

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