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Delhi Persian 1036

Record Id:
032-004341504
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Delhi Persian 1036
Title:
Silk al-suluk by Nakhshabi
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
118 ff. (+1)
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Arabic
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1685
End Date:
1685
Date Range:
1685
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
Muḥammad Riz̤āʾ ibn Muḥammad Anbiyāʾ
Nakhshabī, Z̤iyāʼ al-Dīn, d 1350,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000109277418,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/97126146
Nakhshabī, Z̤iyāʼ al-Dīn, d 1350,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000109277418,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/97126146
Shaykh Sulaymān Ghaws̲ Ṣiddīqī
Shaykh ʿAbd A[llāh] Abdāl
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India Office Library

Delhi Persian 1036

Silk al-suluk by Nakhshabi

Contents

1 copy of Silk al-sulūk by Z̤iyāʾ al-Dīn Nakhshabī

Author: Z̤iyāʾ al-Dīn Nakhshabī ضياء الدين نخشبى
Title: Silk al-sulūk
Title: سلك السلوك
Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Treatise epitomising Sufism, its technical terms and principles, in refine prose and verse by Z̤iyāʾ al-Dīn Nakhshabī (d. 751/1350), author of the famous collection of tales, Ṭūṭī'nāmah.

The work comprises a hundred and fifty-one aphorisms, each termed silk.

Dated colophon (f. 118v): completed by Muḥammad Riz̤āʾ ibn Muḥammad Anbiyāʾ, descendent of Shaykh ʿAbd A[llāh] Abdāl (?) and Shaykh Sulaymān Ghaws̲ Ṣiddīqī, resident of Chanderi, Friday, 15 Jumādá II in RY 29 of Emperor Awrangzīb (ʿĀlamgīr I), 1096/19 May 1685.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 118 ff. (+1)
Dimensions (leaf): 219 × 134 mm.
Dimensions (written):

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1685-05-19 15 Jumādá II 1096 AH; 19 May 1685 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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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 E207/2_f018r (digital images currently unavailable)

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    MSS Eur E207/2_f018r (digital images currently unavailable)

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