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Delhi Persian 1135
- Record Id:
- 032-004341531
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- Delhi Persian 1135
- Title:
- Miscellaneous mystical works and extracts, 7 works (a-g)
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 118 ff.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Persian
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1705
- End Date:
- 1707
- Date Range:
- 1705-1707
- Calendar:
- Hijri-qamari
- Era:
- CE
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- Names:
- Aḥmad Sirhindī, 1563-1624,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000116169247,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/32839461
Bahādur Shāh I, fl 1707-1712,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/314901452
Bahāʾ al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Ibrāhīm
Bakhtiyār Ūshī
Farid al-dīn, Shaykh, 1175?-1265,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000359146218,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/212332446
Farid al-dīn, Shaykh, 1175?-1265,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000359146218,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/212332446
Muḥyī al-Dīn
Sayyid ʿAtīq Allāh Sihrindī
ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph,, 0600?-0661,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000447153020,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/34436377
ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph,, 0600?-0661,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000447153020,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/34436377
ʿAbd al-Jalīl Lakhnavī Ṣiddīqī
ʿAbd al-Vāḥid ibn Zayd
ʿIshq Allāh ibn ʿĀrif Sihrindī Qādirī
Ḥabīb ʿAjamī
Ḥamīd al-Dīn Nāgawrī
Ḥasan of Baṣrah, 0641?-0729?,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000071448102,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/90045570
Ḥasan of Baṣrah, 0641?-0729?,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000071448102,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/90045570 - Subjects:
- Islamic ethics--Early works to 1800
Sufi literature, Persian - TEI:
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India Office Library
Delhi Persian 1135
Miscellaneous mystical works and extracts, 7 works (a-g)
Contents
Summary of Contents: Collection of multiple works on Ṣūfī didactic treatises, along with genealogy and koranic exegesis. Not dated, although several tracts are individually dated to the beginning of Emperor Bahādur Shāh I’s reign, in the former southern frontier cities of Aurangabad and Burhanpur, and completed by scribes from Sihrind/Sirhind, associated with the Mujaddidīyah branch of the Naqshbandīyah Sufis. Worm-eaten and water-stained; fragile.1. ff. 1-27rItem a.
Collection of forty brief letters on mystical doctrine and practice by the seventeenth-century Sunnī saint, ʿAbd al-Jalīl Lakhnavī Ṣiddīqī. One of the letters is addressed to the contemporary Naqshbandī saint, Aḥmad Farūqī Sihrindī (d. 1034/1624).
Lacunae after the first folio.
Not dated.
Language(s): PersianTitle: Maktūbāt-i ʿAbd al-JalīlTitle: مكتوبات عبد الجليل2. ff. 27v-58rTitle: Favāʾid al-sālikīnTitle: فوائد السالكينItem b.
Compilation of the religious discourses of the Chishtī saint Bakhtiyār Ūshī (d. 633/1235-6) by his pupil and khalīfah, Farīd al-Dīn Masʿūd Ganj Shakar (d. 664/1265).
Dated colophon: completed by Sayyid ʿAtīq Allāh Sihrindī at Burhānpūr, 29 Shaʿbān 1117/16 December 1705.
Language(s): Persian & Arabic3. ff. 59v-68rItem c.
Tract on the genealogies of fourteen Ṣūfī lineages traced back to ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib through Ḥasan Baṣrī and his two pupils, Ḥabīb ʿAjamī and ʿAbd al-Vāḥid ibn Zayd. The author is not named.
Dated: 1 Ramaz̤ān 1117/17 December 1705.
Language(s): PersianTitle: Risālah-'i chahārdah khānavādahTitle: رسالهٴ چهارده خانواده4. ff. 68v-76vLanguage(s): PersianItem d.
Untitled mystical allegory relating the story of a king named ʿAql (mind) ruling the land of Badan (body). His son, Dil (heart), conceives of the desire to possess the water of life. This work describes the adventures of Prince Dil and his courtier, Naz̤ar (speculation).
The author is not identified.
Not dated.
5. ff. 76v-79vLanguage(s): PersianItem e.
Untitled brief treatise setting out the beliefs and practises expected of a novice on the path of Sufism, hoping to join the Naqshbandīyah.
The author is not identified.
Not dated.
Title: Risālah-'i ṭarīq-i tavajjuh-i khvāja'hāTitle: رسالهٴ طريق توجّه خواجها6. ff. 79v-90Language(s): PersianItem f.
Treatise advising ṣūfī novices on the relative value of worldly existence and the blessings of the hereafter, divided into two aṣl, by an unnamed author.
Dated colophon: completed by Muḥyī al-Dīn at Aurangabad in the first regnal year of Emperor Bahādur Shāh I, that is 1119/1707.
Title: Vaṣīyat'nāmahTitle: وصيّت نامه7. ff. 94-118Language(s): Persian and ArabicItem g.
Fragment of a ṣūfī commentary on the ninety-third chapter of the Qurʾān (Sūrah Z̤uḥá), usually entitled Miṣbāḥ al-ʿāshiqīn, by Bahāʾ al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Ibrāhīm, a descendent of the saint Ḥamīd al-Dīn Nāgawrī (d. 643/1245-6).
The present copy omits the title and all āyāt after the first two.
Dated colophon: completed by ʿIshq Allāh ibn ʿĀrif Sihrindī Qādirī at Burhānpūr, 11 Shaʿbān 1119/7 November 1707.
Title: Miṣbāḥ al-ʿāshiqīnTitle: مصباح العاشقينPhysical Description
Form: codexMaterial: paperExtent: 118 ff.Dimensions (leaf): 207 × 111 mm.Dimensions (written):Hand(s)
History
Origin: 1705-12-16-1707-11-07 29 Shaʿbān 1117-11 Shaʿbān 1119 (16 December 1705 - 7 November 1707) AH Aurangabad and Burhanpur, Deccan ; IndiaRecord 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 E207/13_f078r (digital images currently unavailable)Availability
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MSS Eur E207/13_f078r (digital images currently unavailable)Funding of Cataloguing
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