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Delhi Persian 1154

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Delhi Persian 1154

Title:

Miscellaneous Sufi works, 14 works (a-n)

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Oriental Manuscripts

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India Office Library

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

254 ff.

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Languages:

Arabic
Persian

Scripts:

Arabic

Start Date:

1684

End Date:

1699

Date Range:

1684-1699

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Hijri-qamari

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Islam--History
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Delhi Persian 1154

Miscellaneous Sufi works, 14 works (a-n)

Summary of Contents: Fine collection or majmūʿah without title, comprised of sixteen miscellaneous Ṣūfī works and excerpts, produced for a certain Sulṭān-i Jalālī. Dated 28 Ṣafar 1[0]95/15 February 1684. Illuminated sar'lawḥ at the beginning of many works; gold-ruled jadāval throughout; burnished papers, some heavily sprinkled with silver. Annotated by scribe and in later hands. Fragile: wormholes; net overlay on some damaged folios; folios remounted in IOL red leather binding dated 25 May 1915. IOL Microfilm 37 containing DP 1154 (1). No ownership marks.

1. ff. 1v-10v

Item a.

Untitled tractate dealing with aspects of Islamic theology and eschatology, written at the behest of Sulṭān-i Jalālī.

Author not identified.

Illuminated sar'lawḥ (f. 1v).

Dated colophon (f. 10v): 28 Ṣafar 1[0]95/15 February 1684.

Language(s): Persian & Arabic

2. ff. 11r-15r

Item b.

Untitled tractate dealing with the nature of God and creation.

Author not identified.

Not dated.

Language(s): Persian

3. ff. 15r-59r

Item c.

Tractate on metaphores for recognising God ascribed to Shaykh Abū al-Fatḥ Shihāb al-Dīn Yaḥyá "Maqtūl" ibn Ḥabash al-Suhravardī (d. 587/1191).

The work is divided into three bāb.

Illuminated ʿunvān (f. 15r).

Not dated.

Language(s): Persian

Author: Suhrawardī, Yaḥyá ibn Ḥabash, 1152 or 1153-1191 شهاب الدين سهروردى

Title: Īzad shinākht

Title: ايزد شناخت

4. ff. 59v-79

Language(s): Persian

Item d.

Treatise on the comprehension of the ultimate reality through six degrees by Abū al-Fatḥ ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿAlī Qurayshī, a disciple of the Chishtī saint Sayyid Muḥammad Gīsūdarāz (d. 825/1422).

Illuminated sar'lawḥ (f. 59v). Rubrication in white ink. Folios 67-79 sprinkled with fine to course silver flecks.

Not dated.

Title: Risālah-'i mushāhadāt

Title: رسالهٴ مشاهدات

Author: Abū al-Fatḥ ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿAlī Qurayshī ابو الفتح علاء الدّين على قريشى

5. ff. 80v-100v

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Item e.

Treatise on Ṣūfī doctrines relating to God, the universe, and man's destiny in this world and the hereafter, by Saʿd al-Dīn Maḥmūd Shabistarī "Nūrī" (d. 720/1320), author of the Gulshan-i rāz.

The work is divided into eight bāb.

Illuminated sar'lawḥ (f. 80v). Rubrication in white ink. Folios sprinkled with fine to course silver flecks throughout.

Not dated.

Title: Ḥaqq al-yaqīn fī maʿrifat Rabb al-ʿālamīn

Title: حقّ اليقين فى معرفت ربّ العالمين

Author: Saʿd al-Dīn Maḥmūd Shabistarī سعد الدّين محمود شبسترى

6. ff. 101r-102v

Language(s): Persian

Item f.

Untitled epitome of Ṣūfī principles by an anonymous author.

Illuminated sar'lawḥ (f. 101r). Rubrication in white ink. Folios sprinkled with fine to course silver flecks throughout.

Not dated.

7. ff. 103v-120v

Language(s): Persian

Item g.

Definitions and explanations of Ṣūfī terms and doctrines with illustrative rubāʿī poems conventionally entitled Lavāʾiḥ, by the celebrated mystic, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī, whose name does not appear until the end.

Illuminated sar'lawḥ (f. 103v). Rubrication in white ink. Folios sprinkled with fine to course silver flecks throughout.

Annotations in margins by later owners.

Not dated.

Title: Lavāʾiḥ

Title: لوائح

Author: Jāmī, 1414-1492 نور الدين عبد الرحمن جامى

8. ff. 121v-128v

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Item h.

Untitled commentary on the Islamic credo, by an unnamed author.

Illuminated sar'lawḥ (f. 121v). Rubrication in white ink. Folios sprinkled with fine to course silver flecks throughout.

Not dated.

9. ff. 129v-137v

Language(s): Persian

Item i.

Ṣūfī discourse consisting of edifying aphorisms and anecdotes in prose and verse, by Burhān-i ʿĀrif who may be the same as Burhān al-Dīn ibn Kabīr Muḥammad al-Gujaratī al-Shaṭṭārī (d. 1083/1672-3).

Illuminated sar'lawḥ (f. 129v). Rubrication in white ink. Folios sprinkled with fine to course silver flecks throughout.

Not dated.

Title: Vaṣīyat'nāmah

Title: وصيّت نامه

10. ff. 138v-159r

Language(s): Persian

Item j.

Ṣūfī treatise on divine love.

Illuminated sar'lawḥ (f. 138v). Rubrication in white ink. Folios sprinkled with fine to course silver flecks throughout.

Not dated

Title: Lamaʿāt

Title: لمعات

Author: ʿIrāqī, Fakhr al-Dīn Ibrāhīm, -1289? فخر الدين إبراهيم بن شهريار عراقي همداني

11. ff. 159v-190r

Language(s): Persian

Item k.

Commentary on the rubāʿīyāt of Nūr al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī.

The author is not identified.

Illuminated sar'lawḥ (f. 159v). Rubrication in white ink. Folios sprinkled with fine to course silver flecks throughout.

Not dated

Author:

12. ff. 191v-201v

Language(s): Persian

Item l.

Collection of the teachings of Shāh Vajīh al-Dīn Gujarātī (d. 998/1589), successor or khalīfah of Shaykh Muḥammad Ghaws̲ Gavāliyārī, that is, Abū Muʾayyid Muḥammad ibn Khāṭir al-Dīn, by an unnamed author.

Illuminated sar'lawḥ (f. 191v). Rubrication in white ink. Folios sprinkled with fine to course silver flecks throughout.

Not dated.

Author:

13. ff. 202v-232v

Language(s): Persian

Item m.

Ṣūfī treatise on the nature of God and spiritual qualities necessary in those undertaking the path of sufism, composed by Khūb Muḥammad Chishtī in 981/1573-4.

Illuminated sar'lawḥ (f. 202v). Rubrication in white ink. Folios 202-206 sprinkled with fine to course silver flecks.

Not dated

Title: Ṣirāṭ al-mustaqīm

Title: صراط المستقیم

Author: Miyān Khūb Muḥammad Chishtī, 1539-1614 خوب محمّد چشتى

14. ff. 233v-252r

Language(s): Persian

Item n.

Treatise on mystical love attributed to Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazālī (d. 517/1123), brother of Abū Ḥamīd al-Ghazālī.

The work is divided into sixty-eight fuṣūl.

Illuminated sar'lawḥ (f. 202v). Rubrication in white ink.

Not dated.

This work is followed by an excerpt from the Marj al-baḥrayn or Marj al-baḥrayn va jāmiʿ al-ṭarīqayn attributed to Shaykh ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq Muḥaddis̲ (d. 1052/1642) on the definition of Ṣūfī groups and their status under fiqh or jurisprudence (ff. 253v-254v); written in a course nastaʿlīq hand by a later owner; not dated.

Title: Savāniḥ

Title: سوانح

Physical Description

Form: codex

Material: paper

Extent: 254 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 207 × 118 mm.

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History

Origin: 1684-02-15-1699 28 Ṣafar 1095 (15 February 1684 - 1699) AH ; 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_f058r (digital images currently unavailable)

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Delhi Persian 1154

Miscellaneous Sufi works, 14 works (a-n)

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