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Delhi Persian 1164
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- 032-004341547
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- TEI
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- Delhi Persian 1164
- Title:
- Miscellaneous works on Sufism, 9 works (a-i)
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 328 ff.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Arabic
Persian - Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1722
- End Date:
- 1809
- Date Range:
- 1722-1809
- Calendar:
- Hijri-qamari
- Era:
- CE
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- Names:
- Muḥammad Bayg ibn Yār Muḥammad, fl. 1673
Muḥammad Farrukh ibn Shaykh Muḥammad Saʿīd al-Naqshbandī al-Aḥmadī
Muḥammad ibn Badr al-Dīn al-Munshīʾ
Nūr
Simnānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1261-1336,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121224853,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/17351669
Simnānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1261-1336,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121224853,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/17351669 - Subjects:
- Sufi literature, Persian
Sufism--Early works to 1800 - TEI:
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India Office Library
Delhi Persian 1164
Miscellaneous works on Sufism, 9 works (a-i)
Contents
Summary of Contents: Collection of miscellaneous Persian and Arabic works on Sufism, lexicography, and vocabulary, comprised of various tractates assembled from different sources. Volume not dated; individual items range in date between the late seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries. Variable scribal naskh, nastaʿlīq, and shikastah āmīz hands. Only the boards of a later leather binding survive. Stamped foliation. Folios detached and unbound; cropped, wormhole damage, later repairs. Condition fragile.1. ff. 1v-98rItem a.
Ṣūfī treatise emphasising divine unity and agency, which also critiques Muslims with differing opinions, by Muḥammad Farrukh ibn Shaykh Muḥammad Saʿīd al-Naqshbandī al-Aḥmadī.
Not dated at end.
Refer to IOL microfilm 118.
Language(s): Persian and ArabicTitle: Kashf al-ghiṭāʾ ʿan az̲hān al-aghbiyāʾTitle: كشف الغطاء عن اذهان الاغبياء2. ff. 101v-147rTitle: Anīs al-ghurabāʾTitle: انيس الغرباءItem b.
Treatise on Sufism by an author identifying himself as Nūr, but entitled in the superscription as Quṭb-i ʿĀlam.
The work was intended to compliment the treatise Muʾnis al-fuqarāʾ by a student of ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿUmar Lāhawrī, which dates to the early fifteenth century. Arberry has argued this is the basis for fixing the present author’s period of work to the period immediately following the composition of the Muʾnis al-fuqarāʾ.
Dated colophon (f. 147r): completed at noon on Thursday, 6 Muḥarram in RY 39 (? ruler not indicated).
Refer to IOL microfilm 119.
Language(s): Persian and Arabic3. ff. 149v-164rItem c.
Ṣūfī treatise on the fundamental principles of faith in God by an unnamed author.
Among the authorities cited in the work is the famous muḥaddis̲, ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Sayfī al-Dihlavī, indicating the work dates from the seventeenth century or later.
Not dated at end.
Language(s): Persian and ArabicTitle: al-Ḥadd al-fāṣil bayna sadīd al-iʿtiqād va bayna al-zindiqat va al-ilḥādTitle: الحدّ الفاصل بين سديد الاعتقاد و بين الزّندقة و الالحاد4. ff. 165v-195vLanguage(s): Persian and ArabicItem d.
Fragment of a Persian translation from the Arabic Ṣūfī treatise on the principles of Islām by the proponent of Shuhūdī thought, ʿAlāʾ al-Dawlah Abū al-Makārim Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Simnānī (d. 736/1336).
The original version was completed on Tuesday, 13 Muḥarram 721/20 February 1321 at the Masjid of Ṣūfī'ābād, but the present Persian edition was completed 1 Jumādá I 722/26 May 1322, being sponsored by the author’s son, Abū al-Barakāt Taqī al-Dīn ʿAlī Simnānī.
The work consists of six bāb.
The text ends abruptly, without appropriate conclusion.
Not dated at end.
Title: al-ʿUrvat li-al-ahl al-khalvat va al-jalvahTitle: العروة لاهل الخلوة و الجلوة5. ff. 197v-272vLanguage(s): ArabicItem e.
Arabic Ṣūfī treatise on the fundamentals of religious beliefs and practice by Muḥammad Bayg ibn Yār Muḥammad ibn Khvājah Muḥammad, who completed the work in Rajab 1084/October 1673.
Not dated at end.
Multiple naskh hands throughout, with an impressively bold basmalah design at the beginning.
Later annotations in margins.
Title: Fāʾiz̤ al-munībīnTitle: فائض المنيبين6. ff. 275v-316vLanguage(s): ArabicItem f.
Arabic treatise entitled Navādir al-lughah on vocabulary, by an unnamed author.
Not dated at end.
Pale green and orange tinted papers.
Title: Navādir al-lughahTitle: نوادر اللّغة7. ff. 317r-319vLanguage(s): ArabicItem g.
Brief, untitled Arabic lexicographic treatise on antonyms or words capable of baring meanings opposite to their primary definition, by an unnamed author.
Not dated at end.
Transcribed obliquely in shikastah āmīz, with annotations by the same scribe in margins (cropped).
8. ff. 320r-320rLanguage(s): ArabicItem h.
Unidentified Arabic text.
Not dated at end.
9. ff. 320v-328vLanguage(s): ArabicItem i.
Untitled Arabic lexicographic treatise on Persian vocabulary absorbed into courtly Arabic by the author Muḥammad ibn Badr al-Dīn al-Munshīʾ.
Not dated at end.
Physical Description
Form: codexMaterial: paperExtent: 328 ff.Dimensions (leaf): 241 × 165 mm.Dimensions (written):Hand(s)
History
Origin: 1722-1809 18th-19th centuries CE ; 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 E207/4_f020r (digital images currently unavailable)Availability
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MSS Eur E207/4_f020r (digital images currently unavailable)Funding of Cataloguing
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