Item a.

Commentary on the compendium of Ṣūfī teachings, the Faṣl al-khiṭāb of Muḥammad Pārsā, by the commentator on the Gulshan-i rāz, Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd, known as Dihdār Fānī (d. 1016/1607-8).

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Copied by multiple hands in clear scribal nastaʿlīq, with early replacement leaves in fluent, though not calligraphic, shikastah and nastaʿlīq hands.

Item b.

Commentary on the popular Ṣūfī treatise, Rashaḥāt-i ʿayn-i ḥayāt of ʿAlī ibn Ḥusayn Vāʿiẓ Kāshifī, by the commentator on the Gulshan-i rāz, Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd, known as Dihdār Fānī (d. 1016/1607-8).

The work was written at the behest of the Timurid or Mughal minister and commander of the southern frontier, the Khān Khānān, that is, "Mīrzā Khān" ʿAbd al-Raḥīm Khān ibn Bayrām Khān Turkmān (d. 1627), after the author had earlier completed a commentary on the Nafaḥāt al-uns of Jāmī.

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Copied by multiple hands in clear scribal nastaʿlīq with occasional shikastah flourishes.

Undated note on folio 161r indicates the work has been collated by ʿAbd al-Qādir and Abū al-Fatḥ.

Item c.

Persian translation and commentary on the homily Khuṭbat al-bayān traditionally attributed to the Imām and Khalīfah, ʿAlī ibn Abū Ṭālib (d. 40/661), concluding with an additional qaṣīdah in praise of ʿAlī, by the commentator on the Gulshan-i rāz, Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd, known as Dihdār Fānī (d. 1016/1607-8).

The work ends with a lengthy qaṣīdah in praise of ʿAlī, containing the chronogrammatic phrase ‘fayz̤-i jūd-i ʿAlī’ that records the date of completion, 1013/1604-5.

Passages in Arabic are rendered in red ink.

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Item d.

Theological treatise, alternatively entitled Risālah-'i bihjat-i Niẓām or Risālah-'i Niẓām Shāh, on the certainty of divine existence and the creation of humankind, by the commentator on the Gulshan-i rāz, Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd, known as Dihdār Fānī (d. 1016/1607-8).

The work consists of a muqaddimah, three faṣl, and a khātimah.

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Undated note on folio 287r indicates the work has been collated by Muḥammad Taqī, who may be the author’s son.

Copied by multiple hands in clear scribal nastaʿlīq with occasional shikastah flourishes.

Item e.

Theological treatise attempting the reconciliation of doctrines on the unity of divine existence as propounded by philosophers, theologians, and Ṣūfīs respectively, by the commentator on the Gulshan-i rāz, Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd, known as Dihdār Fānī (d. 1016/1607-8).

The words beginning the work are similar to that of the Nafāʾis al-arqām.

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Undated note on folio 292r indicates the work has been collated by Muḥammad Taqī, who may be the author’s son.

Copied in neat scribal nastaʿlīq with occasional shikastah flourishes.

Item f.

Rare treatise setting out the ten laudable virtues observed by the author, Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd, known as Dihdār Fānī (d. 1016/1607-8), in his patron, the Timurid or Mughal minister and commander of the southern frontier, the Khān Khānān, that is "Mīrzā Khān" ʿAbd al-Raḥīm Khān ibn Bayrām Khān Turkmān (d. 1627).

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Copied in a bold scribal nastaʿlīq hand with occasional shikastah flourishes; naskh rubrics in red ink.

Item g.

Treatise on knowledge of the soul and, through that, knowledge of God, by the commentator on the Gulshan-i rāz, Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd, known as Dihdār Fānī (d. 1016/1607-8), written with the support of his patron, the Timurid or Mughal minister and commander of the southern frontier, the Khān Khānān, that is "Mīrzā Khān" ʿAbd al-Raḥīm Khān ibn Bayrām Khān Turkmān (d. 1627).

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Copied in neat scribal nastaʿlīq with occasional shikastah flourishes.

Item h.

Treatise on the unique necessity of divine existence argued by means of philosophical and mystical theories, in refined prose with the inclusion of copious amounts of verse, by the commentator on the Gulshan-i rāz, Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd, known as Dihdār Fānī (d. 1016/1607-8).

The work opens with a fatḥ and continues with a further seven sections termed raqīqah (singular for raqāʾiq), and concluding with a khatm.

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Item i.

Treatise on the necessity of divine existence argued by means of theological, philosophical and mystical theories, by the commentator on the Gulshan-i rāz, Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd, known as Dihdār Fānī (d. 1016/1607-8).

The work consists of ten sections headed qism.

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Item j.

Ṣūfī treatise on the theory of knowledge and knowledge of the divine, by the commentator on the Gulshan-i rāz, Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd, known as Dihdār Fānī (d. 1016/1607-8).

The work consists of seven sections termed kawkab.

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Note on collation cropped.

Item k.

Rare Ṣūfī treatise on the theory of knowledge, the soul, and incarnation as exemplified by the Messiah, by the commentator on the Gulshan-i rāz, Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd, known as Dihdār Fānī (d. 1016/1607-8).

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Copied by in a fluent shikastah hand; some rubrics in naskh.

Item l.

Rare exegetical treatise commenting on verses from various chapters of the Qurʾān (sūrahs 93, 94, and others) on man’s place in the universe, by the commentator on the Gulshan-i rāz, Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd, known as Dihdār Fānī (d. 1016/1607-8).

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Copied in neat scribal nastaʿlīq with occasional shikastah flourishes.

Gauze overlay in parts.

Item m.

Untitled Ṣūfī treatise on the limitations of human knowledge, relationships, and problems of existence, by the commentator on the Gulshan-i rāz, Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd, known as Dihdār Fānī (d. 1016/1607-8).

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Transcribed in a rough shikastah hand written obliquely.

Gauze overlay in parts.

Item n.

Esoteric Ṣūfī treatise on the sensation of 'taste' for God in the ecstatic experience, by the commentator on the Gulshan-i rāz, Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd, known as Dihdār Fānī (d. 1016/1607-8).

The work is divided into four rukn.

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Transcribed in a rough shikastah hand.

Defective impression of a circular seal (f. 397v): Muḥammad Qā[s]im khādim-i sharʿ sanah 5 … [quotation from Qurʾān in outer band].

Item o.

Rare collection of correspondence (consisting of twenty letters) between the commentator on the Gulshan-i rāz, Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd, known as Dihdār Fānī (d. 1016/1607-8), and his contemporaries, comprised mainly of mystics and his patron, the Timurid or Mughal minister and commander of the southern frontier, the Khān Khānān, that is "Mīrzā Khān" ʿAbd al-Raḥīm Khān ibn Bayrām Khān Turkmān (d. 1627).

The title only occurs in an endorsement on folio 398r.

Most letters commence with the basmalah.

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Summary of letters added on folio 398r; collation note.

Copied by multiple hands in neat to rough scribal nastaʿlīq with occasional shikastah flourishes.

Gauze overlay in parts.

Item p.

Rare treatise comprised of thirty-seven meditations or epistles on Ṣūfī topics, each beginning with the Arabic formula ‘bi-ismuhu subḥanah’, by a certain Mīrzā Muḥammad Taqī Dihdār, who, according to Arberry, is the same as the commentator on the Gulshan-i rāz, Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd, known as Dihdār Fānī (d. 1016/1607-8). According to Levy, however, Muḥammad Taqī is the son of Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd.

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Copied by multiple hands in awkward nastaʿlīq with occasional shikastah flourishes written obliquely after folio 480r.