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Delhi Persian 1185

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Delhi Persian 1185

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Miscellaneous works on Naqshbandi Sufism, 11 works (a-k)

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346 ff.

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Arabic
Persian

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Arabic

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1626

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1627

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1626-1627

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Hijri-qamari

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Delhi Persian 1185

Miscellaneous works on Naqshbandi Sufism, 11 works (a-k)

Summary of Contents: Rare collection of miscellaneous works on Naqshbandī Sufism. Volume not dated, but individual items (b, d, and k) are dated separately, ranging from 29 Z̲ī al-Ḥijjah 1035-16 Jumādá II 1036/21 September 1626-4 March 1627. Two separate summaries of contents appended at beginning. Scribal nastaʿlīq hands throughout. Annotations confirming the collation and correctness of many items. Annotations and corrections in margins throughout. Folios subsequently cut, remounted and rebound in IOL red half leather binding, stamp dated 11 Dec 1935; folios damaged heavily by wormholes; net overlay throughout; water stains. Seal impressions and ownership inscriptions effaced.

1. ff. 1v-40r

Item a.

Sayings of the Central Asian saint, Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad Bukhārī, known as the Naqshband (d. 791/1388).

Not dated at end.

Notes of ownership and seal impressions effaced on both sides of folio 1.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Title: Anīs al-ṭālibīn vaʿdat al-sālikīn

Title: انيس الطّالبين وعدة السّالكين

2. ff. 41v-123r

Author: Aḥrār, ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Maḥmūd, 1403 or 1404-1489 or 1490 خواجه احرار

Item b.

Untitled collection of the dicta or fiqarāt ascribed to the Ṣūfī saint, Khvājah ʿUbayd Allāh Aḥrār (d. circa 895/1490).

Dated colophon (f. 123r): completed by Shaykh Jiyā Qurayshī at Agra, salkh (29) Z̲ī al-Ḥijjah 1035/21 September 1626.

Collation note at end.

Language(s): Arabic and Persian

3. ff. 124v-164r

Item c.

Treatise collecting the teachings and thoughts of the saint and founder of the Naqshbandī Ṣūfī order, Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad Bukhārī the Naqshband (d. 791/1388), compiled by Muḥammad Pārsā (d. 822/1420).

Not dated at end.

Collation note at beginning.

Seal impression and notes effaced at beginning.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Author: Khvājah Muḥammad Pārsā, 1338 or 1339-1420 خواجه محمد پارسا

Title: Qudsīyah

Title: قدسيّه

4. ff. 165v-188v

Language(s): Persian

Item d.

Treatise collecting the teachings and thoughts of the saint and founder of the Naqshbandī Ṣūfī order, Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad Bukhārī the Naqshband (d. 791/1388), compiled by his disciple, the theologian and author of a tafsīr of the Qurʾān, Yaʿqūb ibn ʿUs̲mān ibn Maḥmūd Ghaznavī Charkhī (d. 838/1434-5).

Dated colophon (f. 188v): completed Monday, 7 Jumādá I 1036/24 January 1627.

Collation note at beginning.

Title: Risālah-'i unsīyah

Title: رسالهٴ انسيّه

Author: Charkhī, Yaʿqūb, -1447 يعقوب چرخى

5. ff. 189r-193r

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Item e.

Brief treatise on conduct in the course of the greater and lesser pilgrimages to Makkah, ḥajj and ʿumrah, respectively, by an unnamed author.

Not dated at end.

Title: Risālat fī ādāb al-ḥajj va al-ʿumrah

Title: رسالة فى آداب الحجّ و العمره

6. ff. 194v-202v

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Item f.

Rare treatise on the tenets of the Naqshbandi school of Sufism by Khvājah Aḥrār (d. circa 895/1490), conventionally thought to be lost, and later translated into Chaghatay Turkic by the Timurid or Mughal ruler, Emperor Ẓahīr al-Dīn Muḥammad Bābur (d. 1530).

Not dated at end.

Seal impression and notes effaced at beginning.

Title: Risālat vālidīyah

Title: رسالة والديّه

Author: Aḥrār, ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Maḥmūd, 1403 or 1404-1489 or 1490 خواجه احرار

7. ff. 203v-211v

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Item g.

Rare treatise on early Ṣūfī saints and their associated miracles, largely based on information supplied by or at least attributed to the saint and founder of the Naqshbandī Ṣūfī order, Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad Bukhārī the Naqshband (d. 791/1388), compiled by his disciple, the theologian and author of a tafsīr of the Qurʾān, Yaʿqūb ibn ʿUs̲mān ibn Maḥmūd Ghaznavī Charkhī (d. 838/1434-5).

Not dated at end.

Title: Risālah-'i ṣifat-i awliyāʾ Allāh

Title: رسالهٴ صفت اولياء الله

Author: Charkhī, Yaʿqūb, -1447 يعقوب چرخى

8. ff. 212v-216v

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Item h.

Untitled Ṣūfī treatise on mystical perfection and communion with the divine, by an unnamed author, though the work is occasionally attributed to Jāmī.

Not dated at end.

9. ff. 217v-250v

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Item i.

Ṣūfī treatise arguing the Prophet Muḥammad embodies the concept of insān-i kāmil or the perfect man.

The work does not name the author, but describes him as a disciple of Yaʿqūb, that is, Yaʿqūb ibn ʿUs̲mān ibn Maḥmūd Ghaznavī Charkhī (d. 838/1434-5), himself the disciple of Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad Bukhārī the Naqshband (d. 791/1388).

According to a note on folio 217a, the author is identified as Mullā Muḥammad Amīn Gurgī or Kurgī, who otherwise remains unknown.

Not dated at end.

Collation note at beginning.

Title: Ḥaqīqat-i Muḥammadīyah

Title: حقيقت محمّديّه

10. ff. 251v-252v

Item j.

Brief treatise commenting on the Ṣūfī mnemotechnical phrase, ‘hūsh dar dam va khilvat dar anjuman’, with the aid of quotations from the Qurʾān and Ḥadīs̲, by an unnamed author.

Not dated at end.

Seal impression effaced at beginning.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Title: Risālah-'i hūsh dar dam

Title: رسالهٴ هوش در دم

11. ff. 253v-346v

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Item k.

Untitled hagiography on the dicta and life of the Naqshbandī saint, Khvājah ʿUbayd Allāh Aḥrār (d. circa 895/1490) by an unnamed, but intimate junior associate.

Occasionally dense annotations in margins.

Dated colophon (f. 346v): completed on the morning of Friday, 16 Jumādá II 1036/4 March 1627.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Material: paper

Extent: 346 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 216 × 127 mm.

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History

Origin: 1626-09-21-1627-03-04 29 Z̲ī al-Ḥijjah 1035-16 Jumādá II 1036 (21 September 1626 - 4 March 1627) 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 E207/3_f006r (digital images currently unavailable)

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MSS Eur E207/3_f006r (digital images currently unavailable)

Delhi Persian 1185

Miscellaneous works on Naqshbandi Sufism, 11 works (a-k)

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