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Delhi Persian 81C
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- 032-004377997
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- Delhi Persian 81C
- Title:
- Miscellaneous works on Shattari Sufism, 5 items (a-e)
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- Oriental Manuscripts
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- India Office Library
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 171 ff. (+6)
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Arabic
Persian - Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 1600-1699
- Era:
- CE
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- Names:
- Abū al-Maʿārif Muḥammad ʿInāyat Allāh al-Qādir al-Shaṭṭārī al-Qaṣūrī al-Lāhawrī
Abū al-Naṣr Sayyid Ilyās
Ghawth al-Hindī, Muḥammad ibn Khaṭīr al-Dīn, d 1563?,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000079857832,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/19540626
Ghawth al-Hindī, Muḥammad ibn Khaṭīr al-Dīn, d 1563?,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000079857832,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/19540626
Quṭb al-ʿĀlam Shāh ʿĪsá Sindī Burhānpūrī
ʿĪsá al-Jundī al-Sindī al-Hindī al-Birārī al-Shaṭṭārī al-Qādirī, known as ʿIshqī and entitled ʿAyn al-ʿUrafāʾ,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000049673434,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/61432412 - Subjects:
- Shat̤t̤ārīyah
Sufi literature, Persian - TEI:
-
India Office Library
Delhi Persian 81C
Miscellaneous works on Shattari Sufism, 5 items (a-e)
Contents
Summary of Contents: Collection of works on Shaṭṭārī and esoteric Sufism, comprised of several heterogeneous fragments from separate sources. Volume not dated; datable to seventeenth century. Neat calligraphic and scribal nastaʿlīq, shikastah āmīz, and Persian naskh for Arabic sections by multiple hands. Annotations and corrections neatly transcribed and ruled in margins. Not foliated. Lacking original binding. Binding damaged (plain reddish brown leather over delaminating pasteboards revealing English text), labelled. Additional manila paper dust wrapper attached. Folios mostly bound, occasionally loose; cropped, wormholes, later repairs. Condition very fragile.Language(s): Persian and Arabic
1. ff. 1v-151vLanguage(s): Persian and ArabicDelhi Persian 81C a.
The third section or jawhar from the extensive treatise, Javāhir-i khamsah, treating esoteric aspects of Sufism and the occult sciences by Shaykh Muḥammad Ghaws̲ Gavālyārī, or Muḥammad ibn Khaṭīr al-Dīn ibn Laṭīf ibn Muʿīn al-Dīn Qattāl ibn Khaṭīr al-Dīn ibn Bāyazīd ibn Khvājah Farīd al-Dīn Nayshāpūrī ʿAṭṭār (d. 970/1562), the latter descends from the Ismāʿīlī imams after Imām Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq.
The author wrote the work at the age of fifty, in 956/1549.
Not dated at end. Dateable to the seventeenth century.
Calligraphic to neat scribal nastaʿlīq, occasionally tending to shikastah āmīz, and Persian naskh for Arabic sections.
Archaic numeral forms.
Interlinear translations added by a modern hand in red ink, for example folios 48v-54r.
Frequent annotations and corrections neatly transcribed in various orientations and occasionally ruled in margins.
Title: Javāhir-i khamsahTitle: جواهر خمسه2. ff. 152v-166rAuthor: Abū al-Maʿārif Muḥammad ʿInāyat Allāh al-Qādir al-Shaṭṭārī al-Qaṣūrī al-Lāhawrī ابو المعارف محمّد عنايت الله القادرى الشّطّارى القصورى اللّاهورىTitle: Kashf al-ḥaqāʾiqTitle: كشف الحقائقDelhi Persian 81C b.
Fragment from a commentary on the extensive treatise, Javāhir-i khamsah, treating esoteric aspects of Sufism and the occult sciences by Shaykh Muḥammad Ghaws̲ Gavālyārī, or Muḥammad ibn Khaṭīr al-Dīn ibn Laṭīf ibn Muʿīn al-Dīn Qattāl ibn Khaṭīr al-Dīn ibn Bāyazīd ibn Khvājah Farīd al-Dīn Nayshāpūrī ʿAṭṭār (d. 970/1562), written by Abū al-Maʿārif Muḥammad ʿInāyat Allāh al-Qādir al-Shaṭṭārī al-Qaṣūrī s̲umma al-Lāhawrī.
The work was written at the suggestion of Abū al-Naṣr Sayyid Ilyās, the successor or khalīfah of the Quṭb al-ʿĀlam Shāh ʿĪsá Sindī Burhānpūrī, possibly the same as Shaykh [Abū al-Barakāt] ʿĪsá Jund Allāh Shaṭṭārī Qādirī (d. 1622).
The work ends without formal conclusion or colophon.
Not dated at end. Dateable to the seventeenth century.
Calligraphic to neat scribal nastaʿlīq, occasionally tending to shikastah āmīz, and Persian naskh for Arabic sections.
Diagrams at end, illustrating the last point on vifq al-aʿdād in triangular or mus̲allas̲ formations.
Language(s): Persian and Arabic3. f. 167vDelhi Persian 81C c.
Annotations on esoteric Sufism regarding specific incantations for days of the week, by an unidentified hand.
Not dated at end.
Language(s): Persian and Arabic4. ff. 168v-170vDelhi Persian 81C d.
Annotations on esoteric Sufism comprised of spells and incantations with subscript numerological calculations by an unidentified hand.
Not dated at end.
Bold nastaʿlīq.
Language(s): Persian and Arabic5. ff. 171r-171vDelhi Persian 81C e.
Annotations on esoteric Sufism comprised of prayers and instructions on their recitation, by an unidentified hand.
Not dated at end.
Rough nastaʿlīq and naskh.
Language(s): Persian and ArabicPhysical Description
Form: codexMaterial: paperExtent: 171 ff. (+6)Dimensions (leaf): 223 × 136 mm.Hand(s)
History
Origin: 1600-1699 17th century CE ; IndiaProvenance and Acquisition
Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859; administrative deposit India Office Library, 1876
1876
Government of India
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