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Delhi Persian 650
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- 032-004378058
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- Format:
- TEI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Delhi Persian 650
- Title:
- Miscellaneous works on Sufism, 10 items (a-j)
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 503 ff.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Arabic
Persian - Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1775
- End Date:
- 1792
- Date Range:
- 1775-1792
- Calendar:
- Hijri-qamari
- Era:
- CE
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- Names:
- Bābā Niʿmat Allāh Ṣāḥib Kāmrājī
Jalāl Bābā Kāmrājī
Khvājah Muḥammad Qāsim Ṣāḥib
Muḥammad Akbar
Muḥammad Fāz̤il jīv
Shaykh Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad Zih'gīr ibn Khvājah Muḥammad Ibrāhīm al-Kashmīrī
Shaykh al-Islām Mullā ʿAbd al-Salām
Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghafūr Pishāvarī - Subjects:
- Chishtīyah
Naqshabandīyah
Qādirīyah
Sufi literature, Persian - TEI:
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India Office Library
Delhi Persian 650
Miscellaneous works on Sufism, 10 items (a-j)
Contents
Summary of Contents: Collection of works on Naqshbandī, Chishtī, Qādirī, Kubravī, and Suhravardī Sufism, hagiography, spiritual genealogy, and commemorative poetry. Volume not dated; item c dated (23 Rabīʿ al-Avval 1189/24 May 1775), with later portions dated as late as 7 Rabīʿ al-Avval 1207/23 October 1792. Scribal nastaʿlīq and Indian taʿlīq by the same hand. According to a note at the beginning (lower right, f. 1v) the volume was transcribed by the author. Annotations in margins. Stamped and Persian foliation. Lacking original binding. Binding, red half leather IOL covers, stamp dated 27 Sept 1916. Folios rebound, but disarranged and reoriented; cropped, wormholes, water stains, later repairs; gauze overlay on folios from the beginning and end. Condition fragile. IOL microfilm 1112.Language(s): Persian and Arabic
1. ff. 2v-3vLanguage(s): Arabic and PersianDelhi Persian 650 a.
List of contents for item b.
Not dated at end.
Notes primarily on Naqshbandī Sufi scholars and saints (f. 1).
Title: FihristTitle: فهرست2. ff. 4v-306rDelhi Persian 650 b.
Substantial fragment from a detailed treatise on Naqshbandī Sufi scholars and saints, by Shaykh Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad Zih'gīr ibn Khvājah Muḥammad Ibrāhīm al-Kashmīrī (d. 1205/1790-1), follower of Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghafūr Pishāvarī, and inspired by the Shaykh al-Islām Mullā ʿAbd al-Salām.
Not dated at end.
The transcription alternates between neat scribal nastaʿlīq and a fluent Indian taʿlīq hand.
Language(s): Persian and ArabicAuthor: Shaykh Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad Zih'gīr ibn Khvājah Muḥammad Ibrāhīm al-Kashmīrī شيخ شرف الدّين محمّد زهگير ابن خواجه محمّد براهيم الكشميرىTitle: Rawz̤at al-salāmTitle: روضة السّلام3. ff. 307r-492rDelhi Persian 650 c.
Substantial excerpt from a treatise on Sufism identified at the beginning as Shavāhid al-tajdīd, the authorship of which is not indicated.
Dated colophon crossed out (f. 492r): completed in the house of Muḥammad Fāz̤il jīv, Wednesday, 23 Rabīʿ al-Avval 1189/24 May 1775.
Folio 309 bound inverted.
Diagrams on folios 309, 433, 456, 458, 464.
Language(s): Persian and ArabicTitle: Shavāhid al-tajdīdTitle: شواهد التّجديد4. ff. 492r-495rDelhi Persian 650 d.
Multiple spiritual genealogies of Shaykh Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad Zih'gīr ibn Khvājah Muḥammad Ibrāhīm al-Kashmīrī (d. 1205/1790-1) linked to the Naqshbandī and Qādirī orders.
Not dated at end.
Language(s): Persian and Arabic5. ff. 495r-496rDelhi Persian 650 e.
Certificate of the spiritual genealogy of Shaykh Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad Zih'gīr ibn Khvājah Muḥammad Ibrāhīm al-Kashmīrī (d. 1205/1790-1) linking him to the Kubravīyah Sufi Order, issued 29 Z̲ī Ḥijjah 1176/11 July 1763.
Not dated at end.
Language(s): Persian and ArabicTitle: Ijāzat'nāmahTitle: اجازت نامه6. ff. 496v-498rDelhi Persian 650 f.
Untitled account combining the spiritual genealogies of Shaykh Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad Zih'gīr ibn Khvājah Muḥammad Ibrāhīm al-Kashmīrī (d. 1205/1790-1) from the perspectives of the Suhravardīyah and Naqshbandīyah Sufi Orders, issued in 14 Z̲ī Ḥijjah 1175/6 July 1762 and 1177/1763-4 respectively.
Not dated at end.
Language(s): Persian and Arabic7. ff. 498r-499rDelhi Persian 650 g.
Untitled certification of the spiritual genealogy of Shaykh Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad Zih'gīr ibn Khvājah Muḥammad Ibrāhīm al-Kashmīrī (d. 1205/1790-1) linking him to the Chishtīyah Sufi Order, dated 6 Rajab 1177/10 January 1764.
Not dated at end.
Language(s): Persian and Arabic8. ff. 499r-499vAuthor:Delhi Persian 650 h.
Certificate of the spiritual genealogy of Shaykh Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad Zih'gīr ibn Khvājah Muḥammad Ibrāhīm al-Kashmīrī (d. 1205/1790-1) linking him to the Qādirīyah Sufi Order, dated 1196/1782.
Not dated at end.
Language(s): Persian and ArabicTitle: Ijāzat'nāmahTitle: اجازت نامه9. ff. 499v-500vDelhi Persian 650 i.
Fragment of an untitled essay explaining the multiple spiritual and formal Sufi affiliations of Shaykh Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad Zih'gīr ibn Khvājah Muḥammad Ibrāhīm al-Kashmīrī (d. 1205/1790-1).
There is a lacuna between folios 499-500.
Defective at end.
Not dated at end.
Language(s): Persian and Arabic10. ff. 501r-502rDelhi Persian 650 j.
Miscellaneous collection of verses consisting of chronogrammatic qiṭaʿāt and ghazalīyāt commemorating the ‘ʿurs’ or date of death of Bābā Ṣāḥib Zih'gīr or rather Shaykh Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad Zih'gīr ibn Khvājah Muḥammad Ibrāhīm al-Kashmīrī, yielding the date 1205/1790-1.
This is followed by compositions relating to the commemorations of Khvājah Muḥammad Qāsim Ṣāḥib, Jalāl Bābā Kāmrājī, and Bābā Niʿmat Allāh Ṣāḥib Kāmrājī.
Not dated at end.
On the proceeding folio (503r) is a note by a certain Muḥammad Akbar, dated 7 Rabīʿ al-Avval 1207/23 October 1792.
Language(s): Persian and ArabicPhysical Description
Form: codexMaterial: paperExtent: 503 ff.Dimensions (leaf): 241 × 160 mm.Hand(s)
History
Origin: 1775-05-24-1792-10-23 23_Rabi'-I_1189 (24 May 1775 - 23 October 1792) AH ; 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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