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Delhi Persian 1108
- Record Id:
- 032-004580222
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- 032-004580222
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- ark:/81055/vdc_100193852930.0x00001d
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- Format:
- TEI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Delhi Persian 1108
- Title:
- Maslak al-ʻārifīn by ʿAbd al-Khāliq Ghujdavānī
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- ff.ii+ii+135+i+ii
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Persian
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1549
- End Date:
- 1549
- Date Range:
- 1549
- Calendar:
- Gregorian
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Bābā Afz̤al, fl 13th century,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000358643888,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/211269318
Luṭfī
Muḥammad ibn As‘ad al-Bukhārī
Qāsim ibn Muḥammad Shahrṣafāhī
Sheida Heydarishovir
ʿAbd al-Khāliq Ghujdavānī - Subjects:
- Naqshabandīyah
Sufism - TEI:
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India Office Library
Delhi Persian 1108
Maslak al-ʻārifīn by ʿAbd al-Khāliq Ghujdavānī
Contents
Summary of Contents: A detailed account of Sufism by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Asʻad al-Bukhāri, based on the teachings of the Naqshbandi saint ʻAbd al-Khāliq Ghujdavānī (d.575/1179). The work is divided into 21 sections (bāb).Title: Maslak al-ʻārifīnTitle: مسلک العارفینIncipit: (f. 4r): سپاس و ستایش مران خدای را که ظاهر مومنان را به آداب خدمت خود بیاراست و باطن نیازمندان را به اسباب معرفت خود مشرف و مزین گردانید.Explicit: و فردای قیامت از شفاعت محبان خود ما را و جمله مومنان را بی نصیب مگردان یا اله العامین و یا خیر الناصرین و صلی الله علی خیر خلقه محمد و آله اجمعین الطیبین الطاهرین الخ.Colophon: تمام شد کتابت کتاب مسلک العارفین... در ده نوجغانیان در سر مزار ... خواجه علاء الحق و الدین مشتهر به عطار... علی ید ضعیف السخیف خاک رویه این خاندان و این آستان قاسم بن محمد شهرصفاهی در آخر ربیع الاول سنه سته و خمسین و تسعمائه...Colophon: Copied in the village of Nūjghānīyān, at the tomb of Khvājah ʻAlaʼ al-Ḥaqq va al-Dīn known as ʻAṭṭār by Qāsim ibn Muḥammad Shahrṣafāhī and dated the last day of Rabīʻ al-avval year 956 (7 May 1549).ff. 1v-4rFolios 1v-4r contain a list of ʻAbd al-Khāliq's precepts (vaṣāyā).Language(s): PersianPhysical Description
Form: codexMaterial: paperExtent: ff.ii+ii+135+i+iiDimensions (leaf): 246 × 133 mm.Dimensions (written): 155 × 85 mm.Foliation:India Office stamped foliation. Persian foliation.
Collation
Catchwords.
Condition
Slightly worm-eaten and damp-stained. Rebound by India Office, 7 Nov 1951.
Layout
Columns:1
Written lines: 23
23 lines per page.
Hand(s)
Nastaʻlīq; copied in black ink, with headings and overlinings in red. Copied by Qāsim ibn Muḥammad Shahrṣafāhī
Additions:Folio 1r contains various notes on amounts of money paid and transferred, scattered throughout the page; a deliberately erased ownership inscription, several verses and two hadith.
Folio 135r records a birth with a verse and ghazals by a poet Luṭfī. folio 135v has verses added, one by the same Luṭfī.
Folio 135v contains a text about the religious necessity of submitting to authorities.
Seal(s):Binding
Red half-leather India Office binding, dated 7 Nov 1951.
Rectangular damaged illegible black seal dated 1206 (1791/2) (f. 1r).
Rectangular black seal possibly reading "Ṣalli ʻalā Muḥammad"? (f. 1r)
Black Government of India Delhi MSS oval stamp (ff. ir, 1r, 135v, iv).
History
Origin: 1549-05-0729 Rabiʻ al-avval 956 AH (7 May 1549); Iran or India, Nūjghānīyān.Provenance and Acquisition
Possibly belonged to a person with the pen name of Luṭfī.
Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859; administrative deposit India Office Library, 1876.
Acquired by the Government of India in 1876
Record Sources
Based on A.J. Arberry's description in Drafts for Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. III, Mss Eur E207/2, ff. 37-8 (digital images currently unavailable) and R. Levy's description in Drafts for Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. III, Mss Eur E207/13, ff. 50-1 (digital images currently unavailable). Revised by Sheida Heydarishovir
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