Wadh.Minasian 76 (The Ferdowsi Library, Wadham College, University of Oxford)

Summary of Contents: This is one of the masnavis of Haft Awrang of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jamī. It includes an introduction on monotheism, praise, and the cause of writing, followed by forty 'ʿAqd' (sections) comprised of ethical and mystical topics, narratives, and prayers in 2700 verses, and a conclusion.

Summary of Contents: Tuḥfat al-aḥrār is one of the masnavis of Haft Awrang of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jamī. Its meter, similar to Makhzan al-Asrār of Niẓāmī, is "Muzāḥafāt-i baḥr-i sarīʿ" (Muftaʿilun Muftaʿilun Fāʿilun). It is put in verse in the same style as that book and Maṭlaʿ al-Anvār of Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī, in twenty articles. The topics are mainly ethical, mystical and educative, in the form of many anecdotes and narratives in every article. It has a preface in prose. In this masnavi, Jāmī has praised Khvājah Nāṣir al-Dīn ʿUbayd Allāh Aḥrār Naqshbandī, one of the main figures of the Naqshbandi sect. The number of couplets is recorded to be 1800. It has been composed in 886 AH/1481.