Delhi Persian 1030A (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Item a.

Naqshbandī treatise on z̲ikr or divine remembrances and other observations by [Sayyid Shāh] Quṭb al-Dīn Muḥammad Ashraf Ḥaydar al-Ḥusayn al-Dihlavī [Khujandī], the khalīfah or successor to the Naqshbandī Ṣūfī, Shaykh Muḥammad Zubayr (d. 1152/1740), in whose honour this work is named.

The work consists of three faṣl.

Arabic quotations and formulae in red ink.

Not dated at end; volume date from after the author’s death, thus post-1740.

Item b.

Untitled metaphysical essay treating man as both microcosm and macrocosm by an unnamed author.

Not dated at end.

Item c.

Qādirī Ṣūfī ijāzat'nāmah or licence in which the spiritual genealogy of the subject, Khvājah Muḥammad Mīr, is traced through his deceased pīr and murshid, Mawlānā Sayyid Shāh Jamāl Allāh via prominent members of the Mujaddidī Naqshbandīyah.

The work begins with a doxology etcetera in Arabic with the rest in Persian, transcribed in naskh throughout.

Not dated at end.

Item d.

Mas̲navī on the Naqshbandī spiritual genealogy of Sayyid Jamāl [i.e. Sayyid Shāh Jamāl Allāh?] by an unnamed poet.

Text crossed out with amendments in margins.

Not dated at end.

Transcribed in rough nastaʿlīq.

Item e.

Collection of two spiritual genealogies in prose:

1) The Chishtī Order, entitled Shajarah-'i silsilah-'i ʿāliyah-'i Chishtīyah, by Shaykh Pīr Muḥammad ibn Shaykh Amān Allāh (ff. 107v-109v). Not dated at end.

2) The Suhravardī Order, entitled Shajarah-'i munavvarah-'i Suhravardīyah, by an unnamed author, and which is defective at end (ff. 109v-111v). Not dated.