Delhi Persian 1156 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Item a.

Unidentified Ṣūfī treatise by an unnamed author.

The work consists of several fātiḥah with multiple subsections.

Dated colophon (f. 31v): completed by an unnamed devotee of the Ṣūfī saint, Shāh ʿInāyat Allāh Ḥāfiẓ, Tuesday, 7 Ramaz̤ān in RY 40 [Emperor ʿĀlamgīr I] (1107)/31 March 1696.

Dense shikastah āmīz, with rubrics and overlining in red.

Dense annotations and corrections in margins throughout; cropped and damaged by later repairs.

Item b.

Ṣūfī malfūẓ or authorised biography with collected sayings of (?) Shaykh [Abū al-Barakāt] ʿĪsá Jund Allāh Shaṭṭārī Qādirī (d. 1622), the student of Shaykh Burhān al-Dīn [ibn Kabīr Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī Burhānpūrī Gujarātī] al-Ṣiddīqī al-Ḥusaynī al-Shaṭṭārī, called Rāz-ii Ilāhī (d. 1083/1672), by Muḥammad Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad Ṭāhir.

The conclusion to the work is followed by a short statement by the author stating the work was well received by its subject and circulated only after permission or iz̲n was granted.

Dated colophon (f. 51r): completed by an unnamed devotee of the Ṣūfī saint, Shāh ʿInāyat Allāh Qādirī, 4 Z̲ī Qaʿdah 1108/25 May 1697.

Same dense shikastah āmīz hand as item a.

Item c.

Brief selection from the collected correspondence on Ṣūfī themes of ʿAbd al-Jalīl Jawnpūrī, a contemporary of Shaykh Aḥmad Sihrindī, by an unnamed editor.

The collection consists of indications for thirty-nine letters in total.

Dated colophon (f. 57r): completed by an unnamed devotee of the Ṣūfī saint, Shāh ʿInāyat Allāh Qādirī, Tuesday, 11 Z̲ī Qaʿdah 1107/12 June 1696.

Same dense shikastah āmīz hand as item a.

Item d.

Rare account of the Ṣūfī discourses and biography of Burhān al-Dīn ibn Kabīr Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī Burhānpūrī Gujarātī, called Rāz-ii Ilāhī (d. 1083/1672), compiled by his follower, the historian, governor of Akbarābād (Agra), and author of the Naghmāt-i ʿishq, ʿAlī ʿAskarī ibn Muḥammad Taqī ibn Muḥammad Qāsim al-Khvāfī, later entitled ʿĀqil Khān with the takhalluṣ "Rāzī" after his master (d. 1108/1697), and completed in 1053/1643-4 according to the chronogrammatic title.

The work contains important information on the author’s initiation and that of Prince Awrangzīb, later Emperor ʿĀlamgīr I. This is a significantly early copy of the work, datable to within the author’s lifetime.

Dated colophon (f. 85r): completed by an unnamed devotee of the Ṣūfī saint, Shāh ʿInāyat Allāh Ḥāfiẓ, 9 Z̲ī al-Ḥijjah in RY 40 of Emperor ʿĀlamgīr I (1107)/10 July 1696.

Same dense shikastah āmīz hand as item a.