Delhi Persian 1166 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Miscellaneous works on Sufism, 9 works (a-i)
Contents
Item a.
Collection of Arabic homilies for Sunni Friday prayers and selections of Qur’an sūrahs by an unknown compiler.
Defective at beginning and end.
Not dated at end.
Neat Indian naskh, with Persian comments in rough shikastah in red ink transcribed around main text.
Item b.
Ṣūfī treatise on the existence of God based on the properties of light by an unnamed author.
Not dated at end.
Item c.
Untitled extract from an Arabic treatise ascribed to Ibn al-ʿArabī (d. 638/1240).
Not dated at end.
Item d.
Extracts of a qiṭʿah poem from an Arabic treatise entitled ʿAqlat al-mustawfī ascribed to Ibn al-ʿArabī (d. 638/1240).
Not dated at end.
Further verses and annotations added in alternating bold and miniscule nastaʿlīq at end.
Item e. Previously incorrectly labelled as item f by Levy.
Treatise on z̲ikr or the recollection of God through Arabic prayers and invocations, by an unnamed author.
Not dated at end.
Arabic passages overlined.
Item f.
Ṣūfī treatise ascribed to Khvājah Muʿīn al-Dīn Chishtī Sijzī (d. 633/1236).
Not dated at end.
Item g.
Excerpt of verses from an unidentified treatise ascribed to ʿAyn al-Quz̤āt Hamadānī, that is, Abū al-Maʿālī ʿAyn al-Quz̤āt ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī Miyānagī Hamadānī, who was hung in 525/1131.
The text ends abruptly, leaving the ultimate couplet incomplete.
Not dated at end.
Item h.
Account of the miracles ascribed to the Naqshbandī saint, Khvājah Naṣīr al-Dīn ʿUbayd Allāh Aḥrār (d. 895/1490), by an unnamed author.
The work contains many historically and socially noteworthy details.
Not dated at end.
Early naskh-nastaʿlīq hands in the late-fifteenth-century style alternating with a more developed nastaʿlīq hand (ff. 70v-74v, 76r-83r).
Annotations in margins cropped.
Item i.
Extract from the Persian commentary on the Arabic Ṣūfī treatise, Risālat al-tasvīyat bayna al-ifādat va al-qubūl, treating the unity of God, by the Indian Ṣūfī saint, Shaykh Muḥibb Allāh Ilāhābādī (d. 1058/1648).
The present copy places the introduction at the end (f. 108v).
Colophon at end not dated (f. 118r): completed by Muḥammad Iḥsān. Datable to the late seventeenth century.
Annotations and corrections in margins cropped in parts.
Fluent nastaʿlīq hand with Arabic passages in scribal naskh.
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