Delhi Persian 1168 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Miscellaneous works on Sufism, 5 works (a-e)
Contents
Item a.
Arabic treatise al-Risālat al-murshidīyah of Shaykh Ṣadr al-Dīn Qūnavī (d. 672/1273) dealing with Ṣūfī methods of attaining unity with God.
Not dated at end.
Dense annotations at beginning (including selections from the Lavāʾiḥ attributed to Jāmī) and end.
Small, rough naskh hand.
Item b.
Persian translation paraphrasing the Risālat al-murshidīyah of Shaykh Ṣadr al-Dīn Qūnavī (d. 672/1273) dealing with Ṣūfī methods of attaining unity with God, written primarily by ʿAbd al-Ghafūr Lārī (d. 912/1506-7), a famous disciple of the eminent Ṣūfī, Jāmī Hiravī, aided by an unnamed assistant.
The treatise is divided into a muqaddimah followed by four sections termed qawl.
Colophon (f. 21r): completed by Hidāyat Allāh Ḥusaynī for Farīd al-Dīn Khān.
Not dated at end.
The work is followed by numerous and miscellaneous notes by later hands (ff. 21v-23r), mentioning the Mujaddid-i Alf-i S̲ānī.
Item c.
Untitled Persian translation paraphrasing and commenting on an Arabic treatise dealing with Ṣūfī methods of attaining unity with God attributed to Abū al-Janāb Najm al-Dīn Kubrá (d. 618/1221), written by ʿAbd al-Ghafūr Lārī (d. 912/1506-7), a famous disciple of the eminent Ṣūfī, Jāmī Hiravī.
Not dated at end.
Annotations and corrections in margins, as well as the beginning.
Item d.
Brief Naqshbandī Ṣūfī treatise on spiritual perfection and brotherhood by a certain Jalāl Hiravī, written at the request of his spiritual brethren.
The work is divided into two faṣl.
Not dated at end.
Extensive annotations in Arabic and Persian without diacritics at beginning (ff. 40r-41r).
Item e.
Untitled Arabic treatise on the origins of Naqshbandī Sufism by Tāj al-Dīn .
The work is divided into six sections termed ṭarīq.
Not dated at end.
Annotations in Arabic without diacritics at beginning and end, as well as in margins.
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