Delhi Persian 1180 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Item a.

Theosophical treatise on conceptions of tawḥīd or divine unity and its implications for space and time, by an unnamed author.

Not dated at end.

Neat, miniscule scribal nastaʿlīq, with Arabic quotations in naskh. Blurring of text on subsequent folios. Damage by wormholes.

Recto of folio 1 states a partially erased note on custody: Muḥammad Sharīf, Ramaz̤ān RY 25 of Emperor Muḥammad Shāh (1155/November 1742).

Item b.

Untitled collection of the dicta or fiqarāt ascribed to the Ṣūfī saint, Khvājah ʿUbayd Allāh Aḥrār (d. circa 895/1490).

Dated colophon (f. 51v): completed after ẓuhr, 28 Z̲ī Ḥijjah (year left blank, 1118?/2 April 1707), in the city of Gavālyār (Gwalior).

Miniscule scribal nastaʿlīq, with Arabic quotations in red ink. Blurring of text on subsequent folios. Damage by wormholes.

Annotations in margins.

Item c.

Brief notes translating traditions of the Prophet Muḥammad.

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Scribal nastaʿlīq.

Item d.

Treatise in defence of the Ṣūfī practice of samāʿ or audition (in z̲ikr) based on several Naqshbandī authorities in prose and verse, by Aḥmad ibn Jalāl al-Dīn Kāshānī Khiljī (d. 949/1542), whose practices had been characterised by the ʿulamāʾ as contrary to the Sunnah.

Dated colophon (f. 64v): completed by Valī Muḥammad on Monday, 14 Muḥarram 1119/17 April 1707.

Marginal annotations.

Miniscule scribal nastaʿlīq. Blurring of text on subsequent folios.

Damage by wormholes.

Item e.

Untitled note on faqr or poverty by an unnamed author.

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Miniscule scribal nastaʿlīq. Blurring of text. Damage by wormholes.

Item f.

Commentary on a ḥadīs̲ or tradition regarding two states of reality by an author whose identity remains unclear.

Dated colophon (f. 75r): completed 22 Muḥarram 1119/25 April 1707.

Miniscule scribal nastaʿlīq, Arabic quotations overlined in red. Blurring of text on subsequent folios. Damage by wormholes.

Item g.

Untitled Ṣūfī treatise on man’s relationship with God and creation by an unnamed author.

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Miniscule scribal nastaʿlīq, coarsening after folio 79 probably by a different hand. Blurring of text on subsequent folios. Damage by wormholes.

Item h.

Untitled Ṣūfī commentary on a formula relating to creation based on early authorities, by an unnamed author.

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Item i.

Ṣūfī commentary on a verse from the Qurʾān (2:33), supplemented with traditions of the Prophet Muḥammad, by an unnamed author.

The present title appears in an endorsement at the beginning and the concluding subscription.

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Item j.

Untitled treatise on the conformity of Ṣūfī principles with the Sunnah by an unnamed author.

Colophon (f. 120v): completed by ʿAbd al-Ghanī Mawdūdī al-Ḥasanī (?) al-Ḥusaynī (?).

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Item k.

Ṣūfī treatise commenting on the Islamic creed as recorded in the prayer Āmantu bi-Allāh, by an unnamed author.

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Item l.

Brief untitled Ṣūfī account of traditions relating to Shaykh ʿĪsá Sindhī by an unnamed author.

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Item m.

Untitled speculative disquisition positing an alternative account on the origins of the universe, the prophets, first four caliphs, and saints, ending with a supplementary notice on Abū Ḥanīfah, by an unnamed author.

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Item n.

Untitled note instructing on the recitation of particular prayers ascribed to Aḥmad Sāvajī, pupil of Mawlānā Aḥmad Ardabīlī.

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Fine nastaʿlīq and naskh in the style of Aḥmad Nayrīzī (d. 1722).

Item o.

Untitled Arabic prayer in praise of the Prophet Muḥammad and all twelve of the Is̲nāʾ ʿAsharī Imams.

Copied in calligraphic naskh in the style of Aḥmad Nayrīzī (d. 1722).

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Annotations in margins.

Item p.

Untitled commentary on selected verses from the Mas̲navī-yi maʿnavī of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, with substantial quotations, by an unnamed author.

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Fine nastaʿlīq and naskh in the style of Aḥmad Nayrīzī (d. 1722). Verses arranged into four columns.

Item q.

Guidance for novices of Sufism, with particular reference to the Naqshbandī ṭarīqah, by the famous saint Nūr al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (d. 898/1492).

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Calligraphic nastaʿlīq-i khafī.