Delhi Persian 962 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Three Sufi works
Contents
Item a.
Sufi treatise by an unnamed author consisting of general points of guidence for novices in florid and poetic prose.
Transcribed in nastaʿlīq tending to shikastah āmīz.
Not dated.
Item b.
Brief treatise expounding the Sufi doctrines of generosity and brotherhood, with many quotes from early masters, followed in the latter half by the author's remarks addressed to his friends beginning ‘ay ʿazīz’. See BL MS Or 2063 for a work of similar content.
Not dated.
Item c.
Fragment from a Sufi treatise by an unnamed author consisting of general points of guidence for novices in florid and poetic prose. See item a.
Not dated.
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