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Delhi Persian 972 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Essay on suffering

Contents

Essay interpreting the compensatory value of suffering through mystical principles, with multiple quotations from the works of known Ṣūfī authorities.

The work is not given a title, except from an endorsement on a later binding naming it as Tasallīyat al-maṣāʾib. The author similarly remains unidentified.

The volume is defective at the beginning.

Dated colophon (f. 22v): completed by Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad on 11 Muḥarram in regnal year 1 of Emperor Farrukh Siyar (=1125)/7 February 1713.

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 22 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 216 × 124 mm.
Dimensions (written):

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History

Origin: 11 Muḥarram RY 1 of Emperor Farrukh Siyar, 1125 AH; 7 February 1713 CE ; India

Record Sources

Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3. Available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts, manuscript number: MSS Eur E207/11_f029r

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