IO Islamic 4059 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
Irvine Collection
Sarmad, ruba'iyat
Contents
1 copy of Rubāʿīyāt-i Sarmad by Muḥammad Saʿīd Kāshānī "Sarmad"
Collection of rubāʿī or quatrains by the seventeenth-century, Jewish Iranian poet, convert to Islam, and mystic, who, after travelling to Timurid or Mughal South Asia, fell in love with a Brahmin youth and abandoned all clothing, for which he was executed by Emperor ʿĀlamgīr I (d. 1707) in 1071 / 1660-1
Not dated
Physical Description
Hand(s)
Rough nastaʿlīq in watery ink
. Scribe: Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz of Bhitrī
Binding
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz of Bhitrī
1913-08-15
William Irvine
Record Sources
Availability
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