Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

IO Islamic 4431 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Biography of Mazhar Jan-i Janan and author's autobiography

Contents

Biography of Mazhar Jan-i Janan followed by the author's autobiography

1. ff. 1-142r

Biography of Mīrzā Shams al-Dīn Ḥabīb Allāh (d. 1195/1781), known as Mīrzā Maẓhar Jān-i Jānān, the poet, mystical saint, and founder of the Shamsīyah Maẓharīyah division of the Naqshbandīyah sufi order, written by his disciple Muḥammad Naʿīm Allāh Bahrāʾichī in 1204/1789-90

Short biographical account of Ḥāfiẓ Sayyid Sirāj al-Dīn Sandīlī on flyleaf

Not dated

Language(s): Persian
2. ff. 142v-146v

Untitled autobiography by the Naqshbandi hagiographer of Mazhar Jan-i Janan, Muḥammad Naʿīm Allāh Bahrāʾichī, who wrote this work at the age of 56, in 1208/1793-4

Ff. 146-149: list of chapters and subheadings, lacking folio references

Not dated

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 149 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 250 × 169 mm.
Dimensions (written):

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 18th century 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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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 E207/9_f236r

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