Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Delhi Persian 1012 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Miscellaneous works on Sufism, 5 items (a-e)

Contents

Summary of Contents: Miscellaneous collection of works on Sufism, and the spiritual genealogies of Shaykh Pīr Muḥammad traced through three Sufi traditions. Volume not dated. Scribal nastaʿlīq and shikastah āmīz. Annotations in margins. Stamped foliation. Lacking original binding. Leather binding, damaged, labels. Folios mostly bound; severely cropped, wormholes, later repairs. Condition fragile.
1. ff. 1r-41v

Item a. Catalogued as no. 1251 by Storey, Arabic MSS in IOL, vol. ii (1930).

Arabic treatise, conventionally titled Ādāb al-murīdīn, epitomising Ṣūfī doctrine, by Abū al-Najīb ʿAbd al-Qāhir ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Suhravardī (d. 563/1168).

Not dated at end.

The colophon (f. 41v) concludes with the Persian rubāʿīyāt ascribed to Mullā Mukhtārī.

Persian annotations in margin.

Coarse nastaʿlīq.

Language(s): Arabic and Persian
2. ff. 42v-43r

Item b.

Brief treatise listing in the spiritual genealogy of Qādirī Ṣūfī leaders, the latest being Shaykh Pīr Muḥammad traced back via Imām Mūsá al-Kāẓim to the Khalīfah and Imām ʿAlī ibn Abū Ṭālib and ultimately the Prophet Muḥammad.

The author or authority for the tradition is not named.

Not dated at end.

Coarse shikastah āmīz.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
3. ff. 43v-44r

Item c.

Brief treatise listing in the spiritual genealogy of Chishtī Ṣūfī leaders, the latest being Shaykh Pīr Muḥammad traced back via Ḥasan Baṣrī and Imām ʿAlī ibn Abū Ṭālib and ultimately the Prophet Muḥammad.

The author or authority for the tradition is not named.

Not dated at end.

Coarse shikastah āmīz.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
4. ff. 44v-45r
Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Item d.

Brief treatise listing in the spiritual genealogy of Suhravardī Ṣūfī leaders, the latest being Shaykh Pīr Muḥammad traced back via Ḥasan Baṣrī and Imām ʿAlī ibn Abū Ṭālib and ultimately the Prophet Muḥammad.

The author or authority for the tradition is not named.

5. ff. 45v-47v
Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Item e.

Untitled treatise on the induction or bayʿah of novice men (f. 45v) and women (f. 46v) into the Naqshbandī Ṣūfī order, by an unnamed author.

Not dated at end.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 47 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 214 × 143 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 E207/11_f071r

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