Delhi Persian 1013 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Qadiri doctrine
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1 copy of Maʿrifat al-nafs by Muḥammad Akram ibn Muḥammad ʿAlī al-Barāsavī
Treatise on Qādirī Ṣūfī doctrine and conceptions of Allāh by the Chishtī biographer and author of the Savāṭiʿ al-anvār, Muḥammad Akram ibn Muḥammad ʿAlī al-Barāsavī, written in honour of the author’s master, a certain Shāh Rawnaq, leader of the Ṣūfī order Ṭarīqah Rawnaqīyah.
Dated colophon (f. 119v): completed 10 Rabīʿ II 1258/21 May 1842.
The volume is marked by orthographic errors.
Bold and awkward nastaʿlīq.
The work contains occasional tabulated figures.
Annotations in margins.
Additional marks in margins indicate the volume has been collated and checked for errors.
Stamped foliation.
Lacking original binding. Binding damaged, boards covered with marbled paper and brown leather edging; marbling rubbed and torn, wormholes.
Folios bound, but detached from covers; cropped, wormholes.
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