Delhi Persian 1025 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
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Treatise on Sufism and pantheism
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1 copy of a work by ʿAbd al-ʿAlī ibn Niẓām al-Dīn al-Anṣārī
Untitled Persian treatise on Sufism and concepts of pantheism, based on the Arabic original by the same author, ʿAbd al-ʿAlī ibn Niẓām al-Dīn al-Anṣārī (d. 1235/1820).
The work was written at the order of the patron, Amīr Vālājāh Bahādur (added in margin, Muḥammad ʿAlī Khān) ibn Anvār al-Dīn Khān Bahādur (d. 1795), the second Navvāb of Arkāt/Arcot, ruler of the Carnatic.
The work begins with an Arabic preface.
Not dated at end.
Illuminated ʿunvān folio 1v; gilded ruled borders.
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