Delhi Persian 1028 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Miscellaneous works on Sufism, 5 items (a-e)
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Item a.
Ṣūfī treatise on spiritual extinction or fanāʾ through union with God by Muḥammad ibn Abū Saʿīd al-Ḥasanī, but ascribed to Mīr Sayyid Muḥammad-i Kālpī, which is likely to be another form of address for the same author.
Not dated at end.
Crude illuminated ʿunvān and interlineation at beginning (ff. 1v-2r).
Nastaʿlīq, with naskh in the Nayrīzī style for Arabic passages.
Item b.
Untitled treatise assembling miscellaneous Arabic supplications and litanies, with instructions for their use in Persian, by an unnamed compiler.
Not dated at end.
Neat naskh in the Nayrīzī style for Arabic passages.
Loose sheet of verses inserted between folios 60-61.
Item c.
Untitled treatise recording the religious teachings of a certain Sayyid Fatḥ ʿAlī Ḥusaynī Riz̤avī Gardīzī (active circa 1750) by an unnamed author.
Not dated at end.
Item d.
Brief treatise on mystical knowledge by Sayyid Fatḥ ʿAlī Ḥusaynī Riz̤avī Gardīzī (active circa 1750).
Not dated at end.
Item e.
Apologia in defence of the theological stance adopted by the poet and diarist, Shaykh Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn Abū Ṭālib Muḥammad Lāhijī Gīlānī "Ḥazīn" (d. 1180/1766) in his poetry, written by Fatḥ ʿAlī Ḥusaynī Riz̤avī Gardīzī (active circa 1750).
The work may be incomplete at end, as the text breaks off without appropriate conclusion or a colophon.
Not dated at end.
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