Delhi Persian 1036 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
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Silk al-suluk by Nakhshabi
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1 copy of Silk al-sulūk by Z̤iyāʾ al-Dīn Nakhshabī
Treatise epitomising Sufism, its technical terms and principles, in refine prose and verse by Z̤iyāʾ al-Dīn Nakhshabī (d. 751/1350), author of the famous collection of tales, Ṭūṭī'nāmah.
The work comprises a hundred and fifty-one aphorisms, each termed silk.
Dated colophon (f. 118v): completed by Muḥammad Riz̤āʾ ibn Muḥammad Anbiyāʾ, descendent of Shaykh ʿAbd A[llāh] Abdāl (?) and Shaykh Sulaymān Ghaws̲ Ṣiddīqī, resident of Chanderi, Friday, 15 Jumādá II in RY 29 of Emperor Awrangzīb (ʿĀlamgīr I), 1096/19 May 1685.
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