Delhi Persian 1129A (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Miscellaneous works on Sufism, 5 items (a-e)
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Item a.
Treatise in refined prose discussing the relationship between divine light and the prophecy of Muḥammad, by Sharaf al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá al-Munyarī (d. 782/1380).
Not dated at end.
Item b.
Fragment of a treatise in refined prose and poetry on mystical love, by an unnamed author.
Defective at beginning and end.
Not dated at end.
Item c.
Treatise resembling an alternative recension the Dah qāʾidah, articulating ten principles for Sufism, attributable to Najm al-Dīn Kubrá(d. 618/1221).
Not dated at end.
Item d.
Fourth collection of correspondence on Ṣūfī themes, consisting of twenty-eight letters, by Sharaf al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá al-Munyarī(d. 782/1380).
Dated colophon (f. 37v): completed morning of Saturday, 16 Rajab 1[0]82/18 November 1671.
Annotations in margins, cropped.
Item e.
First collection of correspondence on Ṣūfī themes, consisting of a hundred letters, by Sharaf al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá al-Munyarī(d. 782/1380), compiled in the province of Bihārduring 749/1348.
Annotations in margins, cropped.
Dated colophon (f. 310v): completed by the ‘khāk-i pā-yi ʿUbayd’(dust at the feet of ʿUbayd Allāh Aḥrārī), Abu Saʿīd ibn Shaykh Muḥammad Khātim ibn Shaykh ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Shaykh Niẓām al-Dīn ibn Shaykh Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Shāh Tīmūr, known as Dānishmand, in Baygumpūrah, Awrangābād, at noon on Thursday, 2 Rabīʿ al-[Ā]khar in RY 2 of Emperor ʿĀlamgīr [I], 1088/4 June 1677.
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