Delhi Persian 1130 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
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1 copy of Maktūbāt-i Aḥmad Fārūqī by Aḥmad Sirhindī, 1563-1624
Maktūbāt-i Aḥmad Fārūqī (مکتوبات احمد فاروقی), the first of three volumes of the letters of the celebrated Naqshbandi saint Shaykh Aḥmad Fārūqī Sirhindī (1563-1624). These, 313 in number, were collected in 1025 (1616/17) by his pupil Yār Muḥammad al-Jadīd al-Badakhshī. They are followed in the khātimah by three letters of Muḥammad Ṣādiq Makhdūm’zādah, who is possibly to be identified as Aḥmad Sirhindī’s grandson.
21 lines per page; nastaʻliq; rubrications; first folio damaged.
India, 18th century
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IOL quarter-leather scarlet
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Provenance and Acquisition
Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859; administrative deposit India Office Library, 1876.
1876
Government of India
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