Delhi Persian 119 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Miscellaneous works on Sufism and prayers, 88 items (a-cj)
Contents
Language(s): Persian and Arabic
Delhi Persian 119 a.
Untitled Arabic prayer followed by notes in Persian explaining its prescription by Imām Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq for curing fever or tap.
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This is followed by a note on hastening the betrothal of daughters.
Delhi Persian 119 b.
Persian notes introducing an untitled prayer partially in Persian and Arabic attributed to Shaykh Sayyid ʿAbd al-Qādir Gīlānī (d. 561/1166).
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Delhi Persian 119 c.
Persian notes introducing an untitled prayer partially in Persian and Arabic attributed to a Muḥyī al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad [ibn] Ṣāliḥ Jīlānī, a reference to Shaykh Sayyid ʿAbd al-Qādir Gīlānī (d. 561/1166).
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Delhi Persian 119 d.
Persian notes introducing a short untitled Arabic prayer for ʿĪd al-Fiṭr.
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Delhi Persian 119 e.
Persian notes introducing a short untitled talismanic Arabic prayer against illness.
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This is followed by further notes.
Delhi Persian 119 f.
Persian notes introducing an untitled Arabic prayer revealed in a dream to an unnamed Qāz̤ī from Baghdad.
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Delhi Persian 119 g.
Persian notes introducing an untitled Arabic prayer for good fortune.
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Delhi Persian 119 h.
Persian notes introducing the virtues of a brief untitled Arabic prayer revealed to the Prophet Muḥammad.
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Papers covered with densely flecked silver (ff. 12v-13r, 14v).
Traces of dense Devanagari text transmitted in reverse (ff. 13v-14r).
Delhi Persian 119 i.
Untitled Arabic prayer.
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Delhi Persian 119 j.
Untitled Arabic prayer.
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Delhi Persian 119 k.
Untitled Arabic prayer.
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Delhi Persian 119 l.
Untitled Arabic prayer.
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Delhi Persian 119 m.
Untitled Arabic prayer.
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Paper covered with densely flecked silver (f. 21r).
Delhi Persian 119 n.
Persian notes introducing the virtues of a brief untitled Arabic prayer for the needy favoured by the Sufi Shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn [Suhravardī].
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Papers covered with densely flecked silver (ff. 21r, 22v). Traces of dense Devanagari text transmitted in reverse (f. 22v).
Delhi Persian 119 o.
Untitled Arabic prayer.
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Papers covered with densely flecked silver (ff. 22v-23r). Traces of dense Devanagari text transmitted in reverse (ff. 22v-23r).
Delhi Persian 119 p.
Untitled Persian note on a tradition or ḥadīs̲ of the Prophet Muḥammad.
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Delhi Persian 119 q.
Lengthy untitled Arabic prayer.
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Delhi Persian 119 r.
Persian notes introducing the virtues of a brief untitled Arabic prayer for forgiveness.
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Delhi Persian 119 s.
Persian notes discussing the virtues of the Arabic basmalah invocation from the Qurʾān mentioned in the Khulāṣat al-akhbār, probably a reference to the compendious history by Ghiyās̲ al-Dīn Khvāndamīr ibn Humām al-Dīn (d. 942/1535).
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Delhi Persian 119 t.
Lengthy untitled Arabic prayer.
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Bold naskh hand.
Delhi Persian 119 u.
Lengthy Arabic prayer.
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Awkward naskh hand combined with nastaʿlīq.
This followed by two short Persian notes on the curing of pain and a talismanic formula restoring fecundity to a miscarrying woman.
Delhi Persian 119 v.
Lengthy untitled Arabic eulogy or durūd to the Prophet Muḥammad.
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Naskh.
This followed by a short Persian note on an additional prayer.
Delhi Persian 119 w.
Untitled genealogy or nasab'nāmah of Sayyid ʿAbd al-Qādir Jīlānī.
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Nastaʿlīq.
Delhi Persian 119 x.
Incomplete fragment of the untitled Arabic spiritual genealogy of the Chishtīyah Sufi Order.
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Delhi Persian 119 y.
Arabic tradition or ḥadīs̲ of the Prophet Muḥammad.
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Delhi Persian 119 z.
Untitled eulogy or durūd to the Prophet Muḥammad.
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Delhi Persian 119 aa.
Untitled Arabic prayer introduced with a brief note in Persian.
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Neat naskh and nastaʿlīq.
Delhi Persian 119 ab.
Lengthy untitled Arabic eulogy or durūd to the Prophet Muḥammad.
Not dated at end.
Neat naskh.
Floral motif in grey pigment sparsely stamped over the text (ff. 71v-72r).
Delhi Persian 119 ac.
Untitled Arabic eulogy or durūd to the Prophet Muḥammad.
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Naskh.
Papers covered with sparsely flecked silver (ff. 73v-74r, 75v-76r).
Delhi Persian 119 ad.
Untitled eulogy or manqabat to Sayyid ʿAbd al-Qādir Jīlānī.
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Rough naskh declining into nastaʿlīq.
Papers covered with sparsely flecked silver (ff. 77v-78v, 79v-80r).
Floral motif in grey pigment sparsely stamped over text (f. 81v).
Delhi Persian 119 ae.
Lengthy Arabic prayer for Friday.
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Minute naskh.
Delhi Persian 119 af.
Lengthy Arabic prayer for Saturday.
The Persian word ‘shanbah’ has been added above the text.
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Minute naskh.
Delhi Persian 119 ag.
Lengthy untitled Arabic prayer for Sunday.
The Persian word ‘yak shanbah’ has been added above the text.
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Minute naskh.
Delhi Persian 119 ah.
Lengthy Arabic prayer for Monday.
The Persian word ‘dū shanbah’ has been added above the text.
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Minute naskh.
Delhi Persian 119 ai.
Lengthy Arabic prayer for Tuesday.
The Persian word ‘sih shanbah’ has been added above the text.
Not dated at end.
Minute naskh.
Delhi Persian 119 aj.
Lengthy Arabic prayer for Wednesday.
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Minute naskh.
Delhi Persian 119 ak.
Lengthy Arabic prayer for Thursday.
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Minute naskh.
Delhi Persian 119 al.
Untitled Arabic prayer.
Partially dated colophon (f. 136v): completed on Friday the day of burāʾat (‘shab-i burāʾat’), 14 Shaʿbān (year not stated).
Minute naskh and shikastah.
Delhi Persian 119 am.
Notes giving special instructions for prayers on the eves of Friday and other select days of the week.
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Delhi Persian 119 an.
Arabic eulogy or durūd to the Prophet Muḥammad.
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Awkward naskh.
Delhi Persian 119 ao.
Persian note on the deferral of ritual prayers.
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Delhi Persian 119 ap.
Untitled Arabic prayer.
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Naskh.
Delhi Persian 119 aq.
Persian note on the expression of intent or nīyat before commencing ritual or elective prayers.
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Delhi Persian 119 ar.
Miscellaneous noted on prayer formulae and litanies.
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Delhi Persian 119 as.
Private utterance or munājāt attributed to the Prophet Muḥammad preventing poverty.
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Delhi Persian 119 at.
Notes on the benefits of reciting particular sūrahs of the Qurʾān, followed by a vifq al-aʿdād or numerological magic square used as a talisman or taʿvīz̲, finally concluding with a slightly modified version of the Nādi ʿAlī prayer.
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Delhi Persian 119 au.
Untitled Persian notes on a tradition related by Shaykh Abū Ilyās of a quatrain or rubāʿī recommended for recitation.
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Shikastah āmīz.
Delhi Persian 119 av.
Persian eulogy or durūd appealing for the aid of the Prophet Muḥammad, written in an irregular qiṭʿah form.
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Delhi Persian 119 aw.
Arabic eulogy or durūd to the Prophet Muḥammad.
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Delhi Persian 119 ax.
Untitled Arabic spiritual genealogy of the Qādirīyah as late as the period of a certain Shaykh Bābā Muḥammad Ṭāhir.
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Delhi Persian 119 ay.
The ninety-nine names of the Prophet Muḥammad (in naskh) with extensive Persian notes on authorities for the tradition transcribed in minute shikastah āmīz in the margins.
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Delhi Persian 119 az.
Persian notes introducing the virtues of a brief untitled Arabic prayer against destitution.
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Delhi Persian 119 ba.
Untitled Persian eulogy or durūd praising and supplicating to the Prophet Muḥammad and earlier prophets, the caliphs, companions, Prophet Muḥammad’s wives, Sunnī scholars, and Sufi saints.
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Delhi Persian 119 bb.
Brief notes on Arabic prayer formulae recommended by Sayyid ʿAbd al-Qādir Jīlānī.
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Delhi Persian 119 bc.
Untitled quotation of sūrat Muzammil from the Qurʾān (lxxiii).
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Delhi Persian 119 bd.
Brief untitled Arabic prayer for curing headaches.
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Careful naskh.
Delhi Persian 119 be.
Fragment of an untitled Persian prayer.
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Naskh.
Delhi Persian 119 bf.
Brief untitled Arabic prayer preceded by notes in Persian.
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Naskh and shikastah āmīz.
Delhi Persian 119 bg.
Brief untitled Arabic prayer preceded by notes in Persian.
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Naskh and shikastah āmīz.
Delhi Persian 119 bh.
Lengthy untitled Arabic prayer preceded by notes in Persian.
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Naskh and shikastah āmīz.
Delhi Persian 119 bi.
Persian notes explaining a brief Arabic prayer.
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Naskh and shikastah āmīz.
Delhi Persian 119 bj.
Untitled Persian mas̲navī in praise of the Prophet Muḥammad, written irregularly in two columns in varied orientations.
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Rough shikastah āmīz.
Delhi Persian 119 bk.
Untitled Persian notes on prophetic traditions relating to prayers read after ritual prayers.
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Rough shikastah āmīz.
Delhi Persian 119 bl.
Untitled Persian spiritual genealogy of the Chishtīyah as late as the period of Shāh Hidāyat Allāh, known as the Bāb Allāh.
Distinctive naskh with elements from the bihārī script.
Undated colophon (f. 212r): completed by Shaykh ʿAbd al-Ṣamad Ṣiddīqī.
Delhi Persian 119 bm.
Untitled Arabic prayer.
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Naskh.
Annotations in watery ink.
Delhi Persian 119 bn.
Untitled Arabic prayer.
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Naskh.
Delhi Persian 119 bo.
Untitled quotation of the Āyat al-Kursī or the Throne Verse from the Qurʾān (ii: 255).
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Naskh.
Delhi Persian 119 bp.
Untitled notes in Persian instructing on invocations to God in Arabic.
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Naskh.
Delhi Persian 119 bq.
Untitled Arabic prayer.
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Naskh.
Annotations in margins.
Delhi Persian 119 br.
Untitled quotation of sūrat Yā Sīn from the Qurʾān (xxxvi).
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Naskh.
Delhi Persian 119 bs.
Untitled quotation of sūrat Fatḥ from the Qurʾān (xlviii).
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Naskh.
Delhi Persian 119 bt.
Untitled quotation of sūrat Vāqiʿah from the Qurʾān (lvi).
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Naskh.
Annotations in margins.
Delhi Persian 119 bu.
Untitled quotation of sūrat Mulk from the Qurʾān (lxvii).
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Naskh.
Annotations in margins.
Delhi Persian 119 bv.
Untitled Arabic prayer.
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Naskh.
Annotations in margins.
Delhi Persian 119 bw.
Untitled quotation of sūrat Fātiḥah from the Qurʾān (i) followed by a lengthy Arabic prayer.
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Naskh.
Delhi Persian 119 bx.
Untitled quotation of sūrat Nabāʾ from the Qurʾān (lxxviii) followed by a brief Arabic prayer.
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Naskh.
Delhi Persian 119 by.
Brief untitled Arabic prayer preceded by notes in Persian on the recommendation of Sayyid ʿAbd al-Qādir Jīlānī.
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Rough shikastah āmīz with naskh for Arabic passages.
Delhi Persian 119 bz.
Untitled Arabic prayer preceded by notes in Persian relating its revelation as a divine gift to the Prophet Muḥammad through the angel Jibrāʾīl.
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Rough shikastah āmīz with naskh for Arabic passages.
Urdu verses added in margins.
Delhi Persian 119 ca.
Brief untitled Arabic prayer preceded by notes in Persian.
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Rough shikastah āmīz with naskh for Arabic passages.
Delhi Persian 119 cb.
Brief untitled Arabic prayer preceded by notes in Persian.
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Rough shikastah āmīz with naskh for Arabic passages.
Delhi Persian 119 cc.
Brief untitled Arabic prayer preceded by notes in Persian on its recommendation attributed to the Sufi Ḥasan Baṣrī.
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Rough shikastah āmīz with naskh for Arabic passages.
Delhi Persian 119 cd.
Arabic supplicatory utterances ascribed in preceding Persian notes to the Sufi Vays (Uvays) Qaranī (d. 37/657).
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Rough shikastah āmīz with naskh for Arabic passages.
Delhi Persian 119 ce.
Lengthy Arabic prayer preceded by notes in Persian.
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Rough shikastah āmīz with naskh for Arabic passages.
Delhi Persian 119 cf.
Untitled Arabic eulogy or durūd in praise of the Prophet Muḥammad, comprising the latter portion of Durūd Akbar.
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Rough shikastah āmīz and naskh.
Delhi Persian 119 cg.
Brief Persian ghazal by an unknown author.
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Delhi Persian 119 ch.
Brief humorous anecdote.
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Rough shikastah āmīz.
Delhi Persian 119 ci.
Brief Arabic prayer preceded by notes in Persian.
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Rough shikastah āmīz and naskh.
Delhi Persian 119 cj.
Notes on the benefits of a vifq al-aʿdād or numerological magic square used as a talisman or taʿvīz̲.
Not dated at end.
Rough shikastah āmīz.
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Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859; administrative deposit India Office Library, 1876
1876
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