Delhi Persian 650 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Miscellaneous works on Sufism, 10 items (a-j)
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Language(s): Persian and Arabic
Delhi Persian 650 a.
List of contents for item b.
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Notes primarily on Naqshbandī Sufi scholars and saints (f. 1).
Delhi Persian 650 b.
Substantial fragment from a detailed treatise on Naqshbandī Sufi scholars and saints, by Shaykh Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad Zih'gīr ibn Khvājah Muḥammad Ibrāhīm al-Kashmīrī (d. 1205/1790-1), follower of Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghafūr Pishāvarī, and inspired by the Shaykh al-Islām Mullā ʿAbd al-Salām.
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The transcription alternates between neat scribal nastaʿlīq and a fluent Indian taʿlīq hand.
Delhi Persian 650 c.
Substantial excerpt from a treatise on Sufism identified at the beginning as Shavāhid al-tajdīd, the authorship of which is not indicated.
Dated colophon crossed out (f. 492r): completed in the house of Muḥammad Fāz̤il jīv, Wednesday, 23 Rabīʿ al-Avval 1189/24 May 1775.
Folio 309 bound inverted.
Diagrams on folios 309, 433, 456, 458, 464.
Delhi Persian 650 d.
Multiple spiritual genealogies of Shaykh Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad Zih'gīr ibn Khvājah Muḥammad Ibrāhīm al-Kashmīrī (d. 1205/1790-1) linked to the Naqshbandī and Qādirī orders.
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Delhi Persian 650 e.
Certificate of the spiritual genealogy of Shaykh Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad Zih'gīr ibn Khvājah Muḥammad Ibrāhīm al-Kashmīrī (d. 1205/1790-1) linking him to the Kubravīyah Sufi Order, issued 29 Z̲ī Ḥijjah 1176/11 July 1763.
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Delhi Persian 650 f.
Untitled account combining the spiritual genealogies of Shaykh Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad Zih'gīr ibn Khvājah Muḥammad Ibrāhīm al-Kashmīrī (d. 1205/1790-1) from the perspectives of the Suhravardīyah and Naqshbandīyah Sufi Orders, issued in 14 Z̲ī Ḥijjah 1175/6 July 1762 and 1177/1763-4 respectively.
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Delhi Persian 650 g.
Untitled certification of the spiritual genealogy of Shaykh Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad Zih'gīr ibn Khvājah Muḥammad Ibrāhīm al-Kashmīrī (d. 1205/1790-1) linking him to the Chishtīyah Sufi Order, dated 6 Rajab 1177/10 January 1764.
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Delhi Persian 650 h.
Certificate of the spiritual genealogy of Shaykh Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad Zih'gīr ibn Khvājah Muḥammad Ibrāhīm al-Kashmīrī (d. 1205/1790-1) linking him to the Qādirīyah Sufi Order, dated 1196/1782.
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Delhi Persian 650 i.
Fragment of an untitled essay explaining the multiple spiritual and formal Sufi affiliations of Shaykh Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad Zih'gīr ibn Khvājah Muḥammad Ibrāhīm al-Kashmīrī (d. 1205/1790-1).
There is a lacuna between folios 499-500.
Defective at end.
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Delhi Persian 650 j.
Miscellaneous collection of verses consisting of chronogrammatic qiṭaʿāt and ghazalīyāt commemorating the ‘ʿurs’ or date of death of Bābā Ṣāḥib Zih'gīr or rather Shaykh Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad Zih'gīr ibn Khvājah Muḥammad Ibrāhīm al-Kashmīrī, yielding the date 1205/1790-1.
This is followed by compositions relating to the commemorations of Khvājah Muḥammad Qāsim Ṣāḥib, Jalāl Bābā Kāmrājī, and Bābā Niʿmat Allāh Ṣāḥib Kāmrājī.
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On the proceeding folio (503r) is a note by a certain Muḥammad Akbar, dated 7 Rabīʿ al-Avval 1207/23 October 1792.
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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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