IO Islamic 4570 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

A Persian commentary on the well-known metaphysical treatise in Arabic by Muḥammad b. Faz̤l al-Burhānpūrī (d. 1029/1620), محمد بن فضل البرهانپوری

This commentary, written it seems during the lifetime of al-Burhānpūrī, البرهانپوری , lacks the preface

Transcription completed in Safar 1210; Fol. 16 is blank

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A brief anonymous account of the theosophical doctrines of the Ṣūfīs

Transcription completed on 10 Rabīʻ i 1210

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An exposition, illustrated by diagrams, of the theosophical ontology of the Ṣūfīs, written at the request of >Amīr Sayyid Maḥmūd “Arjumand Khān”, امیر سید محمود "ارجمند خان"

Transcription completed on 10 Rabīʻ i 1210; Foll. 27-8 are blank

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An anonymous tract on the secret meaning of predestination

Transcription completed on 8 Rabīʻ-ʼi 1210 >

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A theosophical disquisition in the form of a dialogue between the author's higher and lower self

A Ṣūfī of this name is mentioned as one of the successors of Muḥammad Ṣādiq b. Fatḥ Allāh Gangōʼī Chishtī, محمد صادق بن فتح الله گتکوئی چشتی , and presumably lived in the second half of the seventeenth century: he is stated to have written a Risālah dar bayān-i az̲kār va ashghāl ( رساله در بیان اذکار و اشغال ) and an Arabic qaṣīdah, and it is possible that the author of the present treatise may be the same person

Transcription completed on 23 Rabīʻ-ʼi 1210

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A theosophical treatise, variously ascribed to Maḥmūd Ushnūʼī “Durr-i Yatīm”, محمود اشنوئى "در يايم" , an obscure Indian Ṣūfī of the seventeenth century, and (as in this copy) to the celebrated ʻAyn al-Quḍāh al-Hamadhānī, author of the Tamhīdāt ( تمهیدان ) and other well-known works, who died in 533: the latter ascription is decidedly false

Transcription completed on 13 Ṣafar 1210

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Religious and mystical meditations

The author is otherwise known as the author of an epic entitled Najībnāmah ( نجیبنامه ) or Nāmah-ʼi ṭurfah ( نامۀ طرفه ) on the career of the Rohilla chief Najīb al-Daulah, d. 1185/1771, نجیب الدوله

The work is made up of sections called laṭīfah

Transcription completed on 17 Muḥarram 1210

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A very short tract in explanation of a saying of Shaikh ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq Muḥammad Makhdūm al-Qādirī, شیخ عبد الحق محمد مخدوم القادری , perhaps the same as Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq, author of a Risālah dar bayān-i wāḥidīyah ( رساله در بیان وحيدية )

The date of transcription is not given

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A brief discussion of a saying of Shaikh ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq Muḥammad Makhdūm al-Qādirī, شیخ عبد الحق محمد مخدوم القادری

Transcription completed on 20 Muḥarram 1210

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A short treatise in the form of a catechism explaining difficult points of Ṣūfī metaphysics

The date of transcription is not given

Foll. 117-19 are blank

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The commentary on the Lavāʼiḥ ( لوائح ) of Jāmī, 1414-1492, and completed in 901

This work is the same as the Ḥāshīyah-ʼi Lavāʼiḥ ( حاشیۀ لوائح ) , except that in the present copy the exordium is omitted, and the text begins at a point which corresponds with fol. 2a (line 7) in Ethe's copy

Transcription completed on 13 Dhūʼl-Ḥijjah 1209

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