Persian MS 682 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Summary of Contents: A copy of the Nuzhat al-Arvāḥ (Excursion of Spirits), a popular work on Ṣūfī spiritual life composed by Ḥusayn ibn ‘Alim ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥusaynī (d. 1318), known as Amir Ḥusainī or Fakhr al-Sādāt, in 711 AH (1311–1312 CE) when 40 years old. Comprised of twenty-eight faṣl (chapters) of a mixture of prose and poetry, it commences with an panegyric preface that praises God, the Prophet Muhammad, and the first four Caliphs, followed by a series of parables and proverbs that illustrate the mystical quest. An unidentified scribe possibly completed this manuscript in the Indian subcontinent in 1006 AH (1597 CE).