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Subject(s)

• Sufi chants [Browse]
• Sufism—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Religious life—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Muslims—Conduct of life—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic ethics—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Contains

• Dārā Shikūh, Prince, son of Shahjahan, Emperor of India, 1615-1659. Ḥasanāt al-ʻārifīn. [Browse]
• دارا شکوه، 1615-1659. حسنات العارفىن. [Browse]
• Jāmī, 1414-1492. Lavāyiḥ. [Browse]
• جامى، 1414-1492. لواىح. [Browse]
• Miyān̲ K̲h̲ūb Muḥammad Cishtī, 1539-1614. Ṣulḥ-i kull. [Browse]
• Bāqī billāh, 1563 or 1564-1603 or 1604. Risālah. [Browse]
• باقى بالله، 1563 or 4-1603 or 4. رساله. [Browse]
• Ghazzālī, 1058-1111. Ayyuhā al-walad. [Browse]
• غزالي، 1058-1111. ايها الولد. [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of six texts on Sufism in Persian and Arabic.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Physical description: 15-19 lines per page; written in black by different hands on brown Arabic glazed, laid paper. Text 1 written in naskhi; texts 2-6 written in nastaʻliq. Catchwords and rubrication; a few marginal notes. Some insect damage. List of texts on fol. 1a and on label on front cover. Numbers 20-24 in Western numerals listed on label on back cover. Fol. 10a-14a, 47b-48a, 75a, 85b-86a, 99b-100 are either blank or contain title information by a later hand.
• Text 1 incipit: بسم الله ... الحمد لله الذي خص الاولىاء بحسن الاستماع
• Text 2 incipit: بسم الله ... احدى راست حمد بىحد که حمد و حامد و محمود اوست و حمدى راست
• Text 3 incipit: بسم الله ... رب وفقنا للتكميل والتميم لا احصى ثناء عليك كيف وكل ثنائي يعود اليك
• Text 4 incipit: بسم الله ... حمد جلىلى را که بجمىع محامد محمد است و صلوات بر انسان کامل که در مرتبه جامع محمد است
• Text 5 incipit: بسم الله ... الحمد لله الحمد لله که حقىقت از آفتاب روشن تر است
• Text 6 incipit (after introduction): بسم الله ... ايها الولد العزيز المحب اطال الله بقاءك لطاعته

Binding note

Full burgundy leather binding with gilt-stamped fillets.

Language note

Persian and Arabic.

Contents

• 1. 20W, fol. 1b-9b: [Treatise on the lawfulness of samāʻ]. In Arabic.
• 2. 21W, fol. 14b-47a: Ḥasanāt al-ʻārifīn / Dārā Shikūh. In Persian; year of compilation is given as 1062H (1651 or 2) (fol. 14b).
• 3. 22W, fol. 48b-66b: Lavāyiḥ / Jāmī. In Persian. In Persian; dated Jumādá al-Thānī 1232H (April-May 1817) (fol. 66b).
• 4. 23W, fol. 67a-74b: Ṣulḥ-i kull / Khūb Muḥammad Chishtī. In Persian; composed in 1016H (1607 or 8) and dated Ramaḍān 1232H (July-August 1817) (fol. 74b).
• 5. 23W, fol. 75b-85a: Risālah / Muḥammad Bāqī Billāh. In Persian; dated Ramaḍān 1232H (July-August 1817) (fol. 85a).
• 6. 24W, fol. 86b-98b: Ayyuhā al-walad / al-Ghazzālī. In Arabic; dated Ramaḍān 1232H (July-August 1817) (fol. 98b). Followed by a short prayer in Arabic and Persian on fol. 99a.

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Provenance

Acquired from Widgery, Cambridge, 1925.

Source acquisition

Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. et al. Descriptive catalog, 1985, 2012.
• Moghadam, M. et al. Garrett coll., 101, 108, 111.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

678575815

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