Details

Subject(s)

• Sufism—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Sufis—Genealogy—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Naqshabandīyah—Biography—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

A chart with short biographies of Naqshabandī shaykhs to 1570 (according to Āghā Buzurg, the text was completed in Rabīʻ I 978 H). Text consists of a preface, a multi-page chart with a central line and branches, and a khātimah. Preceded by a poem addressed to the reader on fol. 1a.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Caption title from fol. 1b.
• Physical description: 21-23 lines per page; written in ruqʻah in black on glazed, laid European paper, bearing the watermark of an eagle set over the letters GFA. Rubrication and catchwords. Fol. 19b-22b blank. Some staining and edges somewhat ragged. In good condition.
• Incipit: الحمد لله الذي رفع الاولياء والاصفياء في الدارين مقاما ووهب لمن انتصب لخدمته عزا وشرافا واحتراما

Binding note

Half leather with purple paper covers; brown paper flyleaves and pastedowns.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

The name "ʻAbd Allāh al-Qazvīnī" in inscribed in pencil on fol. ia.

References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), XXI, 70 (no. 3999)

Other title(s)

• سلسلۀ نقشبنديه
• مشيخة

Title on fol. ia

• Silsilah-ʾi Naqshabandīyah

Title given by Āghā Buzurg

• Mashyakhah

OCLC

819532806

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