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Subject(s)

• Sufism—Doctrines—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• God (Islam)—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Mysticism—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Vedanta—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Soul—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Poverty—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Sufism—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Contains

• Ḥusaynī al-Aḥmadī, Shāh ʻAlī Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm. Burhān-i vaḥdat Allāh. [Browse]
• حسينى الاحمدى، شاه على محمد بن ابراهيم. برهان وحدت الله. [Browse]
• ʻAbd al-Quddūs Ismāʻīl. Risālah-ʼi rushdīyah fī bayān al-tawḥīd. Juzʼ 1. [Browse]
• عبد القدوس اسماعيل. رسالۀ رشدية فى بيان التوحيد. جزء 1. [Browse]
• ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī, -1166. Risālah-ʼi vujūdīyah. [Browse]
• عبد القادر الجيلانى، -1166. رسالۀ وجودية. [Browse]
• Bū ʻAlī Qalandar, 1209-1324. Risālah-i Shāh Sharaf Bū ʻAlī Qalandar. [Browse]
• بو على قلندر، 1209-1324. رساله شاه شرف بو على قلندر. [Browse]
• Mak̲h̲dūm Jahāniyān Jahān̲ Gasht, Jalāluddīn, -1383. Risālah-i Makkīyah-i jalālīyah. [Browse]
• مکهدوم جهانيان جهان گشت، جلالدين، -1383. رساله مكية جلالية. [Browse]
• Naṣīr, Kabīr Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Qāsim. Maktūb-i Kabīr Aḥmad. [Browse]
• نصير، کبير احمد بن ابى القاسم. مکتوب کبير احمد. [Browse]

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Collective title supplied by cataloger.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 142 ; catchwords.
• Layout: 17-20 lines per page.
• Description: Written in small shikastah in black ; rubricated ; a few marginal notes. Most of leaf 4 blank ; some insect damage, mainly marginal, as well as damp-staining and paper repairs.
• Paper: Cream, glazed, laid Arabic paper.
• Origin: [Aṭvār dar ḥall-i asrār] dated 8 Rabīʻ I 1084 H [23 June 1673] (leaf 35a). [Risālah dar maʻrifat-i nafs] dated 8 Jumādá II 1084 H [20 September 1673] (leaf 73b). The remainder of the texts are likely from the same year, with the exception of [Risālah-i Laṭāyif ...] According to Moghadam, the text was originally written in 1100 H [1688 or 1689] according to chronogram on leaf 142b.
• Incipit (continued): [رساله در معرفت نفس] در بيان معرفت نفس خود که فرمان حق تعالى ميشود که در ذاتهاى شما اوست پس نمى بينيد شما -- [رساله مكيه] الحمد لله الذي كرم للطالب بطيب قربه وقواهم بطريق حبه -- [مکتوب کبير] صير الغني البطر فقيرا بعدله لصلاحه والفقير المفتقر غنيا بفضله لفلاحه -- [رساله لطايف] سال تاريخ اين غنيمت پاک * اينچنين يافتم من از اوراک
• Incipit: [Treatise] بعد از حمد پروردگار و ثناء خالق ليل و نهار که لا أحصى ثناء اوست -- [رسالۀ برهان] الحمد لله الذي هو السميع العليم وكرم الانسان خلاصة الموجودات -- [اطوار] حمد و ثنائي که لايق ذات خداى است که از نقوش علمى رحمانى -- [رسالۀ رشديه] الحمد لله الذي بداء الخلق بعدمه وصور بصورته ونور بنوره وزين بزينته -- [رساله من عرف] الحمد لله ... بعد از آن بدانکه بحکم من عرف نفسه فقد عرف ربه الحديث پروردگار عالم بحکم ازلى خود چهار عناصر -- [رسالۀ وجودية] قال النبى صلى الله عليه وسلم من عرف نفسه فقد عرف ربه خودرا شناخت خدارا شناخت اينست خاک آب آتش باد هوا -- [رساله شاه شرف] اى برادر بدانيد که مسلمانرا کلمۀ طيب بس است

Binding note

Half leather with marbled paper covers. Spine detached.

Language note

Persian.

Contents

• 1. 7W, fol. 1a-14a: [Treatise on Sufism]. Anonymous treatise on Sufi doctrine.
• 2. 7W, fol. 14b-19a: Risālah-ʼi Burhān-i vaḥdat Allāh / Shāh ʻAlī Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ḥusaynī al-Aḥmadī. Treatise on tawḥīd in four faṣl, with introduction added by the author's grandson.
• 3. 7W, fol. 19b-20a: Ṭarīqat-i sabʻ ṣifāt dar tafakkurāt.
• 4. 8W, fol. 21b-35a: Aṭvār dar ḥall-i asrār. Persian translation of what appears to be a summary of the Yogavāsiṣṭha, with Islamic interpretation, as it is described as a conversation between Basīst and Rāmachand (leaf 21b). Arranged in ten ṭawr and translated by Ṣūfī Sharīf during the reign of Mogul Emperor Jahāngīr.
• 5. 9W, fol. 36b-51b: al-Juz-i avval min Risālah-ʼi rushdīyah fī bayān al-tawḥīd. Treatise on the Sufi doctrine of unity; incomplete at end.
• 6. 10W, fol. 52b-54a: Risālah-i man ʻarafa nafsahu fa-qad ʻarafa rabbah. Treatise on Sufi symbolism.
• 7. 10W, fol. 54a-57a: Risālah-ʼi vujūdīyah / ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī. Short work on Sufi symbolism; likely an excerpt from one of the author's works.
• 8. 11W, fol. 57b-62a: Risālah-i Shāh Sharaf Bū ʻAlī Qalandar. Treatise on Sufi doctrines and symbolism, explaining the meaning of the Divine Word, Qurʼān 2:30, and the ḥadīth "inna Allāh khalaqa Ādam ʻalá ṣūratih."
• 9. 11W, fol. 63b-73b: Risālah dar maʻrifat-i nafs. Sufi treatise on the soul.
• 10. 12W, fol. 75b-94b: Risālah-i Makkīyah-i jalālīyah / Mak̲h̲dūm Jahāniyān. Treatise on the Sufi way of life; incomplete at end.
• 11. 13W, leaves 95b-106b: Maktūb-i Kabīr Aḥmad. Treatise on how to avoid poverty, consisting mainly of superstitious advice; incomplete at end.
• 12. 14W, leaves 107a-108b: [Two leaves from a commentary on a philosophical text]. In Arabic.
• 13. 14W, leaves 109a-110b: [Two leaves from a Sufi text].
• 14. 15W, leaves 111a-142b: [Risālah-i Laṭāyif ...]. Anecdotes in verse, mainly erotic, arranged in laṭāyif. Incomplete at beginning.

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Provenance

On leaf 1a, stamp of ʻUmar ibn Rasūl Khān Vurdī Mayjur, dated 1256 H [1840 or 1841]. Acquired from Widgery, Cambridge, 1925.

Source acquisition

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

References

• Moghadam, M. et al. Garrett coll., 122, 106, 113, 127, 99, 147
• Markaz-i Mīkrūfīlm-i Nūr, Kitābkhānahhā-yi Gujarāt no. 280, 63

Other title(s)

• Treatise on Sufism.
• Ṭarīqat-i sabʻ ṣifāt dar tafakkurāt.
• طريقت سبع صفات در تفكرات.
• Aṭvār dar ḥall-i asrār.
• اطوار در حل اسرار.
• Yogavāsiṣṭha.
• Risālah-i man ʻarafa nafsahu fa-qad ʻarafa rabbah.
• رساله من عرف نفسه فقد عرف ربه.
• Risālah dar maʻrifat-i nafs.
• رساله در معرفت نفس.
• Risālah-i Laṭāyif.
• رساله لطايف.
• Risālah-ʼi Aṭvār dar ḥall-i asrār.
• رسالۀ اطوار در حل اسرار.

OCLC

843770149

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