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Subject(s)

• Abbasids—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Chishtīyah members—India—Biography—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 47W-52W [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Stamps [Browse]

Contains

• Bū ʻAlī Qalandar, 1209-1324. Poems. Selections. [Browse]
• بو على قلندر، 1209-1324. اشعار. [Browse]
• Chishtī, Ghulām Farīd ibn Ghulām Aḥmad. Faz̤āyil al-awliyā va majālis al-aṣfiyā. [Browse]
• چشتى، غلام فرىد بن غلام احمد. فضاىل الاولىا و مجالس الاصفىا. [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of texts on a variety of topics.

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Title from verso of first flyleaf, by a later hand; followed by a list of contents which contains six titles.
• Layout: 15-28 lines per page ; in one or two columns.
• Description: Rubricated ; some insect damage and occasional staining; some paper repairs. Ink is acidic, resulting in the text showing through on other side.
• Origin: According to Moghadam, likely late 18th century.
• Incipit: [رساله در فضائل بنى عباس] باب سىم اقبال و سعادت و کرامت که حق تعالى بعناىت خوىش ذات ولى -- [مثنوى قلندر] صفات حضرت سلطنت پناه را -- [مثنوى قلندر] مرحبا اى بلبل باغ کهن * از گل رعنا بگو با ما سخن -- [رساله تصوف] معنوى گلشن تو وحدت بازدان * پس دو نسبت دارد آن مغز جان -- [فضاىل الاولىا] الحمد لله الذي نور قلوب الاقطاب باشعشة انوار جماله -- [هذه الرساله الاولى من الاعجاز] هذا الكتاب بفضل الله ذي الكرم * النشاءت سحرا لصيدالجن والنسم -- [رساله اصول عقائد] فرىاد بر آرند که ربنا ابصرنا وسمعنا فارجعنا نعمل صالحا انا موقنون خداوندا گوش ما شنوا کشت

Binding note

Rebound in cloth.

Language note

Persian and Arabic;

Script

• Shikastah;
• Nastaʻlīq.

Contents

• 1. leaves 1a-2a: [Quotations].
• 2. 47W, leaves 2b-10b: [Risālah dar faz̤āʼil-i Banī ʻAbbās]. Bāb 3 of a treatise showing the right of the ʻAbbāsids to the caliphate, with Arabic quotations giving their genealogy.
• 3. 48W, leaves 11a-17b: [Mas̲navī-i Qalandar]. Selection of mas̲navī poems by Bū ʻAlī Qalandar.
• 4. 49W, leaf 19a: [Dream of a Sufi saint and its interpretation].
• 5. 49W, 19b-35b: [Risālah-i taṣavvuf]. Mas̲navī poem containing dates and anecdotes concerning saints of the Chishtī order in India.
• 6. 49W, 35b-36b: [Arabic poem on the Umayyads and ʻAbbāsids]. Followed by a note in Persian on the qualifications of an imām.
• 7. 50W, leaves 37b-38b, 57a-144b: Faz̤āyil al-awliyā va majālis al-aṣfiyā / Ghulām Farīd ibn Ghulām Aḥmad al-Chishtī. A biography of Indian saints of the Chishtī order; first entry is for Muʻīn al-Dīn al-Chishtī. Incomplete at end.
• 8. 51W, leaves 39b-46b: Hāz̲ihi al-Risālah al-ūlá min al-Iʻjāz. Part of an anonymous treatise discussing praise of the Prophet, Sufism, peace and security, relation of kingship to caliphate, and other topics. Incomplete at end.
• 9. 52W, leaves 47a-56b: [Risālah-i uṣūl-i ʻaqāʼid]. Part of a treatise on Islamic doctrine; incomplete at end.

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Provenance

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

Source acquisition

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

References

Moghadam, M. et al. Garrett coll., 87, 129

Other title(s)

• Majmūʻah-i panj kutub
• مجموعه پنج کتب
• Risālah dar faz̤āʼil-i Banī ʻAbbās.
• رساله در فضائل بنى عباس.
• Risālah-i taṣavvuf.
• رساله تصوف.
• Iʻjāz. Risālah 1.
• اعجاز. رساله 1.
• Risālah-i uṣūl-i ʻaqāʼid.
• رساله اصول عقائد.
• Mas̲navī-i Qalandar.
• مثنوى قلندر.
• Hāz̲ihi al-Risālah al-ūlá min al-Iʻjāz.
• هذه الرساله الاولى من الاعجاز.

OCLC

846679512

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