[IO Islamic 1426] Naḳshbandî Order
<ul> <li><strong>Naḳshbandî order.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1426 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 636 here with notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p><br> </p> <p>636</p> <p>A very similar work on the Naḳshbandî order, compiled A.H. 947 = A.D. 1540, 1541 (see fol. 1<sup>b</sup>, last line), by Abû al-muḥsin Muḥammad Bâḳir bin Muḥammad ‘Alî, without any special title (on fol. 1<sup>a</sup> it is styled تأريخ غريبه ), in a muḳaddimah, four maḳṣads, and a khâtimah. It differs from the Rashaḥât only in so far, as the biography of the founder of the order, Bahâ-aldîn Muḥammad bin Muḥammad Naḳshband, occupies here the same space as that of ‘Ubaid-allâh Aḥrâr, whose life is the principal theme of the Rashaḥât.</p> <p>Beginning: الحمد لله ربّ العالمين الذى رفع اعلام الشريعة بميامن الخ. .</p> <p><em>Muḳaddimah</em>. Introduction to the history of the Naḳshbandî order, on fol.2<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p><em>Maḳṣad</em> <em>I</em>. Shaikhs prior to Bahâ-aldîn, from the prophet and ‘Alî to Naḳshband himself, on fol. 9<sup>a</sup>.</p> <p><em>Maḳṣad</em> <em>II</em>, in three ḳisms. Life, deeds, sayings, and miracles of Bahâ-aldîn Naḳshband (A.H. 718-791 = A.D. 1318-1389), on fol. 35<sup>a</sup>.</p> <p><em>Maḳṣad</em> <em>III</em>. Shaikhs who lived from Bahâ-aldîn’s time to that of ‘Ubaid-allâh Aḥrâr, on fol. 119<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p><em>Maḳṣad</em> <em>IV</em>. Life, deeds, sayings, and miracles of Khawâjah ’Ubaid-allâh (A.H. 806-895 = A.D. 1404-1490), on fol. 196<sup>a</sup>, in three marṣads and a khâtimah, the subdivisions quite identical with that in the Rashaḥât.</p> <p>No date. Tenth century.</p> <p>No. 1426, ff. 227, ll. 19; good Nasta’lîḳ; size, 10<sup>3/8</sup> in. by 6<sup>3/8</sup> in.</p> <p> </p>
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