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[IO Islamic 1450] Akhbâr-alakhyâr

<ul> <li>Akhbâr-alakhyâr.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 640 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 1450 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul>   640 Akhbâr-alakhyâr (اخبار الاخيار). Biographies of the most renowned Shaikhs and holy men of India, from the Muḥammadan conquest to the end of the tenth century of the Hijrah, compiled by ‘Abd-alḥaḳḳ bin Saif-aldîn alturk aldihlawî albukhârî (see fol. 5b, ll. 10 and 11), the well-known author of the تأريخ حقّى ( see Bodleian Cat., Nos. 195-198; Rieu i. p. 223, and No. 290 in this Cat.) the جذب القلوب الى دار المحبوب , a history of Madînah ( see further below in the next chapter ‘Geography, etc.’) , and many other biographical and mystical works. He was not able to finish the original sketch of this work, made many years before, until after his return from Ḥijâz, whither he had gone, A.H. 996 (A.D.1588), see fol. 269a, in A.H. 999 (A.D.1591), according to the chronogram on fol. 268b: نام و تأريخ اين كتاب عزيز – گر كنى ذكر الاوليا احسن which gives us at the same time ذكر الاوليا as an additional title of this work, other copies of which are described in Bodleian Cat., No. 363 , and Rieu i. p. 355, where as final date of completion, A.H. 1028 (A.D. 1619) is given, in consequence of an incidental remark in Jahângîr’s autobiographical memoirs. The above chronogram, which seems to fix definitely the completion of the work, has not been noticed in any previous copy. The work begins with the biography of the great Ṣûfic Shaikh ‘Abd-alḳâdir aljilânî , on fol. 9b , after which follows immediately that of Khwâjah Mu’în-alḥaḳḳ wa-aldîn Sijzî, the founder of the Ćishtî order (who died A.H. 633 = A.D. 1236, see No. 637, I) , his contemporaries and disciples , on fol. 22b ( طبقۀ اول ); it goes then over to Shaikh Farîd-alḥaḳḳ wa-aldîn Ganj-i-Shakar (who died A.H. 664 = A.D. 1265), his followers and pupils, on fol. 49a. ( طبقۀ دوم ); enumerates all the Shaikhs from the time of Naṣîr-aldîn Maḥmûd Ćirâgh of Dihlî ( died A.H. 757=A.D. 1356) down to the author’s own epoch , on fol. 73b; and deals towards the end in special chapters with a number of ecstatic Shaikhs (ذكر بعضى مجاذب ), on fol. 240a ; with female saints ( ذكر بعضى از نساء صالحات ) on fol. 245a.and the author’s ancestors, family, and own life ( here styled تكمله , in the index on fol. 9a خاتمه ), on fol.248a. Beginning: شكر مر حضرت واهب العطيّات را كه عطاى اورا پايان نيست الخ . The margin of ff. 2-87 is covered with fragments of theological and cosmographical treatises, without any title. No date. No. 1450, ff.270, ll. 17; unequal Nasta’lîḳ; the first page supplied later; size, 10 in. by 57/8 in.

[IO Islamic 1313] سير العارفين

<ul> <li>Siyar-al’ârifîn.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1313 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 637 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 637 Siyar-al’ârifîn (سير العارفين). Biographies of fourteen renowned Shaikhs and holy men of India, all belonging to the Ćishtî order, compiled by <a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n2002059061/">Ḥâmid bin Faḍl-allâh</a>, known as Darwîsh (or Mullâ) Jamâlî, see fol. 2b. ll. 2. and 3. Other copies of the work are described in Rieu I. p. 354, and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 556. According to A. Sprenger’s Cat. Oudh, p. 446 the poet Jamâlî of Dihlî died A.H. 922 or 925, the author of the Safînah also fixes his death in 925 (A.D.1519) , and refutes the statement of the author of the Ṭabaḳât-i-Shâhjahânî, that he had lived until A.H. 942 ( comp. Bodleian Cat., No 376, 43). According to the same Safînah, Jamâlî was born near Dihlî, went to Khurâsân under Sulṭân Ḥusain Mirzâ, made the acquaintance of the poet Jâmî, undertook extensive journeys, returned afterwards to India and was in high favour with Sulṭân <a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/np-sikandar%20lodi/">Sikandar Lûdî</a> and also with the emperor <a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n50053659/">Bâbar</a>. This book is dedicated on fol. 4b, last line, to <a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n50034146/">Humâyûn</a>, and since the epithets given to his name seem to imply that he was sovereign ruler already at that time, the book must have been finished after A.H.937 = A.D. 1530 (the date of Humâyûn’s accession to the throne), and the poet cannot have died already, A.H. 925. A.H. 942 (A.D. 1535, 1536) seems therefore, after all, the more correct date of Jamâlî’s death; comp. also Bodleian Cat., No. 1274. In the preface the author gives us a short statement about his pilgrimage to Makkah, and his travels in Maghrib, Yaman, Palestine, Rûm, Syria, the two ’Irâḳs, Adharbaijân, Gilân, Mâzandarân, and Khurâsân, and tells us, that after his return to Dihlî his friends requested him to write a book on the learned Shaikhs of all the countries which he had visited. But he found that too great a task, and resolved, therefore, to write a work exclusively on Indian Saints. The fourteen biographies deal with the following Shaikhs: 1. Sulṭân-almashâyikh Mu’în-aldîn Hasan Bin Ghiyâth-aldîn alḥusainî alḥasanî Sijzî [ed note: more generally <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu%27in_al-Din_Chishti">Muʿīn al-Dīn Chishtī</a>] (سِجْزِى   as explained in a marginal gloss : بكسر سين مهملَه و سكون جيم و كسر زاى معجمه ), on fol. 5a . He died, A.H. 633 (A.D. 1236), in Ajmîr, see further down in the Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 110. 2. Ḥadrat Shaikh-almashâyikh Badr-almillat wa-aldîn Maḥmûd Mû’înadûz (the furrier) Khujandî, on fol. 18b. 3. Ḥaḍrat Shaikh-alislâm Bahâ-almillat wa-aldîn Zakariyyâ, on fol. 20b (see the Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 152). 4. Ḥaḍrat Sulṭân-al’âshiḳîn Burhâu-alwâḥidîn Ḳuṭb-aldîn Bakhtiyâr Ûshî [ed note: more generally <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qutbuddin_Bakhtiar_Kaki">Quṭb al-Dīn Bakhtiyār Kākī</a>], on fol. 54b (see the Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 112). 5. Ḥaḍrat Shaikh-almashâyikh wa-alauliyâ Farîd-almillah wa-aldîn Mas’ûd (i.e. the well-known <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fariduddin_Ganjshakar">Ganj-i-Shakar</a>, see the Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 113), on fol. 74a. 6. Ḥaḍrat Sulṭân-almashâyikh Ṣadr-aldîn ‘Ârif, on fol.111b. (see the Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 155). 7. Ḥaḍrat Sulṭân-almashâyikh <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizamuddin_Auliya">Niżâm-aldîn</a> Muḥammad Badâ’ûnî (i.e. Shaikh Auliyâ, see the Safînat alauliyâ, No 114), on fol. 128b. He died A.H. 725 A.D. 1325). 8. Ḥaḍrat Malik-almashâyikh wa-alauliyâ Rukn-aldîn Abû-alḳâsim Abû-alfatḥ, on fol. 168b. He was the son of Ṣadr-aldîn ‘Ârif (see the Safînat-alauliyâ, No.156). 9. Ḥaḍrat Malik-almashâyikh <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_8596">Shaikh Ḥamîd-aldîn Nâgûrî</a>, on fol. 178b (see the Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 111). 10. Ḥaḍrat Malik-almashâyikh Shaikh Najîb Mutawakkil , on fol. 189b. 11. Ḥaḍrat Sulṭân-almashâyikh Shaikh Jalâl-aldîn Abû-alḳâsîm Tabrîzî, on fol. 197a. 12. Ḥaḍrat Shaikh-almashâyikh Naṣîr-almillah wa-aldîn Maḥmûd Audhî (i.e. Ćirâgh of Dihlî, see the Safînat-alauliyâ, No.116), on fol. 207b. 13. Ḥaḍrat Malik- almashâyikh Ma’rifat-shi’ârî Siyâdat-dithârî Sayyid Jalâl-almillah wa-aldîn Makhdûm-i-Jahâniyân Bukhârî, on fol. 214a (see the Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 157). He died A.H. 785 (A.D. 1384). 14. Ḥaḍrat Samâ almillah wa-aldîn Sulṭân-almuḥaḳḳiḳîn u Burhân-al’ârifîn Sulṭân-almashâyikh Samâlmillat wa-aldîn, the author’s spiritual guide, on fol. 226b.He received the investiture from Shaikh Kabîr-aldîn Isma’îl, and died A.H. 901, the 17th of Jumâdâ-alawwal=A.D. 1496, February 2 ( see fol. 243a, ll. 6-10, where the following ta’rîkh is given by Jamâlî : هشت خلد آمد بنام او اگر پرسد كسى – سال تأريخش بگو هشت آمده بر نام او , i.e. هشت = 705, came upon ( was added) to his name , viz . سماء الدين = 196 , total 901 ) . Of these fourteen Shaikhs, No. 2 is wanting in Rieu’s copy and No. 14 in Pertsch’s, so that the present copy is the fullest yet met with. Beginning of the preface, on fol. 1b: حمدى كه ابواب سعادت بر ارباب عبادت مفتوح گردانيد و سپاسى الخ An index on the fly-leaf. Copied in Shawwâl, A.H. 1043 (A.D. 1634, April), at Lâhûr; this copy belonged formerly to Mr. <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4085990">Richard Johnson</a>. No. 1313, ff. 244, ll. 13; inelegant Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 97/8 in. by 53/8 in.

[IO Islamic 868] Akhbâr-alaṣfiyâ

<ul> <li>Akhbâr-alaṣfiyâ .</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 641 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 868 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul>   641 Akhbâr-alaṣfiyâ (اخبار الاصفيا ) . A much smaller and less known work, of very similar contents, giving likewise biographies of all the famous Saints and Shaikhs who have lived or stayed in India, compiled by ‘Abd-alṣamad bin Afḍal Muḥammad bin Yûsuf Anṣârî, a nephew of the famous Abû-alfḍl and editor of his official letters, the مكاتبات علاّمى , see above, Nos. 271-286 in this Cat., compare also Rieu iii. p. 1087a, where as title of the present work is given: اخبارات الاصفيا . It was completed A.H. 1014 (A.D.1605, 1606) and dedicated to the emperor Jahângîr, see fol. 1b, fol. 6b, last line, fol. 7a, ll. 15 and 16, and fol. 7b, ll. 14 and 15. It contains short biographical accounts of 245 male and 4 female persons, beginning, like the preceding work, with Ghauth alṣamadânî Ḳuṭb-i-rabbânî Shaikh Muḥyî-aldîn Abû Muḥammad ‘Abd-alḳâdir alḥasanî alḥusainî aljilânî ( born A.H. 471 = A.D. 1079, died A.H. 561 = A.D. 1166 ), see fol. 8b, and ends with Fâṭimah Sâlimah, on fol. 70a. A complete index on ff. 1b-5a; the work itself begins thus, on fol. 6b: جهان جهان آفرين مرجان و جهان آفرين را كه جهان دانش و جان سخن بصاحب فطرتان الخ , and concludes on fol. 70b. Ff. 71b-74b are filled by another hand with a story of Shaikh Sharaf-aldîn Abû ‘Alî Ḳalandar of Pânîpat (who died A.H. 724=A.D. 1324, see Rieu ii. p. 668, and iii. p. 1090b sq.). Copied by Bâḳir Sâmânî, in the thirty-first year of ‘Âlamgîr’s reign (A.H. 1098, 1099 = A.D. 1687, 1688). No. 868, ff. 74, ll. 19-28; very irregularly and unequally written in Shikasta; size, 105/8 in. by 63/8 in.

[IO Islamic 1523] ترجمۀ روضة الرياحين

<ul> <li>Tarjuma-i-Rauḍat-alriyâḥîn.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 642 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 1523 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 642 Tarjuma-i-Rauḍat-alriyâḥîn ( ترجمۀ روضة الرياحين ) . Biography of Saints and great Shaikhs, translated from the Arabic work (or more correctlyروض ) روضة الرياحين فى حكايات الصّالحين , by <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n85155742/">‘Abdallâh bin As’ad alyâfi’î alyamanî</a>, or with his fuller name : Abû-alsa’âdat or alsa’âdât (in the Cat. Codd. Or. Lugd. Bat. once: Abû-alsiyâdat) ‘Afîf-aldîn Abû Muḥammad ‘Abdallâh bin As’ad bin ‘Alî alyâfi’î alyamanî, who died A.H. 768, the 20th or 21st of Jumâdâ-alâkhar (A.D. 1367, February 21); compare O. Loth, Arabic MSS. of the India Office Library, p. 202 [ed note: <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5594630">IO Islamic 708</a>]; Cat. Codd. Or. Lugd. Bat. ii. p. 299; Ḥ. Khalfa iii. p. 488; the Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 62, etc. He was the author of many other similar works, all dealing more or less with the great Shaikh ‘Abd-alḳâdir Jîlânî and the Ḳâdirî Saints, viz. ارشاد و التطريز (Ḥ. Kh. i. p. 254); اسنى المفاخر , in praise of the Shaikh ‘Abd-alḳâdir ( Ḥ. Kh. i. p. 293); اطراف التواريخ (ib. i. p. 344); خلاصة المفاخر , also a history of that Shaikh (ib. iii. p. 167; comp. Bodleian Cat., No. 332) درر فى مدح سيّد البشر , a poem (ib. iii. p. 221); كفاية المعتقد (ib. v. p. 226); مرآة الجنان و عبرة اليقظان , a history from the Hijrah down to A.H. 750 (ib. v. p. 481; comp. O. Loth, Arabic MSS., p. 201 [ed note: <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5594620">IO Islamic 572</a>], and G. Flügel ii. p. 43); مرهم العلل المعطّلة (ib. v. p. 501 ); مناقب الامام مايه , in praise of Imâm Mâyah of the Ash’ariyyah sect (ib . vi. p. 151) ; منهل المفهوم (ib . vi. p. 225) ; نشر الريحان (ib. vi. p. 342); نشر المحاسن العاليّة (ib . vi. p. 344) ; نفحات الازهار ( ib. vi. p. 366) ; نوادر المعانى (ib. vi. p. 387); نهاية المحيا , a poem with commentary in praise of famous Shaikhs (ib. vi. p. 404) ; المرهم فى الاصول الدينيّة and the epitome of the same, styled الشاش المُعْلَم شاووش كتاب المرهم الخ (Cat. Codd. Or. Lugd.Bat. ii. p. 315); فوائد جليلة عظيمة النفع جداًّ مجموعة من مواضع متفرّقة من كتاب الدّر النظيم (ib. iv. p. 341; comp. Ḥ. Khalfa iii . p. 197), etc. etc. The present work is also styled: نزهة العيون النواظر و تحفة القلوب الحواضر فى حكايات الصاحين و الاولياء الاكابر . This prose-translation in Persian, which is contained in our copy, is not mentioned anywhere. It was made by Faḍl-Allâh bin Asad-allâh alḥusaini ala’râbî alsimnânî, with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takhallus">takhalluṣ</a> Jahânî (see fol. 3b, last line but two), under <a href="https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2016211254.html">Sulṭân Muḥammad Ḳuṭbshâh</a> (who reigned A.H. 1020-1035 = A.D. 1612-1626); see fol. 5b, l.1. It contains 500 ḥikâyât in two faṣls: 1. در شمّۀ از فضائل اولياء سالكين و فقراى صالحين , on fol. 8a; 2. در اثبات كرامات اولياى عظام و اصفياى كرام و ظهور كرامات on fol.24a . The first story begins on fol. 31a with a legend of Abû-alfaiḍ Dhû-alnûn Miṣrî (who died in Sh’abân, A.H. 240= A.D. 855, January). The Persian translator has added to the original work a long appendix of his own, or khâtimah, treating especially of the life and miracles of the great Shaikh ‘Abd-alḳâdir Jîlânî, in three faṣls, viz.: 1. در شرح احوال بعضى مشايخ , on fol. 371a. 2. در جواب شبهاتى كه بعضى از فقها مثل ابن جوزى و غيره در حكايات اين طائفۀ عليّه أورده اند, on fol. 410b. 3.در بيان برخى از عقائد مشايخ و علماى ربّانين بطريق اختصار , on fol. 410b. Beginning of the preface: حمد و ثنا مبدعى را كه از بدايت صباح وجود تا نهايت رواح عدم هرچه هست در حدّ پادشاهىء اوست الخ A lacuna after fol. 7. Fol. 200 and several of the last leaves injured. The title جامع الحكايات , given to this book on fol. 1a, is a mistake, probably caused by the initial words, which are identical with those of Muḥammad ‘Aufî’s well-known work of the same title; see Nos. 600-604 in this Catalogue. Dated the 10th of Jumâdâ -alawwal, A.H. 1026 (A.D. 1617, May 16), which cannot be much later than the completion of the work itself. No. 1523, ff. 412, ll. 19; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 12. By 71/8 in.

[IO Islamic 3100] Maḳâmât-i-Sayyid Atâ'î

<ul> <li> Maḳâmât-i-Sayyid Atâ’î.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 644 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 3100 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 644 Maḳâmât-i-Sayyid Atâ’î (مقامات سيّد اتائى ) The life, miracles, and spiritual teachings of the great Saint of the Yasawî order, Jamâl-aldîn Khwâjah Dîwâna Sayyid Atâ’î of Khwârizm and Khaiwaḳ, who was born in the reign of Shâh Isma’îl Ṣafawî ( the exact date is given on fol. 14b, last line, and fol. 15a, first line: چون حضرت ايشان چهار مايه شدند فتنۀ شاه اسمعيل واقع گرديد , and likewise on fol.31a, l. 1 sq.: حضرت ايشان در هنگام شیر خوارگى بودند كه فترات غريبه نمود و بسبب هجوم قزلباش و ( فتنۀ شاه اسمعيل كار اكثر آنحدود بقتل انجاميد الخ , And died A.H. 1016= A.D. 1607 , 1608 (see fol. 118a, ll. 1 and 2 and fol. 123a , first line ; chronogram : تاج سر اوليا شد , on fol. 122a , last line ), 100 or even 103 years old ( see fol. 122b, l.9: - زهى خواجۀ خواجگان خواجۀ ما كه صد سال هادئ راه هُدا شد and fol. 122b , l.9 sq.:خواجۀ خواجگان جمال الدين آن نمايندۀ طريق هدا مرشد سالكان خفيه و جهر هادئ طالبان راه خدا صد و سی (سه read ) سال در جهان ميزد (الخ, which would fix his birth either in A.H. 916 ( A.D. 1510, 1511) or in A.H. 913 ( A.D. 1507 , 1508). His father was Sayyid Pâdishâh Khwâjah Pardapûsh (پرده پوش ), of the Yasawî order, and he traces his descent to Sulṭân Khwâjah Aḥmad Yasawî, called Atâ (father), the founder of the Yasawî order and third Khalifah of Abû Ya’ḳûb Yûsuf bin Ayyûb of Hamdân (see the Safînat- alauliyâ, Nos. 73 and 75 ). This work was compiled by the Saint’s younger son, Muḥammad Ḳâsim bin Khwâjah Dîwâna Sayyid Atâ’î, with the takhalluṣ Riḍwân ( see fol. 2b, ll. 8 and 9, and fol. 123a, l. 10 ), on the basis of some previous works on the same subject, one by Âkhund Maulânâ Darwîsh Tâshkandî, the other by Ḳâḍî Jân Muḥammad bin Ḳaḍî Khân Bukhârî (بجارى , probably a mistake for بخارى ), styled مقامات العارفين ( see ff. 4a, ll. 7 and 12-13 , and 4b, l . 3 sq.) , at the suggestion of his brother Khwâjah Abû-alḥasan (see fol. 4b, last line sq.), and completed the first of Muḥarram, A.H. 1036= A.D. 1626, September 22 ( see fol. 124b, ll. 8 and 9 ) . It is divided into a muḳaddimah, four maḳâms, and a khâtimah. Muḳaddimah, on fol. 6b: Explanation of the Ṣûfic terms ولى , ولايت , كرامت , خوارق عادات , etc. (در تحقيق معنئ ولايت و ولى و طبقات اولياء الله و اثبات كرامات و اقسام خوارق عادات الخ ) . Maḳâm I, on fol.14b: Genealogy and pedigree of the great Saint Jamâl-aldîn Dîwâna and the ramification of his family with the Yasawî, Kubrawî, and Naḳshbandî orders ( در ذكر شجرۀ نسبى و سلسلۀ حسبئ حضرت ايشان ) . Maḳâm II: Life and travels of the Saint, on fol. 30b (در ذکر مبادئ احوال و سیاحات حضرت ایشان). Maḳâm III: Miracles of the Saint, on fol. 47a ( در ذكر بعضى از خوارق عادات و برخى از كرامات حضرت ايشان ). Maḳâm IV: Spiritual sayings of the Saint, on fol. 102aدر ذكر بعضى از كلمات قدسيّۀ حضرت ايشان ) ) . Khâtimah: Last illness and death of the Saint, on fol. 116a ( در مرض موت حضرت ايشان و كيفيّت انتقال آنحضرت الخ ). Beginning: سر نامۀ مقامات اولياء هستى سپاس قديرى سزد كه بقدرت كامله لواى رفعت آدمى بر كافّۀ مخلوقات افراخته الخ . The copy is incomplete at the end; one or two leaves of the epilogue are missing. There seems to be also a small lacuna after fol. 11. Worm-eaten throughout. No. 3100, ff. 126, ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 71/2 in. by 43/4 in.

[IO Islamic 2271] Tarjuma-i-Khulâṣat-almafâkhir

<ul> <li>Tarjuma-i-Khulâṣat-almafâkhir.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 643 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 2271 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 643 Tarjuma-i-Khulâṣat-almafâkhir ( ترجمۀ خلاصة المفاخر ) . A Persian translation of the supplement to the preceding work, usually denoted by the simple name of تكملة ; see fol. 2a, l. 4, and fol. 228b, last line; the author of the Arabic original is the same ‘Abdallâh bin As’ad alyâfi’î alyamanî; comp. O. Loth, loc. cit., and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 66. It adds 200 stories to those in the روض الرياحين , most of which refer to the great Shaikh ‘Abd-alḳâdir (see above). The name of the Persian translator is not mentioned, but as the first of two other copies of the same work in the Bodleian Library (Bodleian Cat., Nos. 332 and 333) was made before A.H.910 (A.D. 1504), and as moreover the anonymous author mentions as his spiritual guide the great Shaikh Sayyid Jalâl-aldîn Makhdûm-i-Jahâniyân, who died A.H. 785 (A.D. 1384), the translation of this تكمله must have been made at least 200 years before that of the روض الرياحين . The Persian poet ‘Abdî made a poetical version of the same تكملة in A.H. 1051 (A.D.1641, 1642), entitled ترجمۀ تكملة ; see A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 307. Beginning: الحمد لله ربّ العالمين ...... ميگويد اضعف العباد أَصْلَحَ الله شانه كه چون كتاب خلاصة المفاخر فى مناقب غوث الملكوت قطب الصمد الخ . Dated the 14th of Ṣafar, A.H. 1089 (A.D. 1678, April 7). College of Fort William, 1825. No. 2271, ff. 228, written in different styles on Naskhî, mixed with Shikasta, by various hands, the oldest part, ll. 15, the more modern ones, ll. 17; very much damaged, but carefully mended; size, 85/8 in. by 51/2 in.

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[IO Islamic 1022] Majmâ-alauliyâ

<ul> <li> Majmâ-alauliyâ.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 646 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 1022 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul>   646 Another, but incomplete copy of the same. This copy, which seems to represent a later redaction of the work, also with a few erasures and numerous marginal corrections and additions, contains only the first half of the work, viz.: Muḳaddimah, on fol. 5b.; Bâb I, on fol.27a; II, on fol. 230a ; III, on fol.366a; IV, on fol. 406b; V, on fol. 453b; VI, on fol. 496a; VII (containing the index only), on fol. 553b. There is besides a large lacuna after fol. 382 in third bâb, corresponding to ff. 251b, last line – 257a, l. 15 in the preceding copy. Beginning of the preface, on fol. 1b; سپاس و ستايش مصوّريرا كه لوح عدم را به نگارش عكوس صفاتئ خود بياراست و عرصۀ وجود را بمجال اسماى ذاتئ خويش مزيّن ساخت الخ. The proper order of ff. 112-117 is: 112, 114, 113, 116, 115, 117. No date. No. 1022, ff. 554, ll. 17; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 10 in. by 51/2 in.

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[IO Islamic 1647] محفل الاصفيا و مجمع الاوليا

<ul> <li> مجمع الاوليا</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 645 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 1647 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 645 Majmâ-alauliyâ (مجمع الاوليا) . An almost complete copy of a hitherto unknown, extremely large and interesting biographical work, containing the lives of all the most renowned Saints, religious heroes, and great mystic Shaikhs, with its full title : محفل الاصفيا و مجمع الاوليا , usually styled مجمع الاوليا or even مجمع فيض , the latter title being a chronogram , fixing the date of the composition of this work in A.H. 1043 (A.D. 1633, 1634) ; see fol.3b, l. 3 sq. Only one leaf is missing in the beginning, the initial words لمعه ايست از لمعات حقيقت ….corresponding to fol . 2a, l. 3 in the following copy and the last few leaves are greatly injured and partly torn away. The work was compiled by ‘Alî Akbar Ḥusainî Ardastânî, see fol. 1a. l. 7 sq., and dedicated to the emperor Shâhjahân; see fol. 2b, first line sq. It is divided into a muḳaddimah, twelve bâbs (each preceded by a complete index), and a khâtimah, viz.: مقدّمه محتوى بر بيان اصطلاحات صوفيّه و مقامات عشره و بيان طوائف اقطاب و اوتاد و ابدال و ما يناسب ذلك ( On Ṣûfic terminology, the ten maḳâmât or stations, and the classes of Aḳṭâb or ‘poles,’ of Autâd or ‘props,’ of Abdâl or ‘lieutenants,’ etc.), on fol.3b. باب اوّل در ذكر خلفاء راشدين و ائمّۀ اثنا عشر و صحابۀ مهاجر و انصار و تابعين و تُبّع تابعين و برخى از اولاد حضرت سيّد كائنات ( The first four Khalîfs, the Imâms, the companions of the Prophet, the Tâbi’în or successors of the companions, the Tubba’ Tâbi’în or successors of the Tâbi’în, etc., beginning with Abûbakr and ending with Abû Ṭâhir Muḥammad bin Yaḥyâ bin Żafar, who was born A.H. 466=A.D. 1073, 1074, altogether 304 biographies ), on fol. 18a. باب دوم در ذكر خواجه حسن بصرى و من ينتسب اليه من المشايخ ( Khwâjah Ḥasan Baṣrî, whose death is fixed here in A.H. 120, or according to others in A.H. 106 (A.D. 738 or 724) , and the leading Saints of his order, ending with Muḥammad bin Fâdhab, altogether 143 biographies, of which three, however, are cancelled in the text), on fol. 146b. باب سيوم در ذكر سلطان ابراهيم ادهم و من ينتسب اليه من المشايخ (Sulṭân Ibrâhîm Adham, whose death is fixed here in A.H. 166 or 162 = A.D. 782, 783, or 778, 779, and the leading Saints of his order, ending with Abûbakr Yazdâniyâr Urmawî, the originally last Shaikh Abû Isḥâḳ Shâmî having been cancelled, altogether sixty-three biographies), on fol. 240a. باب چهارم در ذكر شيخ معروف كرخى و من ينتسب اليه من المشايخ (Shaikh Ma’rûf Karkhî, whose death is fixed here in A.H. 261 = A.D. 875, and the leading Saints of his order, ending with Sayyid Ibrâhîm Khûzistânî, altogether seventy-four biographies), on fol. 273b. باب پنجم در ذكر سلطان بايزيد بسطامى و من ينتسب اليه من المشايخ (Sulṭân Bâyazîd Bisṭâmî, who died A.H. 261 = A.D. 875, according to a less trustworthy source already A.H. 234, and the leading Saints of his order, ending with Sayyid Ḥaidar bin ‘Alî Âmulî, altogether fifty-four biographies), on fol. 305a. باب ششم در ذكر سيّد الطائفة شيخ جنيد بغدادى و من ينتسب اليه من المشايخ ( Shaikh Junaîd Baghdâdî , who died A.H. 297 = A.D. 909, 910, and the leading Saints of his order, ending with Shaikh Abû ‘Abdallâh, Ṭâḳî, altogether ninety biographies ), on fol. 335a. باب هفتم در ذكر سلسلۀ حضرات خواجها و مشايخ تركى (Shaikhs of the Naḳshbandî order and Turkish Shaikhs, from Khwâjah Yûsuf Hamadânî, whose death is fixed here in A.H. 555 =A.D. 1160, to Shaikh Muḥammad Ma’ṣûm, who was born A.H. 1007= A.D. 1598, 1599, and thirty-five years old at the time when the author wrote this part of his work, altogether 162 biographies), on fol. 374b. باب هشتم در ذكر مشايخ عصر غوث اعظم شاه محيى الدين شيخ عبدالقادر جيلانى (Shaikh Ghauth-i-a’żam Muḥyî-aldîn ‘Abd-alḳâdir Jîlânî, died A.H. 561 = A.D. 1166, his contemporaries and followers down to Shaikh Mûsâ bin Mâhîn, altogether sixty-five biographies), on fol. 453b. باب نهم در ذكر مشايخ سهرورديّه و كبرويّه و چشتيّه (Shaikhs of the Suhrawardî, Kubrawî, Ćishtî orders, from Shaikh Shihâb-aldîn Suhrawardî, who died A.H. 632 = A.D. 1234, 1235, to Khwâjah Muḥammad bin Aḥmad bin Muḥammad bin Yûsuf Ćishtî whose birth is fixed here in A.H. 507, and his death in A.H. 597 = A.D. 1113-1201, altogether sixty-four biographies), on fol. 508b. باب دهم در ذكر مشايخ دهلى و گجرات و غير آن از ممالك هندوستان (Shaikhs of Dihlî, Gujarât, and other parts of India, from Khwâjah Mu’în-aldîn Ḥasan Sijzî , who died A.H. 633, 6th of Rajab or , less correctly , Dhû-alḥijjah, A.D. 1236, March 16 or August 11, to Shaikh Jauhar Sirhindî, who died A.H. 1027=A.D. 1618, altogether 277 biographies), on fol. 592a. باب يازدهم در ذكر شعرا (Poets, beginning with Amîr Ḳâsim-i-Anwâr, who died A.H. 837 = A.D. 1433, 1434, and ending with Bâbâ Kamâl Khujandî; the last date is A.H. 835 = A.D. 1431, 1432, that of the death of Shaikh Abû-alwafâ , one of Khujandî’s Pupils , altogether thirty-six biographies, being a selection only of such as were great mystic Shaikhs at the same time ) , on fol. 756b. باب دوازدهم در ذكر نساء عارفات (Female Saints, from Râbi’ah ‘adawiyyah of Baṣrah to Bîbî Auliyâ, a contemporary of Sulṭân Muḥammad Tughluḳ, buried in Dihlî, altogether thirty-eight biographies), on fol. 814a. خاتمه در ذكر فضائل و مناقب اهل بيت طاهرين و خلفاء راشدين و شمّۀ از احوال خضر و الياس (On the excellent qualities and virtues of the house of ‘Alî and the first four Khalîfs, together with some discourses on Khiḍr and Ilyâs), on fol. 833a. The list of authorities, used by the author, is as follows (see fol. 3a, compared with and supplemented by the following copy, fol. 5a): فتوحات مكّيّه فصوص الحكم نصوص اصابه فى معرفة الصحابه نقش نصوص عوارف طبقات سلمى كشف المحجوب فصل الخطاب نفحات الانس حاشيۀ مولانا عبدالغفور لارى بر نفحات رشحات شرح لمعات تذكرة الاوليا تأريخ امام يافعى ملفوظات خواجه عبدالخالق غُجْدوانى مقامات حضرت خواجه بهاء الدين نقشبند ملفوظات مخدوم جهانيان سلسلة العارفين و تذكرة الصدّيقين جواهر الاسرار رسالۀ اميريّه رسالۀ عبهريّه مناقب مرتضوى ملفوظات شيخ شرف يحيى مُنْيرى اسرار المشايخ اسرار الاوليا جامع التواريخ تأريخ آئينۀ سكندرى اصطلاحات صوفيّه (left out in the following copy) مكتوبات حضرت شيخ احمد كابلى سرهندى اخبار الاخيار (also left out in the following copy ) كلمات الصادقين (again left out in the following copy ) ترجمۀ عوارف ترجمۀ فتوح الغيب رسالۀ امام قشيرى رسالۀ اعلام الهدى) رسالۀ امام الهدى: (in the following copy جامع الاصول (الوصول: (in the following copy كشف ثعلبى عين المعانى اربعين خدابادى شرح گلشن راز شرح تعرّف حلية الاوليا معجمة الكبير كشّاف صحيح مسلم صحيح بخارى حقائق سلمى تفسير قاضى بيضاوى كتاب الانساب حدائق الحقائق تاريخ امام بخارى تأريخ مشايخ صوفيّه مناقب السادات(left out in the following copy ) شرف النبوّة مشارق الانوار (left out in the following copy ) سير كبير جوامع الحكمة خلاصة السير حسن الآداب رسالۀ خواجه گرگ عيون المجالس كتاب الجواهر آثار نسرين درجة العلما (left out in the following copy) روضة العلما قصص بخارى غربب السير مناهج تهذيب الكامل كفاية شعبى دلائل النبوّة شواهد النبوّة دستور الحقائق تمهيد عين الحقيقة غنية الطالبين قوت القلوب مخزن الساعات لوائح شروح لامية ‘ This copy, which exhibits at the end as date only the 2nd of Rabî’-alawwal, A.H. 1043 (A.D. 1633, September 6 ), i.e. the date of the completion of the work itself, is undoubtedly in its principal parts the author’s own first sketch or, ‘brouillon,’ as the whole aspect of the MS. unmistakably proves. Almost in every page portions are struck out and either replaced by others on the margin or restored later on, which gives quite a unique value to the MS. There are besides numerous marginal corrections and additions. The actual number of biographies, according to our counting, is 1370; on fol.3a, first line, the author states that he intends to enumerate 1000 and -biographies (هزار و), carefully avoiding any exact statement. In the following copy this passage has been filled in, and 1511 is given as the proper number, which exceeds that in the present copy 141, but may very well be correct with regard to a later revised and enlarged edition, of which the following copy is, no doubt, an imperfect specimen. Rather peculiar are the chronological dates given in this work; they often entirely differ from those commonly fixed upon by standard authors. No. 1647, ff. 939, ll. 19; Nasta’lîḳ, by different hands; size, 125/8 in. by 61/4 in. <ul> <li>[ed note: <a href="https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84108880.html">Warren Hastings</a>]</li> </ul>

[IO Islamic 1878] Safînat-alauliyâ

<ul> <li> Safînat-alauliyâ.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 649 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 1878 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 649 The same. A very badly written copy, spoiled and damaged in many places. Dated the 20th of Rabî’-althânî, A.H. 1179 (A.D. 1765, October 6), by Faḍl-allâh, son of Ghulâm Mahdî ( sixth year of Shâh ‘Âlam’s reign). No. 1878, ff. 108, ll. 15-19; irregularly written, partly in careless Nasta’lîḳ, partly in Shikasta; size, 83/4 in. by 5 in.

[IO Islamic 1363] Safînat-alauliyâ

<ul> <li>  Safînat-alauliyâ.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 648 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 1363 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 648 Another copy of the same. This copy concludes on fol. 129a, and is dated the 12th of Dhû-alḥijjah, A.H. 1120 (A.D. 1709, February 22), by ‘Alâ-aldîn, known as Lâr Muḥammad bin ‘Alî Riḍâ. Ff. 130-134 are written by quite a different hand, and filled with some traditions in Arabic, beginning: قال على ابن ابى طالب رضى الله عنه و كرّم وجهه سمعت النبى الخ . The proper order of the leaves is: ff. I-89, 97-105, 90-96, 106-134. No. 1363, ff. 134, ll. 17 (except ff. 130-134, ll. 10); clear Nasta’lîḳ; size, 81/2 in. by 51/2 in.

[IO Islamic 645] Fâtiḥ-alḳulûb

<ul> <li> Fâtiḥ-alḳulûb.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 650 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 645 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 650 Fâtiḥ-alḳulûb ( فاتح القلوب ) . History of the life and wonderful deeds of the great Shaikh Mîr ‘Abdallâh ibn Mîr Mużaffar alḥusainî altirmidhî (who died A.H. 1035= A.D. 1626, according to the two chronograms on fol. 19a: زدنياى دنى قطب زمان رفت and روضۀ جاويد , a date also given in Beale’s Oriental Biogr. Dictionary, p. 6b, whereas, according to another chronogram on the same page, viz. شيخ زمانه بود , and the statement on fol. 18b, line 7, see also Rieu i. p. 154a, his death took place ten years sooner, in A.H. 1025 = A.D. 1616), by one of his disciple, divided into twelve bâbs, and beginning: الحمد لله ..... بعد از بيان توحيد و ثناى بارى عزّ اسمه و نعت سيّد المرسلين و خاتم النبييّن امير المؤمنين و امامان دين عليهم السّلام و مدح اصحاب مستطاب الخ. Mîr ‘Abdallâh Tirmidhî, with the takhalluṣ Waṣfî , was a clever calligrapher , who got from the emperor Akbar the honorary epithet of Mushkîn Ḳalam, and a good poet too, see Rieu, loc. cit., and Bodleian Catal., No. 1894. The last year that appears in this little work , mentioned as date of the death of one of the Shaikh’s great pupils, is A.H. 1054 (A.D. 1644, 1645), on fol. 31a, l . 15. This copy was finished the 23rd of Dhû-alḳa’dah, in the 20th year (either of Shâhjahân, which would be A.H. 1056= A.D. 1646, December 31, or more likely of ‘Âlamgir, A.H. 1087 = A.D. 1677, January 27). On fol.1b the work is simply styled: تأريخ مير عبدالله . No. 645, ff. 32, ll. 17; Nasta’lîḳ; worm-eaten; size, 88/8 in. by 43/4 in.

[IO Islamic 401] Tadhkirat-alshu'arâ

<ul> <li>Tadhkirat-alshu’arâ .</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 661 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 401 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 661 The same. No date. The sixth ṭabaḳah begins here, on fol. 201a (طبقۀ سادس ), with Kamâl Khujandî; the usual beginning ( viz. with Ni’mat-allâh Kûhistânî) is found here on fol. 206a. No. 401, ff. 304, ll. 16; legible, but very incorrect Nasta’lîḳ; ff. 1 and 2 supplied later; size, 93/4 in. by 53/4 in.

[IO Islamic 809] Tadhkirat-alshu'arâ

<ul> <li>Tadhkirat-alshu’arâ .</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 659 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 809 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 659 The same. This copy is likewise injured in many places, especially in the corners, and worm-eaten. It is dated the 5th of Rabi’-alawwal, in the 49th year (of ‘Âlamgîr? that would be A.H. 1117 = A.D. 1705, June 27). No. 809, ff. 290, ll. 17; careless and rude Nasta’lîḳ; only the first twenty-six leaves supplied by another, careful hand, on more modern paper; size, 85/8 in. by 47/8 in.

[IO Islamic 2539] Tadhkirat-alshu'arâ

<ul> <li>Tadhkirat-alshu’arâ .</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 660 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 2539 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 660 The same. An excellent copy, not dated. No. 2539, ff. 65-420, ll. 15; very clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; size, 101/2 in. by 73/8 in.

[IO Islamic 2337] Tadhkirat-alshu'arâ

<ul> <li>Tadhkirat-alshu’arâ .</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 658 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 2337 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 658 The same. This copy, considerably older than the preceding one, is somewhat damaged on the first pages. Dated the 8th of Dhû-alḥijjah, A.H. 1028 (A.D. 1619, Nov. 16). No. 2337, ff. 420, ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 61/8 in. by 35/8 in.

[IO Islamic 2730] Tadhkirat-alshu'arâ

<ul> <li>Tadhkirat-alshu’arâ .</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 657 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 2730 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 657 Another copy of the same. Another excellent copy of Daulatshâh’s tadhkirah dated the 15th of Muḥarram, A.H. 1095 (A.D. 1684, Jan. 3). Muḳaddimah, on fol. 10b. Ṭabaḳah I, on fol. 16b; II, on fol. 42a; III, on fol. 71a; IV, on fol. 102a; V, on fol. 136a; VI, on fol. 175b; VII, on fol. 216b. Khâtimah, on fol. 243b. Worm-eaten. The proper order of the leaves is: ff. 1-151, 154-209, 152, 153, 210-266. No. 2730, ff. 266, ll. 17; clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; size, 93/4 in. by 53/4 in.

[IO Islamic 1814] Rauḍat-alaulyâ

<ul> <li>Rauḍat-alaulyâ.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 655 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 1814 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 655 Rauḍat-alaulyâ ( روضة الاوليا ) . A short compendium or Unmûzaj on the great Saints of India, especially of the Dakhan, compiled by Ghulâm ‘Alî Âzâd alḥusainî alwâsiṭî albalgrâmî, the author of the famous tadhkiras مآثر الكرام , سرو آزاد , خزانۀ عامره , etc. (see further below, No . 682 sq.), in A.H. 1161 (A.D. 1748) , see fol. 22a , last line but two. It gives biographical accounts of ten great Shaikhs, the last of whom is the author himself, and is apparently the basis on which he wrote in A.H. 1166 (A.D. 1753) his larger works on the Shaikhs, learned men, and poets of Balgrâm and India in general. The first biography is that of Shaikh Burhân-aldîn Muḥammad bin Maḥmûd bin Nâṣir, commonly called Algharîb alhânsawî ( الغريب الهانسوى ) . Beginning: نحمدك يا من تقدّست ذاته عن شوائب الامكان و تجلّت صفاته فى مراتب الاكوان و نصلّى و نسلّم على حبيبك الخ . At the end of the short sketch of the author’s life (relating his various travels and his pilgrimage to Makkah and Madînah in A.H. 1150-52=A.D. 1737-1740) a ḳaṣîdah by the same is added: قصيده در بيان شجرۀ بزرگان روضۀ منوّره قدّس الله اسرارهم ‘ Beginning: زبان خامۀ مشكين كند بنام خدا بيان سلسلۀ اولياء روضه ادا No. 1814, ff. 1-23a, ll. 21; clear Nasta’lîḳ; size, 91/2 in. by 51/2 in.

[IO Islamic 3169] Kalimât-alshu'arâ

<ul> <li>Kalimât-alshu’arâ.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 671 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 3169 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 671 Another copy of the same. Beginning as in the preceding copy; title on fol. 3b, l. 5. The first biography, Ilâhî of Hamadân, begins on fol. 3b; the last, Yaḥyâ Kâshî, on fol. 126b, last line. No date. 12th-13th century of the Hijrah. No. 3169, ff. 132, ll. 12; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 73/8 in. by 43/4 in.

[IO Islamic 2565] Tadhkira-i-Naṣrâbâdî

<ul> <li>Tadhkira-i-Naṣrâbâdî.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 669 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 2565 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 669 Tadhkira-i-Naṣrâbâdî (تذكرۀ نصرابادى ). Biographies of contemporary poets by Muḥammad Ṭâhir Naṣrâbâdî (or Naṣîrâbâdî), who began to compile this work A.H. 1083 (A.D. 1672, 1673), and divided it into a muḳaddimah, five sections (صفّ ), and a khâtimah. Various copies contain additions up to A.H. 1089 (A.D. 1678), and even to A.H. 1092 (A.D. 1681), comp. Bodleian Catal., No. 373; Rieu i. p. 368; W.Pertsch, Berlin Catal., p. 616; A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 88-108, and Bland, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, ix. pp. 137-140. Muḳaddimah: Poetry of kings and princes, on fol. 5a. Section I: Poetry of the Amîrs, Khâns, and wazîrs of Îrân and Hindûstân, on fol. 9a, in three firḳas or classes. Section II: Poetry of the Sayyids, Najîbs, etc., on fol. 64a. Section III: Poetry of wise and learned men, calligraphers, faḳîrs, etc., on fol. 100b, in three firḳas. Section IV: Poetry of Professional poets in ‘Irâḳ, Khurâsân, Transoxania, and Hindûstân, on fol. 142b (the heading is forgotten here), in three firḳas. Section V: Poetry of relations of the author himself. The beginning of this section is not marked. The author’s own biography begins on fol. 320a, last line. Khâtimah, containing chronograms, logogriphs, riddles, etc., on fol. 328a. Beginning: سرسبزئ نهال خامه از طراوت الخ. No. 2565, ff. 376, ll. 17; careless Nasta’lîḳ; size, 101/8 in. by 57/8 in.

[IO Islamic 601] Tuḥfa-i-Sâmî

<ul> <li>Tuḥfa-i-Sâmî.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 666 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 601 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 666 Another copy of the same. This copy, transcribed by Bâḳî Muḥammad Ḥâfiż Nûr of Andakhud, but likewise not dated, is much shorter than the preceding one, and more like an abridgment of the original work, containing only 474 biographies. Beginning the same as in the preceding copy. No. 601, ff. 73, ll. 19; clear Nasta’lîḳ; size, 91/4 in. by 67/8 in.