Item Summary

A collection of six texts on Sufism in Persian and Arabic.

Descriptive Information

Title
[Collection of six Sufi texts].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 20W-24W
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/2j62s745s
Publisher
[between 18--? and 1817]
Language
Persian
Date Created
1800-1817
Format
Manuscript
Extent
100 leaves : paper ; 258 x 150 (177-202 x 85-100) mm. bound to 260 x 150 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Widgery, Cambridge, 1925.
Source Acquisition
Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.
References
Hitti, P. et al. Descriptive catalog, 1985, 2012.
Moghadam, M. et al. Garrett coll., 101, 108, 111.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. 20W, fol. 1b-9b: [Treatise on the lawfulness of samāʻ]. In Arabic.
2. 21W, fol. 14b-47a: Ḥasanāt al-ʻārifīn / Dārā Shikūh. In Persian; year of compilation is given as 1062H (1651 or 2) (fol. 14b).
3. 22W, fol. 48b-66b: Lavāyiḥ / Jāmī. In Persian. In Persian; dated Jumādá al-Thānī 1232H (April-May 1817) (fol. 66b).
4. 23W, fol. 67a-74b: Ṣulḥ-i kull / Khūb Muḥammad Chishtī. In Persian; composed in 1016H (1607 or 8) and dated Ramaḍān 1232H (July-August 1817) (fol. 74b).
5. 23W, fol. 75b-85a: Risālah / Muḥammad Bāqī Billāh. In Persian; dated Ramaḍān 1232H (July-August 1817) (fol. 85a).
6. 24W, fol. 86b-98b: Ayyuhā al-walad / al-Ghazzālī. In Arabic; dated Ramaḍān 1232H (July-August 1817) (fol. 98b). Followed by a short prayer in Arabic and Persian on fol. 99a.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Physical description: 15-19 lines per page; written in black by different hands on brown Arabic glazed, laid paper. Text 1 written in naskhi; texts 2-6 written in nastaʻliq. Catchwords and rubrication; a few marginal notes. Some insect damage. List of texts on fol. 1a and on label on front cover. Numbers 20-24 in Western numerals listed on label on back cover. Fol. 10a-14a, 47b-48a, 75a, 85b-86a, 99b-100 are either blank or contain title information by a later hand.
Text 1 incipit: بسم الله ... الحمد لله الذي خص الاولىاء بحسن الاستماع
Text 2 incipit: بسم الله ... احدى راست حمد بىحد که حمد و حامد و محمود اوست و حمدى راست
Text 3 incipit: بسم الله ... رب وفقنا للتكميل والتميم لا احصى ثناء عليك كيف وكل ثنائي يعود اليك
Text 4 incipit: بسم الله ... حمد جلىلى را که بجمىع محامد محمد است و صلوات بر انسان کامل که در مرتبه جامع محمد است
Text 5 incipit: بسم الله ... الحمد لله الحمد لله که حقىقت از آفتاب روشن تر است
Text 6 incipit (after introduction): بسم الله ... ايها الولد العزيز المحب اطال الله بقاءك لطاعته
Binding Note
Full burgundy leather binding with gilt-stamped fillets.

Discovery Information

Subject
Sufi chants
Sufism—Early works to 1800
Religious life—Islam—Early works to 1800
Muslims—Conduct of life—Early works to 1800
Islamic ethics—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
105

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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