Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
[Miscellany in Urdu, Arabic and Persian].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 473
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcn296xc117
Publisher
[18--?]
Language
Urdu
Date Created
1800-1899
Extent
221 leaves : paper ; 198 x 152 mm. bound to 199 x 156 mm.
Source Acquisition
Purchase; 2002/7/24 (2003-15).
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 5a-82a: Tafsīr Sūrat Yūsuf. In poetic form; Koranic verses are in red. Copied by Shaykh ʻUthmān (fol. 82a). Urdu.
2. fol. 83b-125a: Hādhā al-kitāb Talqīn al-hudá risālah ilá al-muttaqīn fī bayān al-khilāfah wa-al-bayʻat al-awliyāʼ [sic]. A treatise in poetic form on the disciple accepting his master. Urdu.
3. fol. 129b-140a: Treatise on how to greet the Prophet Muhammad and his followers. Arabic.
4. fol. 146b-152a: Two poems by Ghamgīn on choosing names for newly born children in accordance with the days they are born. Urdu.
5. fol. 152b-156a: Hādhā al-Duʻāʼ al-Jaljalūtīyah yuqraʼu ḥizban wa-yuktabu ḥizban. Prayer in Arabic verse.
6. fol. 161a-174a: Irshād nāmah / Burhān al-Dīn Jānam of Bijapur. A treatise on Sufism. Persian.
7. fol. 174b-175a: Lineage of Sufis extending back to the time of the Prophet Muhammad and details of other sects. Persian.
8. fol. 177b-187a: Īn risālah dar bayān-i wujūdīyah / Shaikh Farid-uddin Ganj-i Shakar. A Sufi treatise on existence. Persian.
9. fol. 188a-194b: Shikār nāmah / K̲h̲āja Banda Navāz Gīsūdarāz. A Sufi treatise on attaining salvation. Persian and Urdu.
10. fol. 197a-197b: Two hadiths in Arabic with Persian translation.
11. fol. 198a-199a: Treatise about ʻAlī b. Abī Ṭālib in Persian.
12. fol. 199b-213b: [Tāj al-ʻaqāʼid-i ahl-i tasannun] / Shaykh Rashīd al-Dīn Chishtī. Treatise on the beliefs of Sunnis. Urdu.
13. fol. 214b-217a: Didactic poem in Urdu.
14. fol. 217b: Extract in Arabic.
Notes
Physical description: Written in naskhi/nastaʻliq scripts in black on a variety of white and tinted European unglazed papers. Rubrication and catchwords; some vocalization, particularly of Arabic texts.
Binding Note
Full brown leather with gold stamped mandorla, corner decorations, and fillets; spine broken.

Discovery Information

Subject
Muḥammad Prophet -632
محمد، نبي
ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib Caliph approximately 600-661
علي بن ابي طالب
Qurʼan Sūrat Yūsuf—Commentaries
Sufism
Sufis—Genealogy
Names, Personal—Islamic
Islam—Prayers and devotions
Islam—Doctrines
Islamic etiquette
Hadith—Texts
Urdu poetry

Physical Characteristics

File Count
452

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
IIIF Manifest URL

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