Volume 2

Catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the India Office.

  • Great Britain. India Office. Library
Date:
[between 1920 and 1929?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the India Office. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1253 Foll. 122-152; 62 x 44 in.; ll. 17; neat and clear nasta‘liq; worm-eaten, especially towards the end; foll. 122 and 127 have about two lines torn away at the bottom; water-stained; 16th century. | DELHI 310d] A fragment, foliated in arabic numerals 116-22 and 131-54, of a work on Sifi discipline. This copy lacks both beginning and end, and eight leaves have been lost after fol. 128. The author mentions two works of his own, منظوم العرفان فى خلق الانسان‎ (fol. 1286) and فشرب الرواخ‎ (fol. 1504). Among the 50115 mentioned are Ibn Masri (fol. 130@), Ibn Najid (fol. 1312), Abt ‘Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Khafif, who is called شيخنا وسيدنا‎ (fol. 1336: died in 331, seé Rieu, Pers.Car7205), Fibd als Rahim al-Istakhri (fol. 1426), Aba Najib ai-Suhrawardi (fol. 1454: died in 562/1167). Of the last-named the author relates a personal anecdote; Suhrawardi was the instructor of Bagqli (see Mafahkat al-uns 288), so that it seems highly probable that Baqli is the author of the present work. The work, or at least this part of it, is not divided into chapters or sections. Beginning: ا(لحديث والفقه واصوله وما سوىقر ذلك من علوم‎ النجوم والاكسير والعروض' والشعر وغيره فيو حجاب‎ بين العبى والرب تعالى حاصة محالات واغلوطات‎ ONS الزذى عرو [ ......] له عجيبة من المشتاقين‎ الراجيت‎ [Jal ل ذلك فرو كن‎ OU Two leaves follow (foll. 153-4), numbered consecutively in arabic numerals 155-6, but written on different paper and by a different nasta‘liq hand. It seems most probable that these leaves are a fragment of another work, also on Sifism. Beginning: وجل واعمى الناس معرفه حاله‎ je ay) ...]فا‎ End: 2 وابصر الناس بالدواء‎ يرى‎ YD ومن يطلع عليه الشمس بشعاءبا كيف‎ جميع طرق الحق والسالك يرى بنور الحق والمجذوب‎ VOLeiI Gall‏ هذا Siglo (pila!‏ ,الله .عليه وآلها:وسلمز وختم الكتاب باسمه الشريف الميمون المبارك رحم الله مصنفه ومولفه فى نظره (Sed!‏ والمعرفة بجميع 007 كن الله شراب الزلفى 'من الحوضنالاسنئ Koon! 5‏ لله = There is a reference on fol. 1540 to Shaikh al-‘Iraq Akmal al-Din, who is described as a contemporary of the author. 1254 Foll. 249; 113 x 63 in.; ll. 23; regular nasta‘liq; rubrications; copyist, ‘Aziz al-Din; 18th cen- tury. [DELHI 1791] nes الحما‎ 052 Khalisah al-haqa’iq. A compendium of Sufi ethics, by Abi ’1-Oasim Mahmid ibn Ahmad al-Fariyabi (d. ,ه6507/1220‎ sée H. Kite pete work, which was completed in 597/1200, 5 in 50 chapters, which are fully enumerated by Ahlwardt (vir 660-1), and is based on 74 books by various authors, detailed by al-Fariyabi in an appendix to the present work (see Loth 171). The work is in this copy called ,خلاصة الحقائق‎ both on the front fly-leaf and in the body of the text.(cf. Loth ityhevinhy ae Beginning: rood!‏ لله الذى براء [s2c]‏ كل حى ثم دعاه... يقول العبى المذنب ابو القاسشم محمود بن Deel‏ بن ابي الحسين الفاريابى . الكتاب خلاصة [ع22؟] الحقايق لما فيه من اساليب الدقايق الح Anno ... هذا‎ . The chapters are enumerated in the pre- face. الباب lo‏ فى العقل والعقلاء 6 Fol.‏ cll wl‏ ذى العلم والعلاماء والحكمة والحكماء Fol. 84‏ NW) OW!‏ فى AAS‏ الاخلاص والايمان والتوحديد والمعرفة والعارف 106 Fol.‏
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