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Biography

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Or Ms 243: رشحات عين الحيات Rashaḥāt-i ‘ayn al-ḥayāt, undated (original text compiled 17th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 243
Scope and Contents

A well-known collection of biographies of spiritual guides of the Naqshbandī order and principally of Khwājah Naṣīr al-Dīn ‘Ubayd- Allāh, by his disciple Mawlānā Fakhr al-Dīn ‘Alī b. al-Ḥusayn al-Wā‘iz al-Kāshifī, better known as "Sāfī" (d. 939 A.H., 1532 C.E.).

Dates: undated (original text compiled 17th cent. C.E.)

Or Ms 245: تأريخ بابا نصيب Taʼrīkh-i Bābā Naṣīb, undated

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Identifier: Or Ms 245
Scope and Contents

This is a work on history by Bābā Naṣīb, who was a celebrated Sufi saint of Kashmīr (d.1047 A.H., 1637 C.E.). It is also known as the "Rīshī-nāmah" or the "Darvīsh-nāmah-yi Mullā Naṣīb".

Dates: undated
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Or Ms 246: تواريخ مير سيد شريف "راقم" ''Tawārīkh-i Mīr Sayyid Sharīf" Rāqim, 1145 A.H., 1732 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 246
Scope and Contents

A chronological account of some of the kings, learned and holy men who flourished, 736-1045 A.H. (1335-1635 C.E.), during the period of Mughal sovereignty in Central Asia, Persia, and India.

Dates: 1145 A.H.; 1732 C.E.

Or Ms 408: تأريخ تيموری Taʼrīkh-i Tīmūrī, 1004 A.H., 1596 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 408
Scope and Contents

This is an anonymous abridgement of the Ẓafar-nāmah by Mawlānā Sharaf al-Dīn ‘Alī Yazdī (d. 858 A.H.,1454 C.E.). It is a biography of the great conqueror Tīmūr (Tamerlane) from his birth, 736 A.H., 1336 C.E., to his death, 807 A.H.,1405 C.E..


The section of the manuscript where the date (1004 A.H.) appears is injured, it is bearly legible.

Dates: 1004 A.H.; 1596 C.E.