Sufism
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia
Or Ms 29: اخوان الصفا Ikhwān al-ṣafā, 1227 A.H., 1812 C.E.
The first twenty of the philosophical treatises of the Ikhwan al-ṣafa (Brethren of Purity) on the dispute between the animals and man. Printed volume.
Or Ms 69: دبستان مذاهب Dabistān-i maẕāhib, 1215 A.H., 1800 C.E.
An exposition of the religious creeds and philosophical systems of the East. The author's name does not appear, but the work is probably attributable to Mubād-Shāh, who completed it shortly after 1063 A.H. (1653 C.E.). Comprising fifteen sections with numerous subsections, it gives a fair insight into the beliefs of the Parsis, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, Christians, Muslims, Muwaḥḥids (unitarians), Philosophers, Sufis (theosophists), and several others.
Or Ms 242: تکملهٔ يافعی Takmilah-yi Yāfi‘ī, undated (original text compiled 14th cent. C.E.)
A Persian translation of the original Arabic titled Khulāṣat al-Mafākhir fī Manāqib al-Shaykh ‘Abd al-Qādir by Shaykh ‘Abd-Allāh Yāfi‘ī (d. 768 A.H., 1366 C.E.). It contains two hundred and sixteen stories which are primarily about the celebrated Sufi saint and eponymous founder of the Qādirī Ṭarīqah, Shaykh ‘Abd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī (d. 561 A.H., 1166 C.E.).
Frontispiece illuminated with gold.
Or Ms 243: رشحات عين الحيات Rashaḥāt-i ‘ayn al-ḥayāt, undated (original text compiled 17th cent. C.E.)
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.).
Or Ms 245: تأريخ بابا نصيب Taʼrīkh-i Bābā Naṣīb, undated
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".
Or Ms 298: شاه وگدا Shāh-u Gadā, undated copy (original text composed 16th cent. C.E.)
A mystical poem by Badr al-Dīn Astarābādī, poetically styled "Hilālī" (d. circa 936 A.H., 1530 C.E.).
The poem is followed by an incomplete essay in prose containing advice to men, by an unknown person.
Or Ms 405: کتاب مناهج التّوصّل في مباهج التّرسّل Kitāb manāhij al-tawaṣṣul fī mabāhij al-tarassul, undated
An incomplete copy of the treatise on the Sufi styles of letter writing by ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Muḥammad bin ‘Alī bin Aḥmad al-Ḥanafī al-Bisṭāmī (d. 858 A.H., 1454 C.E.).
Or Ms 418: کشف اللّغات والاصطلاحات Kashf al-lughāt wa al-iṣṭilāḥāt, undated (original text compiled 16th Cent. C.E.)
A famous Persian dictionary, chiefly for the purpose of explaining the terminology of the Sufis, by ‘Abd al-Raḥīm bin Aḥmad Sūr, of Bihar, who flourished about 950 A.H., 1543 C.E.
Written by various hands. See A Descriptive Catalogue of the Arabic and Persian Manuscripts in Edinburgh University Library by Mohammad Hukk et al. (1925) for details.