[IO Islamic 661] History of Shaikh 'Abd-alḳâdir Jilânî

• History
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1800 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 661 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1800

A history of the life and miracles of the same great Shaikh ‘Abd-alḳâdir Jilânî, without a special title, introduced by a muḳaddimah, of a more general purport, discussing the mystical meaning of words like ولايت, كرامت, معجزه, etc., and other Ṣûfic topics. The biography of the Shaikh does not begin before fol. 48^b. The author of this work is not mentioned anywhere; it is dedicated to Shâh Shujâ’ Bahâdur (of the Mużaffarî dynasty in Shîrâz, who reigned from A.H. 760 to A.H. 786=A.D. 1359-1384, see fol. 2^b), and begins: سزاوار حمد و ثنا پادشاهيست جلّ جلاله كه بحكمت كامله نوع انسانى را بر جميع موجودات الخ.

Dated in the middle of Rabî’-alawwal, A.H. 1052 (A.D. 1642, middle of June).

No. 661, ff. 214, ll. 13; Nasta’lîḳ; many marginal and interlinear corrections and explanations; small injuries on many leaves; size, 7^7/8 in. by 5 in.