[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. 48b. 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. 2b), 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, 77/8 in. by 5 in.