[IO Islamic 1234] مكاتبات شيخ عبدالرّزّاق كاشى با شيخ علاء الدّوله سمنانى

Mukâtabât-i-Shaikh ‘Abd-alrazzâḳ Kâshî bâ Shaikh ‘Alâ-aldaulah Simnânî 

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1835 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 1234 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1835

Mukâtabât-i-Shaikh ‘Abd-alrazzâḳ Kâshî bâ Shaikh ‘Alâ-aldaulah Simnânî (مكاتبات شيخ عبدالرّزّاق كاشى با شيخ علاء الدّوله سمنانى ).

Correspondence on several points of mystic theosophy, as for instance, the توحيد, etc., between Shaikh Kamâl-aldîn ‘Abd-alrazzâḳ of Kâshân (who was a pupil of Shaikh Nûr-aldin bin ‘Abd-alṣamad Naṭanzî and died A.H. 730=A.D. 1329, 1330, see Haft Iḳlîm, No. 932, col. 445 in this Cat., where a list of his most prominent Arabic works is given, compare also Rieu ii. p. 832a, No. VI, where a Persian paraphrase of his اصطلاحات الصّوفيّة is noticed, G. Flügel iii. p. 371, and i. p. 463; O. Loth, Arabic Cat., p. 164a; Ḥ. Khalfa i. p. 325, etc.) and Shaikh Rukn-aldîn ‘Alâ-aldaulah of Simnân (who died the 22nd of Rajab, A.H. 736=A.D. 1336, March 6, see Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 132, coll. 288 and 289 in this Cat., and Haft Iḳlîm, No. 1138, ib., col. 463). It consists of two letters only, the first containing ‘Abd-alrazzâḳ’s questions, the second ‘Alâ-aldaulah’s answer.

Beginning:شيخ كمال الدّين عبدالرّزّاق كاشى رحمه اللّه وى مريد شيخ نور الدّين عبدالصّد نطنزيست الخ.

Dated by Abû Ṭâlib alḥusainî at Murshidâbâd the 25th of Rabî’-alawwal, A.H. 1180 (A.D. 1766, Aug. 31).

No. 1234, ff. 311a-316b, ll. 16; Naskhî, mixed with Shikasta; size, 8 in. by 43/8 in.