[IO Islamic 627] فصل الخطاب

Faṣl-alkhiṭâb

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1855 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 627 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1855

Faṣl-alkhiṭâb (فصل الخطاب).

An encyclopaedia of Ṣûfic lore, containing extracts from the works of the greatest Persian and Arabic mystics, by Muḥammad bin Muḥammad bin Maḥmûd alḥâfiżî albukhârî, commonly known as Khwâjah Muḥammad Pârsâ, who died A.H. 822 (A.D. 1420). According to Ḥ. Khalfa iv. p. 422, No. 9058, the full title of this work is فصل الخطاب فى المحاضرات ; according to G. Flügel iii.p. 421, فصل الخطاب لوصل الاحباب , comp. also Rieu ii. p. 863b, and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 294. The interesting documents on mysticism, contained therein, are fully described by Flügel, loc. cit.

Beginning:الحمد لله الدّالّ لخلقه على وحدانيّته باعلامه و آياته المتعرّف الى اوليائه الخ.

Khwâjah Muḥammad Pârsâ is besides the author of the انفاس قدسيّه , also styled رسالة القدسيّة النقشبنديّة containing the sayings of Shaikh Bahâ-aldîn Naḳshband (who died A.H. 791=A.D. 1389, see No. 1851 above, and comp. Nos. 1920, 1; 1923, 2, 3 and 9 below), which were collected by him and from which an extract was made by Jâmî in his سخنان خواجه پارسا or الحاشية القدسيّة (see col. 764, No.14, in this Cat., and Bodleian Cat., No. 1266); and of the رساله در بيان نيّتها , see W.Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 78, No. 3 ; comp. also No. 1923, 6 below.

This copy is dated the 5th of Jumâdâ-alâkhar, A.H. 909 (A.D. 1503, Nov. 25), by Khwâjah Muḥammad bin Malik Muḥammad Ṣûfî alandigânî (الاندگانى, i.e. الاندجانى, of Andijân). Collated, with occasional margin glosses and additions.

No.627, ff. 243, ll. 25; Naskhî; size, 95/8 in. by 53/4 in.