[IO Islamic 110] Treatises

Treatises This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1849 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 110 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 1849 Two mystical treatises, a large and a very small one, the latter of which is styled ارشاد السّالكين و برهان العارفين and composed by the same Aḥmad bin Yaḥyâ Munyarî; whether the first is likewise from his pen, is impossible to state, as no indication whatever is given as to its authorship, but it is highly probable. Beginning of the first risâlah, on fol. 299b:الله لا اله الاّ هو و درود بيحدّ بر آن ظهور كه شهود ذات و مقصود صفات است و بر آل و اصحاب و پيران او باد׳ بعد از آن كلمۀ چند كه از الهامات است نه از عقليّات الخ. A bait of Jalâl-aldin Rûmi (شمس الدّين تبريز) is quoted on fol. 308b. Beginning of the second risâlah, on fol. 417a: رسالۀ ارشاد السّالكين و برهان العارفين مخدوم جهان شيخ شرف الحقّ شرف الدّين احمد (بن) يحيى منيرى قدّس الله روحه ׳ الحمد لله ربّ العالمين كه موجود نيست مگر وى و درود بر رسول كه مقصود نيست مگر وى الخ. No.110, ff. 299-421, ll. 11; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 6½ in. by 3½ n.