[IO Islamic 1426] Naḳshbandî Order

Naḳshbandî order.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1426 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 636 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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A very similar work on the Naḳshbandî order, compiled A.H. 947 = A.D. 1540, 1541 (see fol. 1b, last line), by Abû al-muḥsin Muḥammad Bâḳir bin Muḥammad ‘Alî, without any special title (on fol. 1a it is styled تأريخ غريبه ), in a muḳaddimah, four maḳṣads, and a khâtimah. It differs from the Rashaḥât only in so far, as the biography of the founder of the order, Bahâ-aldîn Muḥammad bin Muḥammad Naḳshband, occupies here the same space as that of ‘Ubaid-allâh Aḥrâr, whose life is the principal theme of the Rashaḥât.

Beginning: الحمد لله ربّ العالمين الذى رفع اعلام الشريعة بميامن الخ. .

Muḳaddimah. Introduction to the history of the Naḳshbandî order, on fol.2b.

Maḳṣad I. Shaikhs prior to Bahâ-aldîn, from the prophet and ‘Alî to Naḳshband himself, on fol. 9a.

Maḳṣad II, in three ḳisms. Life, deeds, sayings, and miracles of Bahâ-aldîn Naḳshband (A.H. 718-791 = A.D. 1318-1389), on fol. 35a.

Maḳṣad III. Shaikhs who lived from Bahâ-aldîn’s time to that of ‘Ubaid-allâh Aḥrâr, on fol. 119b.

Maḳṣad IV. Life, deeds, sayings, and miracles of Khawâjah ’Ubaid-allâh (A.H. 806-895 = A.D. 1404-1490), on fol. 196a, in three marṣads and a khâtimah, the subdivisions quite identical with that in the Rashaḥât.

No date. Tenth century.

No. 1426, ff. 227, ll. 19; good Nasta’lîḳ; size, 103/8 in. by 63/8 in.