Volume 2

Catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the India Office.

  • Great Britain. India Office. Library.
Date:
[between 1920 and 1929?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the India Office. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1402 Foll- 157; 744% in.; ll. 11; fine naskhi, fully vocalised as far as fol. 1222: rubrications; margins ruled in red and black; worm-eaten; 18th, century. [DELHI 1885] Yanabi‘ al-hikam. للا A mystical miscellany, being a collection of thoughts on various matters written down by Sa‘id al-Din Abia ’Il-Mahdi. Con- cerning this author nothing further appears to be known: this work is however partly autobiographical, and the author tells us that he wrote this book at Delhi. He men- tions (fol. 83@) as his Shaikh Baha’ al-Din Muhammad ibn al-Husain al-‘Amuli (d. 1030/1621, see Brockelmann 11 414- 15), to whose work الكشكول‎ he particularly refers. He quotes (fol. 76a) from the رسلالة العصر‎ whose author (‘Ali Khan ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad Ma‘sim, 0. 1104/1692, see Brockelmann 11 421) he describes as a con- temporary of his own. It is therefore possible to fix as Abt ’Il-Mahdi’s foruz¢t the year 1070/1660. This copy is incomplete at the end. Beginning: مَنَورِ الأَنْوَارٍ في الجبات. . . وبعد فيقول‎ a الشكن‎ بحبلٍ ل 0 المبدى ل‎ SOMA كه‎ ١ i} >< ow‏ ب ale‏ وآلذين. oe‏ لما قرعت من اعتكافى واعتزالن aged S87‏ الروح الح The title is given on fol. 3a. The fol- lowing main divisions occur (it is probable that others should fall after fol. 88, but these the copyist has omitted): Fol. 44 تقرمة‎ القول فى حقيقة النبوة 176 Fol.‏ Fol. 224 AAD واقول فى سبب معاودة نشر‎ Fol. 2 لامعة‎ Fol. 295 ait) denis Fol. 44a ساطعة‎ Fol. 6 ساطعة‎ Fol. 52 تنظير‎ Fol. 464 توصيف‎ 187 Fol. 514 ساطعة‎ Fol. 494 ساطعة‎ Fol. 57a الينبوع الاول‎ Fol. 552 day Fol. 734 ساطعة‎ Fol. 59a لائحة‎ الينبوع الثانى 885 Fol.‏ The author mentions another work of his (fol. 50a) entitled سفينة الانوار‎ . Foll. 81 d— 886 contain a long notice, and quotations from the works, of Sadr al-Din Muham- mad al-Shirazi (d. 903/1497, see Brockel- mann 11 204): a list of his books is given on foll. 85 6-86 ». End: .[ الذين لم يوذن‎ Go‏ برضائهم والغائبون عن انفسهم والمباينون لابنا ..إذن لاخوانهم ولم يرجعوا الى سيور No other copy appears to be recorded. Not in H. Kh. 1403 Foll. 164; 8% x 54 in.; ll. 11; large, fine naskhi; rubrications: margins ruled in red, gold and blue; illuminated ‘unwan on fol. 16; somewhat worm-eaten; 18th century. | DELHI 1780] Tahlil mu‘dilat Ibn al-‘Arabi. An excellent copy of a work explaining difficulties which occur in the writings of Ibn [al-]‘Arabi (especially (قصوص الحكم‎ and defending that famous theosophist against the strictures of the orthodox theologians. The author of this work (see fol. 1a) is Amr Allah ibn Munir Allah al-Bahari, who informs us (fol. 2@) that he had written another workentitled اشعة ربانية فى تزويق وحدة‎ الوجود‎ : the present book is dedicated (fol. 2) to Khandauran Bahadur Samsam al-Dau- lah, who was Amir al-umarda’ at the court of the Moghul emperor Muhammad Shah, and was killed in the year 1151/1738 (see Rieu, Catalogue of Persian MSS. in the 24-2