Two Persian texts on Sufism

Description

Related Names

Majẕūb ʻAlī Shāh, Muḥammad Jaʻfar ibn Ṣafar, 1761 or 1762-1822 or 1823.
Muḥammad ʻAlī, Shah of Iran, 1872-1925.

Language(s)

Persian ; Arabic

Published

[Iran], [between 1800 and 1899]

Subjects

Sufism.
Manuscripts, Persian.
Manuscripts, Persian > Manuscripts, Persian / [0]: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85080754 / North Carolina > Manuscripts, Persian / [0]: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85080754 / North Carolina / Chapel Hill.
Sufism.
North Carolina > North Carolina / Chapel Hill.
Blind stamped bindings.
nastaʻliq.
manuscripts (documents) > manuscripts (documents) / [0]: https://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300028569 / Iran > manuscripts (documents) / [0]: https://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300028569 / Iran / [0]: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039880-781 / nineteenth century (dates CE).

Summary

Two texts on Sufism; the second consists of 125 short kalimah (although according to Āghā Buzurg there are only 100)

Note

Origin: 19th century
Physical description: 19 lines per page; written in nastaʻlīq script in black on machine-made paper. Rubrication in red; most Arabic phrases and passages in violet. Catchwords; a few marginal annotations; light staining. Disbound in brown leather folder with blind-stamped mandorla, pendants, and border rule; pink paper doublures. Folios 73-78 detached from text block. On folio 1a: "rivāyat" from the Prophet and list of letters and corresponding numbers (not abjad). In very good condition
Title of text 1 from folio 3a; title of text 2 from Āghā Buzurg. Compilation title supplied by cataloger
Manuscript codex
Also available via the World Wide Web.
Previously owned by a grandson of Muḥammad ʻAlī Shāh Qājār; presumably the manuscript was formerly a part of Muḥammad ʻAlī's library

Physical Description

78 leaves : paper ; 176 x 110 (128 x 65) mm

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