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Bibliothèque Nationale de France

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Manuscrits Persans

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Work 1: Risālah-’i khliṣ khāliṣah al-ḥaqā’iq (Badakhshānī, ʻAlī ibn Maḥmūd, active 15th century-16th century)

LOC subject headings

Sufism

Cabala (Early works to 1800)

Author

Badakhshānī, ʻAlī ibn Maḥmūd, active 15th century-16th century

بدخشاني، علي بن محمو

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Badakhshani, Ali ibn Maḥmud, active 15th century-16th century (authorised)

Ali ibn Maḥmud al-Badakhshani, active 15th century-16th century (variant)

Badakhshan, Ali ibn Maḥmud, active 15th century-16th century (variant)

Badakhshani, Ali ibn Maḥmud, 15th/16th cent (variant)

RabidĐ, Ali ibn Maḥmud, active 15th century-16th century (variant)

RaơidĐ, Ali ibn Maḥmud, active 15th century-16th century (variant)

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Title

Risālah-’i khliṣ khāliṣah al-ḥaqā’iq

رسالۀ اخلص خالصة الحقائق

Notes

A summary, in Arabic, of the requirement for the religious life and Sufism originally compossed in 597 AH [1200-1201 CE] by Abū al-Qāsim ʻImād al-Dīn Aḥmad al-Fārabī‎, d. 607 / 1210-11, ابو القاسم عماد الدین احمد الفاربی under the title Khāliṣah al-ḥaqā’iq (خالصة الحقائق)

This work is dated 1086 AH [1675-1676 CE]

Main language of text

Arabic

Foliation

ff. 2-47

Bibliography

Catalogue

Blochet, Edgar. Catalogue des manuscrits persans. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1905-34, 150.

Work 2: Risālah-’i mīr al-‘abād ilá al-maʻād (Abū al-Mafākhir Muḥammad Manṣūr)

LOC subject headings

Sufism

Author

Abū al-Mafākhir Muḥammad Manṣūr

ابو المفاخر محمد منصور

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Abū al-Mafākhir Muḥammad Manṣūr , fl. 15th century (authorised)

ابو المفاخر محمد منصور (variant)

Title

Risālah-’i mīr al-‘abād ilá al-maʻād

رسالۀ میر العباد الی المعاد

Notes

A Persian poem about Sufi mysticism accompanied by a commentary in prose

Main language of text

Persian

Foliation

ff. 47-122

Bibliography

Catalogue

Blochet, Edgar. Catalogue des manuscrits persans. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1905-34, 149.

Work 3: Risālah-’i jām khūb farjām (Tāj al-Dīn al-Hamadānī)

LOC subject headings

Sufism

Author

Tāj al-Dīn al-Hamadānī

تاج الدين الهمدانی

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Tāj al-Dīn al-Hamadānī (authorised)

تاج الدين الهمدانی (variant)

Title

Risālah-’i jām khūb farjām

رسالۀ جام خوب فرجام

Notes

A treatise on metaphysic about the nature of men and the angels, the microcosmos and the macrocosos

Main language of text

Persian

Foliation

ff. 123-154

Bibliography

Catalogue

Blochet, Edgar. Catalogue des manuscrits persans. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1905-34, 150.

Work 4: Risālah-‘i Intikhāb-i ma‘ārif (Anonymous)

LOC subject headings

Sufism

Masnavis, Persian

Author

Anonymous

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Anonymous (authorised)

Title

Risālah-‘i Intikhāb-i ma‘ārif

رسالۀ انتخاب معارف

Notes

Extracts of the mas̲navī (مثنوی) of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273, together with an introduction in prose

Main language of text

Persian

Foliation

ff. 155-197

Bibliography

Catalogue

Blochet, Edgar. Catalogue des manuscrits persans. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1905-34, 149.

Work 5: Risālah-’i Anīs (Āmir Qāsim, fl. not after 1448)

LOC subject headings

Sufism

Author

Āmir Qāsim, fl. not after 1448

عامر قاسم

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Emir Kazim

ʻĀmir Qāsim , fl. not after 1448 (authorised)

Emir Kazim (variant)

عامر قاسم (variant)

Title

Risālah-’i Anīs

رسالۀ انیس

Notes

A mystical poem in mas̲navī style with a commentary in prose

Main language of text

Persian

Foliation

ff. 198-211

Bibliography

Catalogue

Blochet, Edgar. Catalogue des manuscrits persans. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1905-34, 150.

Work 6: Mas̲navī-i Maulānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Anonymous)

LOC subject headings

Masnavis, Persian

Sufism

Author

Anonymous

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Anonymous (authorised)

Title

Mas̲navī-i Maulānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī

مثنوی مولانا جلال الدين رومی

Notes

A history, explained allegorically, of Moses and al-Khiz̤r (الخضر‎)

Main language of text

Persian

Foliation

ff. 212-222

Bibliography

Catalogue

Blochet, Edgar. Catalogue des manuscrits persans. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1905-34, 150.

Work 7: Risālah-’i kanz al-rumūz (Ḥusayn ibn Ḥasan Ḥusaynī, d. c. 1300)

LOC subject headings

Sufism

Author

Ḥusayn ibn Ḥasan Ḥusaynī, d. c. 1300

حسین بن حسن حسینی

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Ḥusayn ibn Ḥasan Ḥusaynī, d. c. 1300 (authorised)

حسین بن حسن حسینی (variant)

Title

Risālah-’i kanz al-rumūz

رسالۀ کنز الرموز

Notes

A versed treatise on mysticism

The work begins by praising the author's masters: Suhrawardī, Yaḥyá ibn Ḥabash, 1152 or 1153-1191, Bahāʼ al-Dīn Valad, 1150-1231, Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī, Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, -1273 or 1274

Main language of text

Persian

Foliation

ff. 223-330

Bibliography

Catalogue

Blochet, Edgar. Catalogue des manuscrits persans. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1905-34, 150.

Work 8: Maqṣad-i aqṣá (Nasafī, ʻAzīz al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad, active 13th century)

LOC subject headings

SufismDoctrines (Early works to 1800)

SufismRituals

Sufism

Author

Nasafī, ʻAzīz al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad, active 13th century

نسفى، عزيز الدين بن محمد

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نسفى، عزيز الدين

Nasafī, ʻAzīz al-Dīn

Aziz ibn Mehmet en-Nesefı̂

Nasafi, Aziz al-Din ibn Muḥammad, active 13th century (authorised)

Aziz al-Din ibn Muḥammad al-Nasafi, active 13th century (variant)

Aziz bin Mehmet en-Nesef♯ł, active 13th century (variant)

Nasafi, Abd al-Aziz ibn Muḥammad, active 13th century (variant)

Nasafi, Aziz, active 13th century (variant)

Nasafi, Aziz al-Din ibn Muḥammad, 13th cent (variant)

Nasafi, Aziz al-Din ibn Muḥammad, fl. 1272 (variant)

Nasafi, 'Azizoddin, active 13th century (variant)

Nesef♯ł, Aziz bin Mehmet, active 13th century (variant)

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Biographical notes

Originally from Nasaf (today Qarshi (Uzbekistan)), a town some four days’ travelling distance from Bukhara. He entered the circle of Najm al-Dīn al-Kubrā, 1145 or 1146-1221 in Central Asia before the Mongol invasion of 1220 [1220 CE]. He became affiliated with Shaykh Saʻd al-Dīn Ḥammūyah, 1190-1251 of the Kubrawiyya order while in Khurasan in the 1240s [1240-1249 CE]. After the attack on Bukhara in 1273 [1273 CE] as a consequence of the Chaghatayid-Ilkhanid rivalry during Abāqā’s reign, he went travelling in Iran and composed different works while in Kirmān (Iran), Shīrāz (Iran)name, Iṣfahān (Iran), and Abarkūh. He is among the first commentators of Ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240 in Persian language

Title

Maqṣad-i aqṣá

مقصد اقصى

Notes

This was one of the first Sufi works translated into Latin and was finally rendered into an English paraphrase by E. H. Palmer in 1867 (see bibliographical references). It is probable that this work was completed by Nasafī prior to 1281 [-1281 CE]. It is a relatively short work. Its contents include a lengthy introduction followed by chapters on the knowledge of God's essence; God's attributes, God's acts; God's acts in the words of the Philosophers; the knowledge of Prophecy and Friendship of God; the beliefs of the People of Imitation, the People of Reasoning and the People of Unveiling; the knowledge of man; the Four Seas and a conclusion. The emphasis is ontological, chapters seven and eight (which discuss the levels of existence) being the most detailed of all. (See (Ridgeon, Lloyd. "Nothing but the truth: the Sufi testament of 'Aziz Nasafi." PhD dissertation, University of Leeds, 1996., pp. 26-7))

Main language of text

Persian

Foliation

ff. 330-332r

Bibliography

Editions

Rabbānī, Ḥāmid, ed. Ganjīnah-i ʻirfān. Tehran: Ganjīnah, 1973.

Translations

Nasafī, ʻAzīz al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad. Oriental mysticism: a treatise on Sufistic and Unitarian theosophy of the Persians. Translated by Palmer, Edward Henry. London: Octagon Pr., 1974 [Repr. from 1867 edition].

Nasafī, ʻAzīz al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad. Excerpta manuscripti cujusdam Turcici. Edited by Schultze, Georg and William Marsden. Translated by Müller, Andreas. Berlin: Ex officina Georgii Schulzii, 1665.

Studies

Landolt, Hermann. "Nasafi, ‘Aziz b. Muhammad (7th AH / 13th CE century)." Encyclopaedia Iranica. Online Edition, [n.d.].

Ridgeon, Lloyd. ʻAzīz Nasafī. Richmond: Curzon, 1998.

Ridgeon, Lloyd. "Nothing but the truth: the Sufi testament of 'Aziz Nasafi." PhD dissertation, University of Leeds, 1996.

Catalogue

Blochet, Edgar. Catalogue des manuscrits persans. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1905-34, 150.

Physical Description

Number of folios

332 ff.

Dimensions of folio

width 13cm, height 18cm

History

Place

Anatolia

Date of copy

17th. century

Date of copy

15th. century