[IO Islamic 1670] Manâḳib-al'ârifîn

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Manâḳib-al’ârifîn. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1670 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 630 here with notations and hyperlinks]. c. Shaikhs. 630 Manâḳib-al’ârifîn ( مناقب العارفين ) . Biographies and detailed traditions of the principal mystical Shaikhs of the seventh century of the Hijrah, that is, of Jalâl-aldîn Rûmî, his father, son, and descendants, as well as his friends and spiritual successors, composed by Maulânâ Shams-aldîn Aḥmad Aflâkî al’ârifî ; comp. Rieu i. p.344 ; G. Flügel ii. p. 371; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 553 ; Hammer, in Wiener Jahrbücher , vol. 74 , Anzeigeblatt, p. 5 ; Ḥ. Khalfa vi. p. 154, etc. Numerous portions of this work have been translated into English by J.W. Redhouse in the Introduction to his translation of ‘The Mesnevi, Book the First,’ Trübner’s Oriental Series, London, 1881. The author commenced this work, according to his own statement , on fol. 2a,lin. penult., A.H. 710 = A.D. 1310, 1311 (perhaps a clerical error for A.H. 718= A.D. 1318, 1319, the usual date given in the Vienna and British Museum copies ), and did not complete it before A.H. 754 (A.D. 1353), as the last words of this copy unmistakably prove. They run here (with one important difference from the wording in other copies) thus: تأريخ تصنيف المصنّف افضل الفضلا مولانا شمس الدين احمد افلاكى العارفى رحمه الله سنۀ اربع و خمسين و سبعمائة’. The work is divided into ten faṣls, the first nine of which contain, each, one biography of a great Shaikh, whilst the tenth gives a complete list of the descendants of Jalâl-aldîn Rûmî’s father, of Jalâl-aldîn himself, and of his son, Sultan Walad. Faṣl I: Bahâ-alḥaḳḳ wa-aldîn Walad Muḥammad bin al-Ḥusain bin Aḥmad alkhaṭîbî albalkhî, the father of Jalâl-aldîn Rûmî, who died A.H. 628 (A.D. 1231), on fol. 3a. Faṣl II: Burhân-alḥaḳḳ wa-aldîn almuḥaḳḳiḳ wa almudaḳḳiḳ altirmidhî alhusainî, the spiritual guide of Jalâl-aldîn Rûmî, on fol. 17b. Faṣl III :Maulânâ Jalâl-aldîn Rûmî, the great mystic poet , born A.H. 604, The 6th of Rabî’-alawwal (A.D. 1207, September 30), in Balkh, died the 5th of Jumâdâ-alâkhar, A.H. 672 (A.D. 1273, December 17), in Ḳûniyah (Iconium), seems to begin on Fol. 22b (no heading marked in the text ). Faṣl IV: Maulânâ Shams-alḥaḳḳ wa-aldîn Muḥammad bin ‘Alî bin Malakdâd altabrîzî, Jalâl-aldîn’s friend and guide, on fol. 177a. Faṣl V: Shaikh Ṣalâḥ-alḥaḳḳ wa-aldîn Farîdûn, known as Zarkûb-i-Ḳûnawî ( القونوى , more correctly Ḳûniyawî, القونيوى ) the gold – beater of Iconium, friend and one of the spiritual successors of Jalâl-aldîn Rûmî , on fol. 200b. Faṣl VI: Ḥusâm-alḥaḳḳ wa-aldîn Ḥasan bin Muḥammad bin al-Ḥasan Ibn Akhî Turk, also one of Jalâl-aldîn’s spiritual successors and chief collaborator in the Mathnawî, on fol. 211a. Faṣl VII: Bahâ-alḥaḳḳ wa-aldîn Sulṭân Walad, Jalâl-aldîn’s son, died A.H. 712 (A.D. 1312), on fol. 225a. Faṣl VIII : Jalâl-alḥaḳḳ wa-aldîn Farîdûn, known as Ćalabî Amîr ‘Ârif albalkhî son of Sulṭân Walad, born the 8th of Dhû-alka’dah, A.H. 670 (A.D. 1272, June 6), died the 24th of Dhû-alḥijjah, A.H. 719 (A.D. 1320, February 5), on fol. 238a. Faṣl IX : Ćalabî Shams-aldîn Amîr ‘Âbid, brother of Amîr ‘Ârif, died the 5th of Muḥarram , A.H. 739 (A.D. 1338, July 24). His brother and spiritual successor, Ḥusâm-almillah wa-aldîn Amîr Wâḥid, died the last of Sha’bân, A.H. 742 (A.D. 1342, February 7), and was succeeded by his younger son Ćalabî Amîr ‘Âbid (according to Rieu, loc. cit.: ‘Âlim), on fol. 283b. Faṣl X: Full list of the descendants of the foregoing Shaikhs, on fol. 288b. Issue of Jalâl-aldîn Rûmî’s father, Bahâ-aldîn (Faṣl I) : 1. ‘Alâ-aldîn Muḥammad; 2. Jalâl-aldîn Muḥammad (i.e. Jalâl-aldîn Rûmî); 3.Fâṭimah Khâtûn. Issue of Jalâl-aldîn Rûmî (Faṣl III): 1. Bahâ aldîn Walad, i.e. Sulṭân Walad; 2. ‘Alâ-aldîn Muḥammad, killed in the affray of Shams-aldîn Tabrîzî; 3. Mużaffar-aldîn Amîr ‘Âlim; 4. Malikah Khâtûn. Issue of Jalâl-aldîn’s Son, Sulṭân Walad (Faṣl VII) 1. ĆalabÎ Jalâl-aldîn Amîr ‘Ârif; 2.Muṭahharah Khâtûn, with the epithet Ḥaḍrat Maulânâ ‘Âbidah ; 3 . Sharaf Khâtûn, with the epithet ‘ Ârifah – These three were by his wife Fâṭimah, daughter of Shaikh Ṣalâḥ-aldîn ; 4. Ćalabî Shams-aldîn Amîr ‘Âbid; 5. Ćalabî Ṣalâḥ-aldîn Amîr Zâhid (died in Sha’bân, A.H. 734=A.D. 1334, April); 6. Ḥusâm-aldîn Amîr Wâḥid,-these latter three were by two concubines, viz. Nuṣrat Khâtûn and Sunbulah Khâtûn. Issue of Ćalabî Jalâl-aldîn Amîr ‘Ârif (Faṣl VIII and No. I in X, c): 1. Amîr ’Âlim ; 2. Amîr ‘Âdil; 3.Malikah Khâtûn , -- all three by his wife Daulat Khâtûn, daughter of Amîr Ḳaiṣar Tabrîzî. (e) Issue of Ćalabî Shams-aldîn ‘Âbid (Faṣl IX and No. 4 in X, c): 1. Ćalabî Muhammad; 2. Ćalabî Amîr ‘Âlim; 3. Ćalabî Shâh Malik. (f) Issue of Muṭahharah, Sulṭân Walad’s daughter (Faṣl X, c, 2) : Burhân-aldîn Amîr Shâh. Beginning of the whole work: الحمد لله الذى نوّر قلوب اوليائه بانوار المعانى و البيان و اجرى من فيض فضله على لسان الانسان الخ . Dated the beginning of Rabî’-alawwal, A.H. 1027 (A.D. 1618, end of February). Collated. A few pages a little injured. Ff. 288 and 289 are turned upside down, so that fol. 287b is immediately followed by fol. 289b. A Turkish translation of the Manâḳib-al’ârifîn, styled هشت بهشت or the eight paradises (containing only the first eight faṣls of the original) , probably by Darwîsh Maḥmûd, who died A.H. 998 (A.D. 1590), is noticed by G. Flügel ii. p. 372, and Ḥ. Khalfa vi. p. 154, No. 13037. No. 1670, ff. 291, II, 23; Naskhî; illuminated frontispiece; size, 93/4 in. by 73/8 in.