23. More on the Sources of Jami’s Nafahat. 
By W. lvanow. 
In my note on the sources of Jami’s well-known hagiologi- 
cal work Nafahatu’l-uns,' | mentioned as one of Jami’s probable 
authorities a treatise which he calls Risdla-t-Igbaliyya.? The 
work in question was not accessible to me at the time when the 
former article was written Only after the paper had already 
been set up in tvpe I found a MS. of the /g¢baliyya, although 
under a different ers in the Imperial Library, at Caleutta.® 
Having examined it I am now in a position to give precise 
information concerning it, and thus to complete and correct 
what is said in this connection in my former article 
e work is a collection of summaries of the instructive 
discourses of the mediaeval Persian Sufic shaykh ‘Alau’d-Daula 
Ruknu’d-Din Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Muhammad 
al-Biyabanaki as-Samnani,? who died the 22 Rajab 736 A.H., or 
6th March 1336. The book belongs to the type of composi- 
tions which in India are usually called Maljazat. The discus- 
sions are of a rather encyclopaedic character, as always is the 
case with the diaries of this kind which record the subjects 
dealt with only in their peti order, regardiess of any 
system. roa contrary the practice of the 
majority of writers of this kind, the ox of the present work 
does not give the dates of the discourses, and apparently even 
avoids giving any dates at all in his book. If the copy belong- 
ing to the Bodleian library, referred to in the foot note, contains 
precisely the same work, the date of the first majlis would be 
724 A.H./1324-1325 A.D. This is probably quite correct, 
because the present work could not have been written before 
721 A.H./1321 A.D. This may be inferred from the fact that 
ee Journal re Proceeding of the Asiatic Society of Sate vol. 
xvi (1922), Aas 402. 
* See op. ag 400-401. Jami refers to it in the Na/ahat (Nassau- 
‘968 edition, Caicttta, ae be pp. 545, seo and 685. 
3 See Cat. f the Pers. MSS. in the Bahar libra ¥, Caloutta, 1921, 
No. 184, wher Sik appears Saye the title Malfazat- isha Ala grit la 
Apparently a "slightly different version of the same work is described 
under the title aie” majlis in E, Sachau — i. Ethé’s Catalogue o the 
Persian MSS. in the Bodleian library, No. 1446. _ The initial words coin- 
cide in both, but ee on the ng seem ni differ. 
aibanak (now pesconnaet as Bi fob aise is a very a and 
t ra with 
Which in the course of his tory it hi “been almos aio ays connected 
administratively and jecsinorelally: The chief places in it are Khir and 
daq. 
