396 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVII, 
and Anisu’l-murtdin wa shamsu’l-majalis (containing the story 
of Yiisuf and Zulaykha),! are also known. the more reason 
to expect that they were known also to Ansari’s devoted 
disciple, who naturally would not neglect them when com- 
piling the Tabagat, just after the Shaykh’s death. But 
although he dwells much on Ansari’s talents as an Arabic poet. 
quotes occasionally his Munajat, and refers to some of his 
. does not say a single word about any of the 
to suggest that this work is identical with Manazilu’s-sairin? 
It is noteworthy that there is also no allusion to the Shaykh’s 
Persian poetry, so plentifully quoted in the works ascribed to 
im. 
Il. Qushayriyya. The well-known treatise of Abi’l- 
Qasim Qushayri of Nishapur (d. 465 A.H./1072 A.D.) was left 
almost unused by Jami. He refers to is as an authority only 
twice (pp. 4 and 89), and although he mentions Qushayri him- 
self more than half a dozen times, the latter is not referred to 
asarawi. His biography (p. 255) is very short and based on 
Kash{w’l-mahjub. 
III. Kashfu’l-mahjub, by ‘Ali b. ‘Uthman al-Jullabi al- 
Hujwiri, d. between 465 and 469 A.H./1072-1076 A.D. It is 
one of the favourite sources of Jami, being referred to often. 
Jami uses his narrative chiefly for additional anecdotes, inserted 
The biographies which are entirely or chiefl “based on this 
work are not numerous (Nos. 351, 353, 354, 355, 365, 367-369, 
374-380). Hujwiri’s own biography (No. 377, pp. 358-359) 1s 



1 The same can be also said of this work (see the preceding footnote). 
There was a copy of it known in the India Office library (see No. 1458 of 
Ethé’s Catalogue), and I found another in Turkestan (now in the Asiatic 
Museum, Petrograd). On the whole one is much inclined to think them 
forgeries 
2 ¥ BG * 2 = t . Le ~ 
Cf £386: elodl — Lage 90 a= cots oo coh aS Pes can 
Jt d5: ais, . Does this mean that the author carefully studied the 
literary inheritance left by the Shaykh ? 
3 ed i: ° * = " fe Z ne 
See £. 69: yuo yy So WG Km oS i! dpe wlelde 4° clad exe 
ep shar de Gy! 3 3! gly gy wlelao. Jami omits this passage, but several 
times he mentions 21% wleldro (or ele ) Crale (ef. pp- 376, 382, 397), 
alluding apparently to the author of the Tabagat. He refers also to Mana- 
zilu’s-sairin, accepting Ansari’s authorship of it as a fact, once in his 
preface (p. 20), and twice in connection with saints of the end of the 
VIT and VIlIIc. A.H. (pp. 568 and 666). 

