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1922.} The Sources of Jami’s Nafahat. 397 
one of the vaguest in the Nafakat and is based on an analysis 
of the Kashf itself. 
I need not dwell on the value of the information found in 
this work, and may refer the reader to the notes in Prof, R. 
icholson’s translation, published in the Gibb Memorial Series, 
Vol. XVIT, 1911, which is of great help to every student of 
Sufism. ‘T will add only a few words about the editions of the 
original text. It was Jithographed several times at Lahore, 
ut a better lithography appeared in 1914 at Samarqand. 
About 25 years ago it was critically edited in Petrograd by the 
late Prof. V. Zhukovsky, from several good MSS. This edition, 
however, was not issued to the public, because the editor did 
not wish to publish it without an introduction, for which he 
Was arranging to secure extracts from various rare MSS. The 
matter was continually postponed, until Prof. V. Zhukovsky 
suddenly died in January 1918. 
IV. Works of ‘Aynu‘l-Qudat Hamadani, with his original 
name of Abi’l-Ma‘ali (or Abua'l-Fadail) ‘Abdu’l-lah b. Muham- 
mad Miyanaji, executed ca. 533 A.H./1139 A.D. He was the 
author of the well-known Tamhidat, sometimes called also 
Zubdatu’l-hagaiq (as in the Nafahat, p. 476. Cf. also Sachau 
and Ethé, Cat. of the Persian, etc., MSS. in the Bodleian library, 
No. 1247), and of another, much rarer, work on § ufism, a 
collection of his epistles (a MS. of it is described by Rieu, 
Cat. of the Pers. MSS. in the British Museum, vol. I, p. 412). 
Jami calls it Maktabat (cf. pp. 350 and 474), and it is most 
probably identical with what he calls Rasail (pp. 350, 374, 
475). These works, especially the letters (as it seems), were 
freely perused by Jami, but it is very difficult to state pre- 
cisely which biographies are based on them because the Makti- 
bat, which are rare, are not accessible in Calcutta. ‘The notices 
probably extracted from them may be Nos. 79(?), 369, 370, 
383 (?), 429, (431-4327) 483-458, ete. Their author s biography 
(No. 456, pp. 475-477) is also very vague and based on his own 
works, chiefly Tamhidat (cf. p. 476). : = 
. Biography of Ahmad-i-Jam. Strange as it may see ~ 
whilst the greatest Sufic saints and most talented Persian ee 
were only rarely honoured by biographical oa Pare og 
were several, at least four, compositions of this kin e 
voted to the life of an illiterate darwish of local importance, 
ees: an D. J have already 
hmad-i Jam, who died in 536 A.H./1 iS d here only a few 
associated himself with Ahmad; another work, al-o by @ 
disciple of that saint, Ahmad-i-Tarakhistani. 
LLL ane 
: » JRAS, 1917, 
| See my paper ‘A biography of Shaykh Ahmad-i-Jam, 
pp. 291-365, pape 1ography 
