Working Bibliography on the Shattari Sufi Order
Compiled by Carl W. Ernst
ABBREVIATIONS:
IOL
U. Punjab
Sherani
U. Punjab
Shafi`
ASB
ASB
Curzon
Munzawi
Storey
AMU
ATU
Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library. Oxford:
India Office, 1903; reprint ed., London: India Office Library & Records, 1980.
Husayn, Muhammad Bashir. Fihrist-i makhtutat-i Sherani. 3 vols., Lahore:
Danishgah-i Panjab, 1969.
Husayn, Muhammad Bashir. Fihrist-i makhtutat-i Shafi` (ba-farsi o urdu o panjabi)
dar kitabkhana-i Professor Doctor Mawlawi Muhammad Shafi`. Ed. Ahmad Rabbani.
Lahore: Danishgah-i Panjab, 1392/1351 sh./1972.
Ivanow, Wladimir. Concise Descriptive Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the
Collection of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Bibliotheca Indica, 240. Calcutta: The
Asiatic Society, 1924; reprint ed., 1985.
----------. Concise Descriptive Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the Curzon
Collection, Asiatic Society of Bengal. Bibliotheca Indica, 241. Calcutta: The Asiatic
Society, 1926.
Munzawi, Ahmad. Fihrist-i mushtarak-i nuskha-ha-yi khatti-i farsi-i Pakistan. Vols.
II-IV, XI-XII. Islamabad: Markaz-i Tahqiqat-i Farsi-i Iran u Pakistan,
1363/1405/1984, 1369/1410/1990, 1370/1411/1991.
Storey, C. A. Persian Literature, a Bio-bibliographical Survey. Vol. I, part 1 (Qur'anic
Literature; History); vol. I, part 2 (Biography). London: Luzac & Company,
Ltd., 1927-53; reprint ed., 1970-72.
Aligarh Muslim University
Anjuman-i Taraqqi-i Urdu
1. Individual treatises
1.1. ‘Abd Allah Shattari.
1.1.1. Risala-i ‘Abd Allah Shattari. MS Khudabakhsh
1.1.2. Tawba wa dhikr. Anonymous treatise containing sayings of Hallaj and ‘Abd Allah
Shattari. Karachi [now Islamabad], National Museum 1965-210-21, cit. Munzawi III,
1365, no. 2447.
1.2. Qadin Shattar.
1.2.1. Risala (bio. of ‘Abd Allah Shattari). MS Maner Khanqah.
1.2.2. Maktubat. MS Maner Khanqah (bad cond.)
1.3. Baha’ al-Din al-Ansari.
1.3.1. Risala-i shattariyya.
1.3.1.1. ASB 1303
1.3.1.2. ASB Curzon 434
1.3.1.3. IOL 1913
1.3.1.4. MS 325 Farsiyya Madh-Tasawwuf-Akhlaq, University Coll, AMU
1.3.1.5. MS Khudabakhsh
1.3.1.6. Lahore, U. Punjab, Sherani no. 1298 [4079/1027/6], cat. II, 234
1.3.1.7. Karachi ATU, p. 50, 1 QF 74, 1 QF 140, 2 QA 16, 2 QF 35
1.4. Muhammad Ghawth Gwaliyari (bios of Sh. P’hul: NK IV,21)
1.4.1. Biographies
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1.4.1.1. Anon. Fath al-’arifin. MS Tonk, I, 239, no. 392 (Shaukat Ali Khan, A
Descriptive Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts, vol. I [Tonk: Arabic and Persian
Research Institute, 1987]).
1.4.1.2. Mahmud Tayyar Kashmiri (late 12th/18th c.). Shajarat al-athmar fi dhikr alakhyar. Large 2-vol. compilation of Sufi biographies of 3rd-5th c., incl.
Muhammad Ghawth and Wajih al-Din Gujarati. Munzawi, XI, 961, no. 193 (1
MS)
1.4.2. Awrad-i ghawthiyya
1.4.2.1. MS 446 Curzon ASB, my printout (VIII:24, 30-35)
1.4.2.2. MS 1252 ASB
1.4.2.3. Litho. ed. Hyderabad: Matba’-i Fayd al-Karim
1.4.3. Jawahir-i khamsa.
1.4.3.1. MS 1384, H.L. 1344, Patna (VII:105-10, 113-16; VIII:3)
1.4.3.2. ASB uncat.
1.4.3.3. IO 1875-6
1.4.3.4. AMU Habibganj 21/114
1.4.3.5. MS U Punjab, Sherani 1145 [3581/558], cat. II, 211
1.4.3.6. Karachi ATU, p. 233, 4 QF 198
1.4.4. Kalid-i makhazin. MS 1383, H.L. 1376, Patna; Lahore, Public Library 2, 297, cit.
Munzawi, III, 1812, no. 3326
1.4.5. Kitab dar da’wat-i asma’-i ‘uzzam. U Punjab, Sherani 1331, cat. II, 240
1.5. ‘Isa Jund Allah (b. 962/1555, d. 1031/1622). See Rashid, 31-103.
1.5.1. Malfuzat by Farhi, Kashf al-haqa’iq, dated 1020/1611-2
1.5.1.1. MS 596 Tasawwuf Farsi, Asafiyya (cat. vol. 1).
1.5.1.2. Sindh University (cit. Rashid).
1.5.1.3. Peshawar University (cit. Rashid)
1.5.2. Anwar al-asrar (tafsir). Sindh University (cit. Rashid).
1.5.3.Asma’-i husna. Munzawi, III, 1535
1.5.4.‘Ayn al-ma’ani.
1.5.4.1.MS 1456 Tasawwuf Farsi, Asafiyya (cat. vol. 3)
1.5.4.2.MS 1386, H.L. 1363, Patna
1.5.4.3.Munzawi, III, 1712
1.5.4.4.Sindh University (cit. Rashid); composed 997
1.5.4.5.Lithograph ed. Hyderabad: Matba’-i Fayd al-Karim, 1893 (xerox copy).
1.5.5.Daqiqa.
1.5.5.1.Rashidi, pp. 74-80.
1.5.5.2.MS 462/18, fols. 114a-116a ASB
1.5.5.3.MS 462/18 Curzon ASB
1.5.5.4.MS 21/212/3 Farsiyya Tasawwuf, Habibganj, AMU
1.5.5.5.Sindh University (cit. Rashid).
1.5.6.Fath-i mathnawi. Munzawi, III, 1641
1.5.7.Muraqaba and Barzakh [identified only as Barzakh in catalogue]. MS JF 73, AMU, dated
966/1558-9.
1.5.8.Rawdat al-husna.
1.5.8.1.Munzawi, III, 1535
1.5.8.2.Sindh University (cit. Rashid); composed 989
1.5.9.Sharh-i risala-i wahdat al-wujud, Persian comm. on Arabic work by ‘Abd Allah Balyani.
Sindh University (cit. Rashid).
1.6.Isma’il ibn Mahmud Sindhi Shattari Qadiri Burhanpuri.
1.6.1.Makhzan-i da’vat, composed 1037/1627-8, dedicated to ‘Isa. MS 437 Curzon, ASB (NB
VIII:14-17, 37-41). Meditation on the 9 khanqahs deserves translation (transcribed
here).
1.7.Ja’far, Mulla
1.7.1.Asnad-i ashghal-i Shattariyya, composed 1045/1635-6.
1.7.2.Anis al-mufassirin. MS 438 Curzon ASB.
1.8.Fath Muhammad ibn ‘Isa
1.8.1.‘Aqa’id al-sufiyya.
1.8.1.1.MS Acc. no. 807, Patna (NB VII:96). Microfilm printout.1.8.1.1.5 MSS in Karachi
under title Irshad al-salikin; Munzawi, II, 939, no. 1589
1.8.2.Fath al-’aqa’id. Munzawi, III, 1725.
1.8.3.Fath al-awrad. Munzawi, III, 1727
1.8.4.Fath al-madhahib. MS 1853 Tasawwuf Farsi, Asafiyya (cat. vol. 2).
1.8.5.Fath al-mubin li-asma’-i arba’in. Munzawi, III, 1726
1.8.6.Futuh ‘aqa’id ahl al-yaqin. MS 254 Persian, Jamia Millia
1.8.7.Futuh al-i’tiqad. MS 1853 Tasawwuf Farsi, Asafiyya (cat. vol. 2).
1.8.8.Futuh al-awrad.
1.8.8.1.MS 21/131 Farsiyya Tasawwuf, Habibganj, AMU
1.8.8.2.Sindh University (cit. Rashid).
1.8.9.Gulshan-i raz. MS 3502 Tasawwuf Farsi, Asafiyya (cat. vol. 3).
1.8.10.Maratib-i khamsa.
1.8.10.1.MS 253 Persian, Acc. no. 228, Jamia Millia Islamia (11 pages)
1.8.10.2.MS 463/1 Curzon ASB
1.8.10.3.MS 187 Persian, ASB
1.8.10.4.under title ‘Awalim-i khams, Munzawi, III, 1706
1.8.11. Miftah al-falah. MS 115 Tasawwuf Farsi, Asafiyya (cat. vol. 2).
1.8.12.Miftah al-haqa’iq. MS 1640 Tasawwuf Farsi, Asafiyya (cat. vol. 3).
1.8.13.Miftah al-salat.
1.8.13.1.MS 497 Tasawwuf ‘Arabi, Asafiyya (cat. vol. 2)
1.8.13.2.MS 22/21 Farsiyya, Fiqh-Kalam-’Aqa’id, Shaifta Dhakhira, AMU.
1.8.13.3.Sindh University (cit. Rashid).
1.9.Shihab al-Din ibn Fath Muhammad. His student Muhammad Sadiq Shihabi Sa’di wrote a
translation of one of the malfuzat of ‘Abd al-Qadir Jilani in which the Qadiri lineage of the
Shattaris is given; cf. Munzawi, IV, 2316.
1.9.1.Khulasat al-awrad. Munzawi, III, 1430.
1.9.1.1.MSS 100, 114 Tasawwuf Farsi, Asafiyya (cat. vol. 1)
1.9.1.2.MS Curzon 44b, ASB (NB VIII:22-23).
1.9.1.3.MS Karachi, Hamdard R 370
1.9.1.4.MS Khayrpur, Public Library 297/5 Sh H B
1.9.2.Khulasat al-Qadiriyya. Qadiri prayers from Ghunyat talibi etc. Munzawi, III, 1435, 2 MSS.
1.10.Ghulam Yasin ‘Ayn Allah ibn Shihab al-Din
1.10.1.Sharh-i ayat-i Sulaymaniyya. reconstruction of life of Solomon based on Qur’anic verses.
Sindh University (cit. Rashid).
1.11.Burhan al-Din Raz-i Ilahi (d. 1083/1672-3)
1.11.1.Majmu’a-i rasa’il-i hadrat shah Burhan. MS 456 Tasawwuf Farsi, Asafiyya (cat. vol. 3).
1.11.2.Sharh-i amantu billah.
1.11.2.1.MS 21/329 Farsiyya Tasawwuf, Habibganj, AMU
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1.11.2.2.MS 29767/28 Farsiyya Tasawwuf, Subhanallah, AMU
1.11.2.3.MS 1276 ASB
1.11.2.4.MS 1277 ASB
1.11.2.5.MS 156 N. Asafiyya
1.11.2.6.Bankipore (uncat.)
1.11.2.7.MS 251, fols. 21-37, also MS 641, Or. Res. Dept. Mysore University
1.11.2.8.IOL 1924/9
1.11.2.9.Munzawi,
1.11.3.Wasiyyat nama.
1.11.3.1.MS 37 Persian, Acc. no. 228, Jamia Millia Islamia
1.11.3.2.MSS 21/328 and 21/214/5 Farsiyya Tasawwuf, Habibganj, AMU
1.11.3.3.MSS 480, 690 Asafiyya (cat. I, p. 496)
1.11.3.4.U Punjab, Sherani 4302/7/1249, cat. II, 265, no. 1470
1.11.4.Risala.
1.11.4.1.MS U Punjab, Sherani 1225, cat. II, 223
1.11.4.2.Munzawi, III, 1483, cf. 1453
1.11.5.Malfuzat (1) comp. ‘Aqil Khan Razi. Thamarat al-hayat.
1.11.5.1.MS 484 Tasawwuf Farsi, Asafiyya (cat. vol. 1)
1.11.5.2.MS Acc. no. 1315, Patna (NB VII:96)
1.11.5.3.IOL 1896
1.11.5.4.Rieu III, 1091b
1.11.5.5.MS 1278 Persian, ASB, Calcutta (my copy).
1.11.5.6.MS U Punjab, Sherani 1139 [4264/1211], cat. II,
1.11.6.Malfuzat (2) comp. Nur Sabir. Anwar al-huda. MS 702 Asafiyya (cat. I, p. 402).
1.11.7.Malfuzat (3) by anonymous disciple. Lutf al-ma’ani. MS 2919 Tasawwuf Farsi, Asafiyya
(cat. vol. 3).
1.11.8. Malfuzat (4) comp. Gazur-i Ilahi. Rawa’ih al-anfas.
1.11.8.1. Munzawi, III, 1244, 1530 (3 MSS).
1.11.8.2. Rashid
1.11.9. Malfuzat (5) comp. Muhammad Yusuf wuld-i Muhammad Tahir Khanpuri (?), Lubb aldaqa’iq (cit. Bashir Muhammad Khan)
1.11.10. Malfuzat (6) comp. ‘Alam Allah Kamal (cit. Bashir Muhammad Khan)
1.11.11. Treatise quoted in Risala-i nafy wa ithbat. MS 1328/2, ASB, fols. 161-164 (NB VIII:1822).
1.11.12. Pem kahani. Hindi mathnawi with Persian commentary. Rashidi, pp. 332-41.
1.12. Burhan Allah Shah Nur Lashkar Kuti (disc. of Raz-i Ilahi). Nur-i wahdat. MS 6021 Tasawwuf
Farsi, Asafiyya (cat. vol. 4).
1.13. Sibghat Allah (d. 1616)
1.13.1. Trans., Muhammad ibn Khatir al-Din ibn Khwaja al-’Attar (Muhammad Ghawth), alJawahir al-Khams, ed. Ahmad ibn al-’Abbas (2 vols., 2nd ed., Egypt: Muhammad Rif’at
‘Amir, 1393/1973).
1.13.2. Kitab al-wahda
1.13.3. Iradat al-daqa’iq
1.13.4. Sharh mir’at al-haqa’iq
1.13.5. Ma la yas’alu al-murid
1.13.6. Malfuzat, comp Habib Allah ‘Abd al-Fattah. MS 1420 Tasawwuf, Asafiyya, Hyderabad.
Composed 1607; copied 1631-32. 44 fols. Compiler is probably his son, author of a
tafsir (below).
1.14. Hasan Qurbi, Sayyid Shah (1707-68)
1.15. ‘Abd Allah Shattari (d. 1753, a descendant of Shaykh P’hul, buried near Chidambaram)
1.15.1. Sirr-i ru-numa
1.15.2. Miftah al-jafr
1.15.3. Sanad al-irshad ila sabil al-rashad
1.16. Muhammad Muhsin Burhanpuri.
1.16.1. Risala-i Zawa’. MS 3335 Tasawwuf ‘Arabi, Asafiyya (cat. vol. 3).
1.17. Farhi (Isma’il ibn Mahmud Sindhi)
1.17.1. Makhzan-i da’vat. MS 90, also 98 Tasawwuf Farsi, Asafiyya (cat. vol. 1).
1.18. Ibrahim Shattari. A’ina-i haqa’iq-numa, sharh-i jam-i jahan-numa.
1.18.1. Hyderabad: Matba’-i Abu al-’Ala’i, 1313/1895-6. (VI:116-20)
1.18.2. MS Raza Library, Rampur.
1.18.3.Munzawi, III, 1376
1.19.Muhammad Murad al-Qadiri al-Shattari al-Turabi al-Burhani (ca. 1114/1701). al-Mustaw’ab fi
ahkam al-mushkilat. MS Rampur I, 496230; cit. GALS II, 627.
1.20.‘Abd al-Nabi [disciple of] Shaykh ‘Abd Allah Shattari (active ca. 1601-1630).
1.20.1.Dastur al-mufassirin. MS 18/541 Tajwid ‘Arabi, Farangi Mahall Dhakhira, AMU
1.20.2.Ruh al-arwah fi sharh hikmat al-ishraq. Cited by Munzawi, II, 1000, quoting Rahman ‘Ali.
MSS?
1.20.3.Sharh-i jawahir-i khamsa. MSS Bahawalpur, Karachi, cit. Munzawi, III, 1791, no. 3293.
1.21.Muhammad Rida Shattari Qadiri Lahawri, Shah (d. 1118/1706).
1.21.1.Adab-i muridi. MS 5319 ‘irfan, Ganj Bakhsh, Islamabad. My printout
1.21.2.Iman. Munzawi, III, 1041, no. 1758. credal.
1.21.3.Shajara-i nama-i piran-i Shattar. Munzawi, XI, 941, no. 166 (1 MS).
1.22.Habib Allah ibn Sibghat Allah Qadiri Shattari, known as Shah Bari Sahib.
1.22.1.Tafsir.
1.22.1.1.MS Nadwa 94.
1.22.1.2.litho under title Habib al-haqa’iq fi tafsir al-daqa’iq.
1.23.Wajih al-Din ‘Alawi (d. 998/1589)
1.23.1.Miftah al-da’wat. IOL 2271.
1.23.2.al-Haqiqat al-Muhammadiyya.
1.23.2.1.Ed. with Urdu trans. Muhammad Zubayr Ghulam Nabi Qurayshi (Ahmadabad:
Sarkhej Rawda Committee, 1385/1966).
1.23.2.2.MS Tashkent cit. Rizvi
1.23.2.3.MS Patna, XVI, 1399
1.23.3.Malfuzat-i Shaykh Wajih al-Din ‘Alawi.
1.23.3.1.MS 21/221 Farsi, Habib Ganj Collection, AMU, by Muhammad Muhsin
Burhanpuri.
1.23.3.2.MS 547 Tasawwuf, Asafiyya, Hyderabad (compiler not named)
1.23.3.3.MS Rampur cit. Rizvi
1.23.3.4.Munzavi, III, no. 3709 (2 MSS)
1.23.4.Thamarat al-quds min shajarat al-uns. Comp. Mirza La’l Beg. MS 5 Tarajim-i Sufiyya, Salar
Jung Museum [cit. Eaton]
1.24.Muhammad A’zam G’hartali. Munsha’at-i a’zam. Lahore, U. Punjab, Sherani no. 4470/1420,
also 3212/207 (cat. II, 375, nos. 2053-54).
1.25.Hashim Pir ‘Alawi (d. 1646, Bijapur)
1.25.1.Ganj-i asrar. Comp. Na’im Allah. malfuzat, 1664-5. MS 134 Tasawwuf Farsi, Salar Jung
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1.25.2.Maqsud al-murad. Comp. Shah Murad ibn Sayyid Jalal. MS 335 Tasawwuf, Asafiyya,
Hyderabad. 141 pp. Munzavi, III, no. 3602 (3 MSS)
1.25.3.Tuhfa az kamtarin. Comp. Kamtarin. Bio on fols. 54-75. MS Hashim Dargah, Bijapur,
75 fols.
1.26.Muhammad Mudarris (d. 1675, Bijapur). Tajalliyyat-i Rahmani. Comp. ‘Ali Muhammad Husayni
(1663-1724, grandson of Sibghat Allah’s nephew Sayyid Muhammad; buried near Arcot).
MS Tasawwuf 28, Salar Jung
1.27.Anonymous
1.27.1.Fawa’id-i Rukni. MS Khudabakhsh
1.27.2.Manahij al-Shattar. MS Khudabakhsh
1.27.3. Risala-i shattariyya qadiriyya. MS 1150 Tasawwuf Farsi, Asafiyya (cat. vol. 3).
1.27.4. Risala-i sufiyya-i Shattariyya. MS Khudabakhsh
1.27.5. Shattari shajaras. (VI:98-103)
2. Biographical Works and Shajaras
2.1. Anon. Tuhfat al-salasil, completed in 1049/1639 in mixed prose and verse, on the Shattaris,
Shah Farid al-Din, and his father Bayazid Thani. Munzawi, XI, 898, no. 110 (1 MS).
2.2. Sulayman ibn Sa’d Allah (time of Aurangzeb). Ahwal-i mashayikh-i kibar. On Muhammad
Ashraf Shattari Lahuri (d. 1104/1693). Munzawi, XI, 969, no. 151 (1 MS).
3. Secondary Studies
3.1. General and Regional Studies
3.1.1. Kokan, Muhammad Yousuf. Arabic and Persian in the Carnatic 1710-1969. Madras: Hafiza
House, 1974.
3.1.2. ----------. “Sufi Presence in South India.” In Islam in India, Studies and Commentaries, vol. 2,
Religion and Religious Education, ed. Christian W. Troll (New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House
Pvt Ltd, 1985), pp.
3.2. Individual figures
3.2.1. Muhammad Ghawth Gwaliyari
3.2.1.1. Ahmad, Mas’ud. Muhammad Ghawth Gwaliyari. Pakistan?
3.2.1.2. Fadl Allah Shattari. Manaqib-i Ghawthiyya. Urdu trans. [with additions] by Muhammad
Zahir al-Haqq. Ahmedabad: Abu al-’Ala’i Steam Press, 1933.
3.2.1.3. Abdul Muqtadir, “Muhammad Ghawth Gawaliyari,” EI1, IV, 687-88 (1936).
3.2.1.4. Ernst, Carl W. "Persecution and Circumspection in the Shattari Sufi Order." In
Islamic Mysticism Contested: Thirteen Centuries of Controversies & Polemics, ed. Fred De Jong
and Berndt Radtke, Islamic History and Civilization: Studies and Texts, 29 (Leiden:
Brill, 1999), pp. 416-35.
3.2.1.5. Kugle, Scott. “Heaven's Witness: The Uses and Abuses of Muhammad Ghawth's
Mystical Ascension.” Journal of Islamic Studies 2003 14(1):1-36.
3.2.2. ‘Isa Jund Allah.
3.2.2.1.
S. Farid, trans. “Hadrat ‘Isa Jund Allah ka marthiyya.” Urdu 36/1 (Jan. 1957),
pp. 92-117.
3.2.2.2.
S. Farid. Article on ‘Isa. Ma’arif (Sept. 1956)
3.2.3. Burhan al-Din Raz-i Ilahi.
3.2.3.1.
Ahsun, Mohd. “’Aqil Khan Razi, Life and Works.” Ph.D. diss., Delhi U.,
1969.
3.2.3.2.
Bashir Muhammad Khan Burhanpuri, “Hadrat Shah Burhan al-Din Raz-i
Ilahi.” Ma’arif 65/5, pp. 378-90.
3.2.4. Ahmad al-Qushashi.
3.2.4.1.
A. H. Johns, “al-Kushashi,” EI2, V, 525-26.
3.2.5. Bud’han
3.2.5.1.
Mohammad Shafi, “Budhan, Shaykh,” EI2, I, 1284. Cf. MIQ I/2 (1950), 58.
3.2.6. ‘Abd al-Ra’uf al-Sinkili
3.2.6.1.
P. Voorhoeve, “’Abd al-Ra’uf al-Sinkili,” EI2, I, 88.
3.2.7. Rizq Allah Mushtaqi
3.2.7.1.
Siddiqui, Iqtidar Husain. “Shaikh Rizq Ullah Mushtaqi.” Islamic Culture 42
(1969).
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