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A book of prayers including Awrad al-Qadiriyah, Awrad al-Fathiyah, and Awrad Naqshibandiyah, prayers according to the Qadiriyah, Fathiyah and Naqshibandi sufi orders, commissioned for Sayyid Abdul-Qadir Khan, copied by Ahsanullah [?] al-Qadir al-Kashmiri North India, probably Kashmir, dated 10th Dhu al-Qa'da 1209/29th May 1795 image 1
A book of prayers including Awrad al-Qadiriyah, Awrad al-Fathiyah, and Awrad Naqshibandiyah, prayers according to the Qadiriyah, Fathiyah and Naqshibandi sufi orders, commissioned for Sayyid Abdul-Qadir Khan, copied by Ahsanullah [?] al-Qadir al-Kashmiri North India, probably Kashmir, dated 10th Dhu al-Qa'da 1209/29th May 1795 image 2
A book of prayers including Awrad al-Qadiriyah, Awrad al-Fathiyah, and Awrad Naqshibandiyah, prayers according to the Qadiriyah, Fathiyah and Naqshibandi sufi orders, commissioned for Sayyid Abdul-Qadir Khan, copied by Ahsanullah [?] al-Qadir al-Kashmiri North India, probably Kashmir, dated 10th Dhu al-Qa'da 1209/29th May 1795 image 3
A book of prayers including Awrad al-Qadiriyah, Awrad al-Fathiyah, and Awrad Naqshibandiyah, prayers according to the Qadiriyah, Fathiyah and Naqshibandi sufi orders, commissioned for Sayyid Abdul-Qadir Khan, copied by Ahsanullah [?] al-Qadir al-Kashmiri North India, probably Kashmir, dated 10th Dhu al-Qa'da 1209/29th May 1795 image 4
A book of prayers including Awrad al-Qadiriyah, Awrad al-Fathiyah, and Awrad Naqshibandiyah, prayers according to the Qadiriyah, Fathiyah and Naqshibandi sufi orders, commissioned for Sayyid Abdul-Qadir Khan, copied by Ahsanullah [?] al-Qadir al-Kashmiri North India, probably Kashmir, dated 10th Dhu al-Qa'da 1209/29th May 1795 image 5
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A book of prayers including Awrad al-Qadiriyah, Awrad al-Fathiyah, and Awrad Naqshibandiyah, prayers according to the Qadiriyah, Fathiyah and Naqshibandi sufi orders, commissioned for Sayyid Abdul-Qadir Khan, copied by Ahsanullah [?] al-Qadir al-Kashmiri
North India, probably Kashmir, dated 10th Dhu al-Qa'da 1209/29th May 1795

21 April 2015, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£2,000 - £3,000

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A book of prayers including Awrad al-Qadiriyah, Awrad al-Fathiyah, and Awrad Naqshibandiyah, prayers according to the Qadiriyah, Fathiyah and Naqshibandi sufi orders, commissioned for Sayyid Abdul-Qadir Khan, copied by Ahsanullah [?] al-Qadir al-Kashmiri
North India, probably Kashmir, dated 10th Dhu al-Qa'da 1209/29th May 1795

Arabic manuscript on gold-sprinkled paper, 65 leaves, last folio left blank, 9 lines to the page written in clear naskhi script in black ink with significant words including Allah and Muhammad picked out in red, diacritics and vowel points in black, gold discs between verses, inner margins ruled in blue and gold, catchwords in wide outer borders, one illuminated frontispiece and three illuminated headpieces all in blue, black and two shades of gold, in good condition, contemporary floral lacquer binding, covers richly decorated with massed stylised floral heads in gold outlined in red, lacquer doublures decorated with floral, geometric and arabesques in colours and gold, slight chipping to edges, red cloth folder and case with red morocco spine richly stamped with title and date
140 x 86 mm.

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The manuscript was commissioned by an unidentified person of note referred to as His Excellency (janab) Sayyid 'Abdul-Qadir Khan Sahib.

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