Question:
Assalamu alaykum
I am looking for the following important text of our tariqa. Can you please tell me where I can source it?
Allāh Šāh Ûulām §Alī al-Dahlawī (1240/1824), Makātib-i šarīfa, lytographie, Istanbul, 1976
Many thanks wa salams
Answer:
Alaykum Salam and Eid Mubarak.
These are letters in Persian by Shah Abd Allah al-Dihlawi (qs) the shaykh of Mawlana Khalid al-Baghdadi (qs). Hollis at Harvard ) has two editions:
Title: Makātīb-i sharīfah
Attribution: Shāh Ghulām ʻAlī Dihlavī.
Author / Creator: Ghulām ʻAlī Dihlavī, 1745-1824.
Published: Madrās : Maṭbaʻah-i ʻAzīzī, 1334 [1916]
Description: 225, [5] p.
Language: Persian, Arabic
Notes: Photoreproduction. [116] leaves; 2 pages per leaf; 23 x 34 cm.
In Persian, with citations in Arabic.
Title: Makātīb-i sharīfah
Attribution: Shāh Ghulām ʻAlī Dihlavī.
Author / Creator: Ghulām ʻAlī Dihlavī, 1745-1824.
Published: Lāhūr : Ḥakīm ʻAbd al-Majīd Sayfī, [19–]
Description: [8], 168 p. ; 27 cm.
Language: Persian
Notes: Photoreproduction.
You will find a third edition here.
The latter is followed by a biography of Mawlana Khalid, al-Majd al-talid (pp. 249-261 of the PDF), then letters in Persian and Arabic by Mawlana Khalid.
Wassalam,
Hajj Gibril
