An Introduction to Manuscripts of Seyyed Abdullah Balbari, Qajar Scholar and Naqshbandi Mystic

Manuscripts that are kept at personal libraries, particularly in villages, usually have little chance to be known so this situation prepares the ground for their gradual destruction. Among those manuscripts one can refer to Arabic, Farsi and Hourami manuscripts of Seyyed Abdullah Balberi that are sporadically kept at his children’s homes. He was one of Houraman Sadats [whose ancestors go back to Prophet Muhammad’s households] and one of the Naqshbandi Sufis of Qajar and the First Pahlavi Era. This article deals with introducing Seyyed Abdullah’s manuscripts.