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Title

Collection of eight Sufi texts.

Authors

• Khīwafī, Abū al-Najīb al-Kubrá
• Bisṭāmī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī

Call number

Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 586
(Princeton, Princeton University, Princeton University Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 6030322
• http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/kp78gk711

Publisher

Princeton University

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

1471-1587

Summary

A rare and largely unpublished collection of Sufi texts, all in Arabic with the exception of text 8, which is in Ottoman Turkish. Pages inbetween texts (fol. 1a-3a, 31b-32a, 51a, 140b-141a, 117b-118a, 150b-153b) include Persian poems on mystical and Shiʻite subjects, entries in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish, and ownership entries.

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
   
• Physical description: 19-23 lines per page; written in naskhī script in black on thick laid paper. Chapter titles in red; keywords overlined in red. Many glosses and Persian verses added in the margins. The sixth text, al-Tajrīd, is written in a fine naskhī on thinner paper. A few words smudged, some pages browned, some margins dampstained, and two quires loose.
   
• Text 2 was copied by Aḥmad ibn Ilyās ibn Ṭūrmush (fol. 31); he may also be the copiest for text 1 as the texts appear to be written by the same hand.
   
• 1. fol. 3a-28b: Hādhā al-kitāb Waṣāyāyi qudsīyah.
   
• 2. fol. 28b-31a: A treatise on the ten principles for the purification of the soul, by Abū al-Najīb al-Kubrá al-Khīwafī.
   
• 3. fol. 32b-48b: Mishkāt al-miṣbāḥ fī bayān awrād al-masāʾ wa-al-ṣabāḥ.
   
• 4. fol. 49a-50b: A short treatise on the sayings of Shaykh Muḥammad ibn ʻAī al-Bisṭāmī.
   
• 5. fol. 51b-117a: Ḥadāʾiq al-ḥaqāʾiq.
   
• 6. fol. 118b-140a: Kitāb al-Tajrīd fī kalimat al-tawḥīd.
   
• 7. fol. 141b-148b: Asrār Manāqib al-abrār.
   
• 8. fol. 149a-150a: Hāz̲ā Aṭvār-i qalb haft kūnah ast.
   

Extent

153 leaves, bound : 184 x 137 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Leather binding blind-tooled with floral motifs, with flap; rubbed and front hinge cracked.

Provenance

• Smitskamp Oriental Antiquarium,
   

Subjects topical

• Sufism--Doctrines--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic--15th century
• Manuscripts, Turkish

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