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[Collection of Arabic mystical and magical texts, poems, prayers and invocations].
Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/Created
[18--?]
Description
110 leaves : paper, ill. ; 124 x 94 (109 x 75) mm. bound to 132 x 101 mm.
Details
Subject(s)
Muḥammad Prophet -632
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Companions
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Islam
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Prayers and devotions
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Prayer
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Islam
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Amulets (Islam)
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Islamic funeral rites and ceremonies
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Islamic poetry, Arabic
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Mysticism
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Islam
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Shādhilīyah
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Early works to 1800
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Islamic magic
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Magic squares
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Related name
Anas ibn Mālik, -approximately 711
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انس بن مالك
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Shāfiʻī, Muḥammad ibn Idrīs, 767 or 768-820
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شافعي، محمد بن ادريس
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Contains
Dajānī, Ḥusayn ibn Salīm, 1788-1858.
Asmāʼ ahl al-Badr.
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دجاني، حسين بن سليم.
اسماء اهل البدر.
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Bākūbī, Yaḥyá.
Ḥizb al-sattār.
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باكوبي، يحيى.
حزب الستار.
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Shādhilī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh, approximately 1196-1258.
Ḥizb al-naṣr.
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شاذلي، ابو الحسن علي بن عبد الله.
حزب النصر.
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Maʻrūf al-Karkhī, -815 or 816.
Istighāthah.
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معروف الكرخي.
استغاثة.
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Notes
Ms. codex.
Physical description: 10-12 lines per page; written in ruqʻah script in black by different hands on white paper. Catchwords; most of ms. is vocalized.
Binding note
Contemporary brown morocco with flap; blind tooled ornamentation.
Language note
Arabic.
Contents
1. fol. 1a-13b: Hādhā Ḥirz [...] wa-yusammá fī al-aṣl Sirray [sic] al-asrār wa-nūr al-anwār. Attributed to Anas ibn Mālik.
2. fol. 14a-18a: [Amulet].
3. fol. 18b-21b: Hādhihi Istighāthah bi-al-Rasūl. Attributed to Muḥammad ibn Idrīs al-Shāfiʻī.
4. fol. 22a-26b: Fāʼidah ʻan Rasūl Allāh. Explanation of funeral rituals.
5. fol. 27a: [Poem].
6. fol. 27b: [blank]
7. fol. 28a-30a: [Prayers, quotations from the Qurʼan, and amulet drawings].
8. fol. 30b-32b: [blank]
9. fol. 33a-55b: Hādhihi Asmāʼ ahl al-Badr / al-Shaykh Ḥusayn al-Muftī al-Dajānī. Dated 8 Rabīʻ al-Thānī 1297 AH (30 March 1880).
10. fol. 56a-64a: Ḥizb al-sattār / Yaḥyá al-Bākūbī.
11. fol. 64b-65b: [blank]
12. fol. 66a-73b: Hādhā Istighfār ʻAbd Allāh ibn Sulṭān.
13. fol. 74: [blank]
14. fol. 75a-78b: Hādhihi Ṣalāh alladhī [sic] kāna yasmaʻuhā Jaʻfar ibn al-Mubārak ʻinda qabr Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib.
15. fol. 79a-80a: Fāʼidah lil-naḍrah [sic] wa-al-ʻayn.
16. fol. 80b-83b: Hādhā Ḥizb al-naṣr / Abū al-Ḥasan al-Shādhilī.
17. fol. 83b-85a: Hādhihi Istighāthat Maʻrūf al-Karkhī.
18. fol. 86a: [blank]
19. fol. 86b-99a: Ḥirz al-ghāsilah.
20. fol. 99b-100a: [blank]
21. fol. 100b: [Talisman with magic square].
22. fol. 101a-103a: Fāʼidat kaffārat al-fawāʼit li-ṣalāh.
23. fol. 103b-110b: [Notes].
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Source acquisition
Gift; The Gardner Magic Project in memory of David A. Gardner, Princeton Class of 1969. AM 2005-82.
Other title(s)
Sirr al-asrār wa-nūr al-anwār.
سر الاسرار ونور الانوار.
Istighāthah bi-al-Rasūl.
استغاثة بالرسول.
Ḥirz al-ghāsilah.
حرز الغاسلة.
Qurʼan. Selections
قرآن.
OCLC
60356315
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