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Subject(s)

• Islam—Prayers and devotions—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Prayer—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Mysticism—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Magic squares—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Muslim scholars—Certification—18th century [Browse]

Contains

• Ibn ʻAbbād, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, 1332 or 1333-1390. Sharḥ al-Ḥikam al-ʻAṭāʾīyah. Selections. [Browse]
• ابن عباد، محمد بن ابراهيم. شرح الحكم العطائية. [Browse]
• ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī, -1166. Fatḥ al-rabbānī. Selections. [Browse]
• عبد القادر الجيلاني. فتح الرباني. [Browse]

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Physical description: 11 lines per page, written in naskh script in black by different hands on white European unglazed, laid paper by different hands. Some keywords and markings in red; catchwords. Text is vocalized.
• Origin: Last text completed 22 Shawwāl, 1170H (10 July 1757) (fol. 134b).

Binding note

Recent cloth binding.

Language note

Arabic.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1b: [Sūrat al-Fātiḥah, followed by two magic squares].
• 2. fol. 2a-13b: [Supplication with excerpts from the Qurʾān].
• 3. fol. 14a: Bāb lil-muʻassar wilādatihā.
• 4. fol. 14b: [Supplication]. From Sharḥ al-Ḥikam.
• 5. fol. 15a-15b: [Supplication in poetic form]. From Fatḥ al-rabbānī.
• 6. fol. 16a-32a: [Supplications].
• 7. fol. 32a-33a: [Antidote against a magic spell].
• 8. fol. 33a-93a: [Supplications].
• 9. fol. 93a-95b: Hādhā duʻāʾ Ḥizb al-baḥr kabīr mujarrab.
• 10. fol. 95b-100b: [Supplications].
• 11. fol. 100b-103a: Hādhā al-duʻāʾ ḥirz dāfiʻ al-balīyāt mujarrab.
• 12. fol. 103a-134b: [Supplications].
• 13. fol. 135a: [Ijāzah]. Given by al-Sayyid Ṣāliḥ al-Qādirī ibn al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Raḥīm al-Qādirī to Mullā Fakhr al-Dīn ibn Mullā Muḥammad ʻAlī for all of the awrād of ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī. Signed with Ṣāliḥ al-Qādirī's stamp.

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Provenance

Ownership statement on fol. 1a by Sayyid Aḥmad walad Sayyid Muḥammad Yaḥyá Kaylānī [?] Rifāʻī Ḥalabī.

Source acquisition

Gift; The Gardner Magic Project in memory of David A. Gardner, Princeton Class of 1969. AM 2005-83.

Other title(s)

• Qurʼan. Selections
• قرآن.

OCLC

60356316

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