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Subject(s)

• Muslim saints—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Sufism—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Contains

• Kalābādhī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, 10th cent. Taʻarruf li-madhhab ahl al-taṣawwuf. [Browse]
• Qushayrī, ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin, 986-1072. Manthūr al-khiṭāb fī mashhūr al-abwāb. [Browse]
• Anṣārī al-Harawī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, 1006-1089. Manāzil al-sāʾirīn. [Browse]

Notes

• Fols. 148; 18.2 x 11.5 cm.; written surface 11-14.5 x 6-8 cm.; 13-20 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; with vowel signs; with catchwords; entries in red.
• A collection containing:
• 1. Kitāb al-Taʻarruf fī madhhab al-taṣawwuf, an introduction to Ṣūfism by Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Kalābādhi al-Bukhārī, A.H. 380 [A.D. 990/1]. See ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 316; Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 3027. Copy was made in A.H. 732 [A.D. 1332]. Incomplete at beginning. English translation by Arthur John Arberry, Cambridge, A.D. 1935.
• 2. Manthūr al-khiṭāb fī mashhūr al-abwāb, a short treatise on the virtues of saints by Abū al-Qāsim ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin al-Qushayrī, A.H. 465 [A.D. 1072]. See Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 3469. Copy was made in A.H. 740 [A.D. 1339]. Rare.
• 3. Manāzil al-sāʼirīn, a Ṣūfī manual by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismāʻīl al-Anṣārī al-ḥarawī, A.H. 481 [A.D. 1088/9]. See ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 129; Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 2826. Copy was made in A.H. 732 [A.D. 1332].
• MS in fair condition; worm-eaten and mended. Arabic cloth binding.
• Acquired from Bārūdī, Beirūt, A.D. 1925.

OCLC

1340424993

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