[Commonplace book of prayers, amulets, and magic squares in Arabic and Turkish].

Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
  • Arabic
  • Turkish
Description
74 leaves : paper ; 190 x 128 mm. bound to 190 x 131 mm.

Details

Subject(s)
Getty AAT genre
Contains
Summary note
A collection of prayers, amulets, and magic squares; extracts and a magic square on the the pastedowns.
Notes
  • Ms. codex.
  • Physical description: 9-15 lines per page; written in naskh in black and red by different hands on tan Arabic paper. Catchwords; marginal notes and corrections. Qurʼānic verses and most prayers vocalized. Two inserts between fol. 34-35, one of which contains a magic square.
Binding note
Half leather with marbled paper covers and flap; yellow pastedowns.
Language note
Arabic and Ottoman Turkish.
Contents
  • 1. fol. 1a: [Magic square and amulet].
  • 2. fol. 1b-3a: [al-Ṣalāh al-Mashīshīyah].
  • 3. fol. 3b-15a: [Selections from the Qurʼān interspersed with supplications].
  • 4. fol. 15b-16a: [Two ḥadīths].
  • 5. fol. 16b-21a: [Collection of magic squares and amulets]. In Arabic and Ottoman Turkish.
  • 6. fol. 21b-23b: Ḍamīmah ʻalá Awrād al-fatḥīyah.
  • 7. fol. 23b-34a: Ḥizb al-fatḥīyah / [ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Hamadhānī].
  • 8. fol. 34a-35a: [Selections from the Qurʼān followed by a supplication].
  • 9. fol. 35a-37b: Ḥizb al-naṣr / [ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Shādhilī].
  • 10. fol. 37b-40b: Ḥizb al-luṭf / [ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Shādhilī].
  • 11. fol. 40b-41a: [Supplication containing Qurʼānic verses].
  • 12. fol. 41b-42b: Ḥizb al-tawaṣṣul / lil-Imām al-quṭb al-rabbānī Abī al-Ḥasan al-Shādhilī.
  • 13. fol. 42b-43b: Ḥizb al-ḥujub / lil-Shaykh Abī al-Ḥasan al-Shādhilī.
  • 14. fol. 43b-47b: Ḥizb al-fatḥ wa-yusammá Ḥizb al-anwār / [ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Shādhilī].
  • 15. fol. 47b-49a: Ḥizb al-falāḥ / lil-Shaykh Muḥammad al-Jazūlī al-Shādhilī.
  • 16. fol. 49a-52a: Kanz al-aʻẓam.
  • 17. fol. 52a-53b: Ḥirz Abī al-Dardāʼ.
  • 18. fol. 53b-54a: Ḥirz ʻaẓīm / lil-Imām al-Sanūsī.
  • 19. fol. 54a-54b: Duʻāʼ alladhī ʻallama Jibrīl Yūsuf.
  • 20. fol. 54b-55a: Ruʼyat al-Nabī.
  • 21. fol. 55a-57a: Ḥizb al-tawḥīd / al-Shādhilī.
  • 22. fol. 57a-58b: Ḥizb kimiyāʼ al-saʻādah / lil-Sanūsī.
  • 23. fol. 58b-59a: [Two short supplications].
  • 24. fol. 59b-64a: Dawr al-aʻlá / [Ibn al-ʻArabī]. Also known as Ḥizb al-wiqāyah.
  • 25. fol. 64a-65a: Ṣalawāt sharīf.
  • 26. fol. 65a-65b: Duʻāʼ Abū al-Saʻūd. Possibly referring to Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Abū al-Saʻūd (1492 or 3-1574 or 5).
  • 27. fol. 65b-67b: Ḥizb al-ṭams / lil-Shādhilī.
  • 28. fol. 67b-73b: [Supplications in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish].
  • 29. fol. 73b-74a: [Short prayers, amulets and magic squares, in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish].
Source acquisition
Purchase; Bouwman Oriental Books, 2011/05/02 (2011-97).
References
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 449; SI, 801; II, 253
Other title(s)
  • Qurʼan. Selections
  • .قرآن Selections.
  • Ḍamīmah ʻalá Awrād al-fatḥīyah.
  • ضميمة على اوراد الفتحية.
  • Kanz al-aʻẓam.
  • كنز الاعظم.
  • Ḥirz Abī al-Dardāʼ.
  • حرز ابي الدرداء.
  • Duʻāʼ Yūsuf.
  • دعاء يوسف.
  • Duʻāʼ ruʼyat al-Nabī.
  • دعاء رؤية النبي.
  • Duʻāʼ Abū al-Saʻūd.
  • دعاء ابو السعود.
OCLC
723228011
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