Details

Subject(s)

• Authority—Religious aspects—Islam [Browse]
• God (Islam)—Name—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Purity, Ritual—Islam [Browse]
• Sufism—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 786 [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• illuminated manuscripts [Browse]
• headpieces (layout features) [Browse]

Contains

• Niyazî, 1617 or 1618-1693 or 1694. İrşad-ı salikin. [Browse]
• نيازي، 1617 or 1618-1693 or 1694. ارشاد سالكين. [Browse]
• Niyazî, 1617 or 1618-1693 or 1694. Tevhid-i şerif. [Browse]
• نيازي، 1617 or 1618-1693 or 1694. توحيد شريف. [Browse]
• Halil bin İbrahim. Risalet ül-key. [Browse]
• خليل بن ابراهيم. رسالة الكي. [Browse]

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Layout: 15 lines per page.
• Description: Written in neat, medium script in black on glazed, laid European paper. Illuminated ʻunwān on fol. 1b in gold, blue, and orange; simple ʻunwāns in orange on fol. 13a, 23b. Text framed in gold on fol. 1b-2a; remainder of text framed in red. Rubrication and catchwords; a few text markers in gold and/or orange. Fol. 23a, 26b blank. Light staining and smudging; otherwise in excellent condition.
• Origin: Dated 1215 H. [1800 or 1801] by Muḥammad al-Kuraydī (fol. 26a).
• Incipit: [ارشاد سالكين] بو تركيچه رساله نك بو طرزه تسويدنه ايكى شىء باعث ... وبعد اكر بزه سؤال ايدرلرسه كه تصوفك ابتداسى ندر جواب ويرورز كه -- [توحيد شريف] لا اله الا الله معانى اول يعنى عبادته لائق الله تعاليدن غيرى يوقد -- [رسالة الكي] الحمد لله وحده ... وبعد فيقول العبد الفقير الجالس على حصير التقصير خليل بن ابراهيم الحقير لما سألني بعض الاحبة صانه الله تعالى عن البلية عن صاحب الكي هل يكون صاحب عذر ام لا

Binding note

Half-cloth with marbled paper covers and pastedowns.

Language note

Ottoman Turkish.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1b-12b: İrşad-ı salikin. Treatise on the principles of Sufism.
• 2. fol. 13a-22b: Tevhid-i şerif / hakkındah merhum kutbül'arifin Hazret Mısri Muhammed Efendi. Commentary on the beautiful names of God.
• 3. fol. 23b-26a: Risalet ül-key / Halil bin İbrahim. Treatise on whether the ritual purity of someone who has undergone cauterization has been impaired and whether taqlīd to law school other than the Hanafite is permitted. With brief introduction in Arabic.

Provenance

Owner's stamp of Mehmed Tevfik on fol. 1a.

Source acquisition

Purchase; Bouwman Oriental Books, 2011/09/07 (2012-16).

References

Tahir, M. Osmanli müellifleri, III, 173

Other title(s)

• Risale-yi Mısri.
• رسالۀ مصرى.

OCLC

756494578

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