مرآت الشهود في مسئلة وحدة الوجود.

Mir'at üş-şühut fi meselet vahdet il-vücut ... [etc.].

Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
  • Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928)
  • Arabic
  • Persian
  • Turkish
Translated from
Arabic
Published/​Created
[1905-1906]
Description
31 leaves : paper ; 230 x 179 mm bound to 230 x 183 mm

Details

Subject(s)
Contains
Summary note
Collection of Turkish poetry and Sufi texts; with two inserts: one contains poetry; the other is a newspaper clipping with a poem by Mehmet Akif.
Notes
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title from text 1, fol. 1b.
  • Physical description: Varying lines per page; written in small ruqʻah in black on lined machine-made paper. Catchwords. Fol. 28a-31b written upside-down. Some staining, particularly on first four leaves; edges curled and somewhat ragged. In good condition.
  • Origin: Text 1 dated 14 Mart 1322 [27 March 1906] (fol. 1a). Text 4 is dated with both Hijri and Rumi dates which do not correspond: 10 Muḥarram 1324 H [6 March 1906]; 22 Şubat 1321 [7 March 1905] (fol. 20a).
  • Incipit (text 3): السفر عند اهل الحق عبارة عن سير القلب اخذه في التوجه الى الله و الاسفار اربعة
  • Incipit (text 5): ... قال .. الشرىعة کالسفىنة والطرىقة کالبحر
Binding note
Marbled paper covers.
Language note
Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, and Persian.
Contents
  • 1. fol. 1a: [Panegyric for the compiler's friend, Mustafa Fevzi bin Numan].
  • 2. fol. 1b-15a: [Risale-yi] Mir'at üş-şühut fi meselet vahdet il-vücut / Mustafa Fevzi bin Numan. Treatise on Sufi doctrine and practice in Turkish verse; incomplete at end: corresponds to p. 2-36 of the published edition.
  • 3. fol. 15b-18a: [Treatise on Sufi stations] / Şeyh Mehmet Sıddik el-meşhur bi-İbn en-Neccar. The fāʼidah given for the term "safar" from ʻAbd al-Munʻim's Muʻjam al-muṣṭalaḥāt wa-al-alfāẓ al-fiqhīyah, followed by a Turkish translation and explanation.
  • 4. fol. 18b-20a: [Selection of verses by Jāmī, followed by a commentary in Turkish] / Hoca Mehmet Alemî.
  • 5. fol. 20b-21a: [Risālah fī ʻilm al-sulūk] / Nazhmiddin Kubro. A treatise on the stages of the soul; in this ms., mistitled "Risālah-i ṭariqat lil-Shaykh ... Mawlānā Muḥyī al-Dīn al-ʻArabī." In Arabic.
  • 6. fol. 21b-22a: [Turkish poetry].
  • 7. fol. 22b-25a: [Sufi mandalas]. In Turkish.
  • 8. fol. 28a: Tavali ül-müluk. Astrological predictions for the year 1331 H [1912-13].
  • 9. fol. 28b: Nuqila ʻan Imām al-Fazānī [?]. Divinatory poem in Arabic.
  • 10. fol. 29a-30a: [Poem] / Mehmet Akif. In Turkish; originally published in Sebil ür-reşad.
  • 11. fol. 30b-31b: [Poem written in 925 H]. In Turkish.
References
Brockelmann, GAL, I, 569 (no. 4); SI, 787.
Other format(s)
Text 2 published (Istanbul, 1320 [1903 or 1904]).
Other title(s)
  • Sufi mandalas.
  • Tavali ül-müluk.
  • طوالع الملوك.
OCLC
826033102
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