Ṣûfism and Ethics [IO Bijapur 381]

Ṣûfism and Ethics.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 381 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 606 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

606.

B 381. Size 101/4 in. by 63/4 in.; foll. 207. At first twenty-three, afterwards mostly twenty-five lines in a page.

The first part (ربع العبادات) of the Iḥyâ, consisting of two separate volumes. The first, which concludes (fol. 163) with Book viii. (كتاب آداب تلاوة القران), is written in a clear steady hand, though without any vowel-points, of the ninth century. Only foll. 1-58 have been supplied at a modern date.

The second volume, which begins (fol. 164v.) with كتاب الاذكار و الدعوات, is older than the first, and may belong to the eighth or even the seventh century. It is written in a bold hand, often with vowel-points, and has occasional emendations. The end is slightly injured by insects.

This MS. was once the property of ‘Abd al-bâḳi b. Ḥusain Ḥusainî.