Ṣûfism and Ethics [IO Islamic 2051]

Ṣûfism and Ethics. 

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2051 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 675 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

675.

2051. Size 93/4 in. by 63/4 in.; foll. 360. Nineteen lines in a page.

‘Abd al-wahhâb b. Aḥmad SHA’RÂNÎ’S (d. A.H. 976) اليواقيت و الجواهر فى بيان عقائد الاكابر , or system of Mystic Theology, which he composed A.H. 955. It has been fully analysed by Flügel in Zeitschr. d. Deutsch. morgenl. Gesellsch. xx. 1 sqq.; see also Hdss. Wien, iii. 391, and Cat. Mus. Brit. 106. The work was printed at Cairo, A.H. 1277.

This copy is preceded by an index. It is written in Nasta’liḳ. Date, Sha’bân, 1097. The paper is flimsy and injured in several places.

Some leaves are misplaced in binding: foll. 102-7 should be placed after fol. 83, and fol. 101 between foll. 138 and 139; foll. 337 and 342 should be transposed.

[College of Fort William, 1825.]