Ṣûfism and Ethics [IO Islamic 2529]

Ṣûfism and Ethics. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2529 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 615 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 615. 2529. Size 113/4 in. by 8 in.; foll. 105. Nine lines in a page. The Arabic version of GHAZZÂLÎ’S نصيحة الملوك , or Advice to Kings. See Cat. Bodl. ii. 99, and Ḥ. Kh. vi. 352 sq. According to the latter, the work is entitled التبر المسبوك . The name of the translator is not known. The Persian original, which was dedicated to the Saljûḳ Sulṭân Muḥammad b. Malikshâh, is lost. Written in a large hand, with vowel-points. The greater part of text is accompanied by a Javanese translation, written in the Arabic character. The rest of the volume contains tracts in Javanese, written in the Arabic character.