Prayers and Charms [IO Bijapur 435] Maghribī treatise on use of the Qur'ān for prayers

Prayers and Charms.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 435 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 344 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

344.

B 435. Size 7 in. by 31/2 in.; foll. 101. Twenty-one lines in a page.

A treatise on the efficacious use of the Koran for prayers and charms. It is defective and much injured at the beginning. The author appears to be a Maghribî, who wrote in the eighth century. He quotes Ghazzâlî, Shâdhilî (d. A.H. 656), and various Maghribî authorities.

This treatise follows the order of the Sûrahs, expounding the properties of each. It concludes:

فهذه نبذة من اسرار القران العظیم من دعا بها ورعاها حق رعایتها ظهر له العجائب و الغرائب الخ

Written in a small but clear hand, with frequent indications of the contents on the margin. The first portion and the last leaf are supplied in a different hand.

Stained.

Inscribed (fol. 5):

این اجزا اسرار القران در علم دعوت

Cf. Catal. 233, vi.