Ṣûfism and Ethics [IO Islamic 1378]

Ṣûfism and Ethics. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1378 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 628 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 628. 1378. Size 153/4 in. by 10 in.; foll. 423. Twenty-three lines in a page. Two fragments of the great work on Mystic Theology, الفتوحات المكّيّة , by IBN ‘ARABÎ (Muḥyi al-dîn Muḥammad b. ‘Alî Andalusî, d. A.H. 638). See, for a full account of this work, Flügel, Hdss. Wien, iii. 361. Cf. Fleischer, Catal. Sen. Lips. 490. The first fragment (foll. 1-175) gives the beginning of the work as far as chapter 41. A blank at the beginning of fol. 40. A defect after fol. 65. Fol. 31 should be placed after 28. The second fragment (fol. 176v.) begins with chapter 197, الباب السابع و التسعون و مائة فى معرفة الذهاب and ends in chapter 304. Well written in a large hand, of the eleventh century. Cf. Stewart’s Catal. 139. [Tippu.]