Ṣûfism and Ethics [IO Islamic 2177] الدرة الفاخرة

Ṣûfism and Ethics.  الدرة الفاخرة

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2177 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 670 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

670.

2177. Size 93/4 in. by 53/4. Seventeen lines in a page.

Foll. 1-15. A theosophic treatise on the Divine Essence, in which are reviewed the opinions of the Ṣûfîs, theologians, and philosophers. No title occurs in the work, but it has a recent inscription, درة فاخرة, which proves to be correct. The author is the celebrated ‘ABD AL-RAḤMÂN JÂMÎ (d. A.H. 898), who entitled this treatise الدرة الفاخرة . See  Ḥ. Kh. iii. 207; Flügel, Hdss. Wien, iii. 409; Stewart’s Catal. 141, xxix.

Well written. Additions of the author on the margin. Rubrics omitted.

Seal of Nuṣrat Jang.

[College of Fort William.]