Prayers and charms [IO Islamic 1947] دلائل الخیرات

Prayers and charms.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1947 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 350 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

350.

1947. Size 93/4 in.by 51/4 in.; foll. 122. Nine lines in a page.

The celebrated Prayers for Muḥammad, called دلائل الخیرات , by Abu ‘Abdallah Muḥammad b. Sulaimân JAZÛLÎ Simlâlî Sharîf Ḥasanî, a Maghribî saint, who died on 16th Rabî I., 870 [= 06 November 1465 CE], at افوغال [al-Fughal].1  Cf.  Ḥ. Kh. iii. 235; Flügel, Hdss. Wien, iii. 146; Cat. Bodl., ii. 86; Cat. St. Petersb. 33; and Stewart, 175, iv. The work was printed at St. Petersburgh, 1842.

Well written in a large hand, with vowel-points. Marginal notes, mostly derived from the commentary of Fâsî, in the earlier portion. The drawings of the Mosque of Madînah are wanting, but there is a description in words instead.

Seal and signature of Muḥammad Khân Jahân, A.H. 1186 [= 1675-76 CE]. In an elegant Oriental binding.

[Tippu.]

1 These statements are from the commentary of Fâsî (see no. 354 [ed. note: see now Burak 2019]. Jazûlah is a Berber tribe in السوس الاقصی. It is also spelled قزولة (see Edrisi, Description de l’Afrique, par Dozy et De Goeje, p.v., 1. 10). Simlâlah is a branch of the same tribe.

[ed. note: see, Carl Brockelmann, History of the Arabic Written Tradition (Leiden: Brill, 2017), 2: 284-5. ISBN: 978-90-04-32631-6, Jāzūlī belonged to the Shādhilī Ṭarīqa (الطريقة الشاذلية)].

[ed. note: Jazūlī's remains are were transferred subsequently to مراكش].

[ed note: Quick link to other copies of the same work].