Ṣûfism and Ethics [IO Bijapur 411] منازل السائرين

Ṣûfism and Ethics.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 411 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 599 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

599.

B 411. Size 71/2 in. by 4 in.; foll. 81. Twelve lines in a page.

A treatise on Ṣûfism, called منازل السائرين , by Abu Ismâ’îl ‘ ABDALLAH HARAWÎ (d. A. H. 481). Cf. Ḥ. Kh. vi. 129; Flügel, Hdss. Wien, iii. 321; Cat. Bodl. ii. 579, etc. See regarding the author, Nafaḥât al-Uns, ed. Lees, p. ٣٧٦.

This MS. is slightly imperfect both at the beginning and end. The first words are:

يسيرا وصلوته (from the preface).

Plainly written in different hands, with numerous extracts from Kâshânî’s commentary on the margin.

Wrongly inscribed:

اوراق عين المعانى در علم اخلاق

[Bijapur Collection]