Ṣûfism and Ethics [IO Bijapur 449] [?] العقد الفريد

Ṣûfism and Ethics.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 449 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 661 here with notations and hyperlinks].

661.

B 449. Size 8 in. by 6 in.; foll.59. Twenty-five lines in a page.

A fragment of a work on Ethics and Politics, which, according to its subdivisions, seems to be العقد الفريد , by MUḤAMMAD B. ṬALḤAH Ḳurashî1 (d. A.H. 652 = 1254-55 CE) [= Abū Sālim al-Naṣībī, Muḥammad ibn Ṭalḥah]. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. iv. 232; Casiri i. 215 [= Miguel Casiri, Bibliotheca Arabico-Hispana Escurialensis (2 vols, Madrid, 1760–1770)]; Catal. Mus. Brit. 659.

This fragment begins near the end of the first part (قاعدة), with the words:

فلما رآنى قد تقربت منه.

Fol. 5v. begins the second part as follows:

 القاعدة الثانية فى السلطنة و الولايات

A defect after fol. 47. The rest complete.

Written alternately by two hands. Corrections, and the various readings of another MS., are added on the margin.

Signature of ‘Abd al-raḥmân b. al-‘Aidarûs on the last page.

1 Ḥ. Kh. calls him Abu Sâlim M.b.Ṭ. Ḳurashî Niṣîbî, the Wazîr. Casiri gives his name as Shams al-dîn Abu ‘Abdallah M. b. Ṭ. Miṣrî Shâfi’î.

[ed. note: The author appears to be Abū Sālim al-Naṣībī, Muḥammad ibn Ṭalḥah, 1186 or 1187-1254 or 1255; found also as Abū Sālim Kamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ṭalḥah ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Qurashī al-ʻAdawī al-Naṣībī al-Shāfiʻī (d. AH 652)].

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