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Daiber I Ms. 357

463 loose folios; 16×22 cm; 23 lines; maghribi. Single words sometimes in red, yellow or blue ink. Lacunas in the text and some folios may be disordered. Different kinds of paper. Binding damaged; red leather cover with vignettes. Hand of the end 13th/19th century.

IIIF Collection

Contents

  1. [1] fol. 1r

    Cover and Preliminary leaves.

  2. [2] [1827] fol. 1v

    A short poem on the interpretation of the word ilahun إله . Incomplete at the end.

  3. [3] [1828] fol. 2r - 225v

    A long fragment of a work about religious duties and Islamic belief (part I). The text contains many chapters (bab باب ) and subsections (fasl فصل ); we mention here fol. 10 fasl fi bayan al-iman wa-al-islam wa-al-ihsan فصل في بيان الإيمان والإسلام والإحسان . fol. 13r Bab fi ta'rif al-ridda wa-ahkamiha باب في تعريف الردة وأحكامها . fol. 20 Bab fi al-tahara wa-aqsamiha wa-ahkamiha باب في الطهارة وأقسامها وأحكامها . fol. 36v Bab fi al-kalam ala al-salat wa-ma yata'allaqu biha min al-ahkam باب في الكلام على الصلاة وما يتعلق بها من الأحكام . fol. 172v Bab fi fadl al-haqq wa-ma yata'allaqu biha min al-ahkam باب في فضل الحق وما يتعلق بها من الأحكام . etc. On fol. 155v the text cites al-Kharashi الخرشي (died 1101/1689; see GAL II 84, 1n); therefore it must have been written later.

  4. [4] [1829] fol. 227v - 361v

    A fragment of introductory work about principles of mysticism. Fol.354-361 are misplaced and belong perhaps to another work. - Fol.274r cites the Tuhfat al-salikin تحفة السالكين = Tuhfat al-salikin wa-dalalat al-sa'irin li-nahj al-muqarrabin تحفة السالكين ودلالة السائرين لنهج المقربين by Muhammad Ibn Hasan Ibn Muhammad al-Samannudi al-Azhari محمد بن حسن بن محمد السمنودي الأزهري (died 1199/1785; GAL II 353; S II 479). Therefore our text must be composed in the 12-13th/18-19th century.

  5. [5] [1830] fol. 362r - 446r

    A work about religious traditions and duties; titleless. Fol.422v mentions Sulayman Ibn Abd al-Wahhab سليمان بن عبد الوهاب , a grandson of al-Imam Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Wahhab الإمام محمد بن عبد الوهاب who died 1206/1791 (GAL S II 530-2).

  6. [6] [1831] fol. 448v - 463r

    A devotional book, without author and title. Incomplete at the end. All texts cite late authors. Therefore they may go back to one compiler. It is possible that this compiler wrote in North Africa in the late 12th/18th century.

  7. [7]

    Terminal leaves and Back cover.