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Daiber I Ms. 36

75 folios; 20×14,5 cm; 10-15 lines; naskhi. Modern half-leather binding. Hand of the early 13th/19th century. - Fol.52r mentions Rajab 1268/April 1852; fol.75r the year 1247/1831 and the copyist Umar al-Miskin Ibn Husayn al-Ukawi (also mentioned 57v and - as Abd al-Ahqar Molla Umar - on fol. 52r).

IIIF Collection

Contents

  1. [1]

    Cover and Preliminary leaves.

  2. [2] [1154] fol. 1v - 52r

    Manzuma منظومة

    A poetical explanation of theological terms. On the author (died 981/1573) see GAL II 440 and S II 654). The text cannot be identified with one of those mentioned by BROCKELMANN (GAL).

  3. [3] [1155] fol. 52v - 57v

    Wasiya وصية

    On this creed see F. SEZGIN, GAS I, 1967, p.416 nr. V. Cf. also ms. nr. 19.

  4. [4] [1156] fol. 58v - 75v

    Qasidat Siraj al-tariqa قصيدة سراج الطريقة

    The author and this mystical poem are mentioned in Isma'il Pasha al-Baghdadi إسماعيل باشا البغدادي (died 1339/1920), Idah al-maknun fi al-dhayl ala kashf al-zunun إيضاح المكنون في الذيل على كشف الظنون (a supplement to Hajji Khalifa, Kashf al-zunun) ed. RIFAT BILGE II, Istanbul 1945, p.7 (with the additional nisba al-Rumi الرومي ). Nothing is known about the author; according to the colophon (fol. 75r, 10-75v, 1) he belonged to the school of the Hanafites and Maturidites and was a member of the Naqshbandiya-order.

  5. [5]

    Terminal leaves and Back cover.