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Daiber I Ms. 7

67 folios; 21×15 cm; 15-22 lines; naskhi; modern half-leather binding. Between fol.63v and 67r2 folios from another ms. are inserted (s. below). Copied 1098/1686 (fol.31v; 50v by al-Hajji Hasan Ibn Molla Muhammad) and 1097/1685 (643v by Mustafa Ibn Bakr).

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Contents

  1. [1]

    Cover and Preliminary leaves.

  2. [2] [1024] fol. 1r - 31v

    Bidayat al-hidaya بداية الهداية

    On this author (died 505/1111) and his treatise on religious ethics (composed afer his Ihya' ulum al-din إحياء علوم الدين ) see description of ms.265.

  3. [3] [1025] fol. 32v - 43v

    Hayat al-qulub li-ma yazulu bihi ilal al-jahl wa-al-dhunub حياة القلوب لما يزول به علل الجهل والذنوب

    The text is identical with mss. Berlin 1891 and 3142 and ms. Mingana (Birmingham) 1296. It is not mentioned in GAL and deals in seven chapters with the duties of the believer (see the description of ms. Berlin 1891 by AHLWARDT). Some folios contain glosses in the margin (esp.40v and 41r). Our ms. is the oldest copy of the text which must therefore have been composed before the 11th/17th century.

  4. [4] [1026] fol. 44r - 48v

    Fusul ashara فصول عشرة

    The author is not mentioned. Hajji Khalifa (Kashf al-zunun IV nr. 9093) and BURSALI MEHEMMED TAHIR, Osmanli Mü'ellifleri (Istanbul 1334/1915-1343/1924) I 18 mention Ibn Isa Ibn Majd al-Din al-Aqhisari al-Sarukhani ابن عيسى بن مجد الدين الأقحصاري الصاروخاني (died 967/1559) as author of such a work. It is a treatise on ritual purity and on prayer, in 10 chapters. It is not yet clear, whether the text should be identified with Ibn al-Majdi al-Qahiri al-Shafi'i ابن المجدي القاهري الشافعي (died 850/1447; see GAL S II 158), al-Fusul al-ashara الفصول العشرة (entered in GAL S III 1259, supplement to 159.10, nr. 28).

  5. [5] [1027] fol. 49v - 50v

    an explanation of iman إيمان , in six short chapters. Author and text are not mentioned by the bio-bibliographical sources. According to the colophon the text is copied by the author himself in the year 1098/1686.

  6. [6] [1028] fol. 52v - 63v

    An extract from a work on jurisprudence (fiqh فقه ). The text must be composed after the 11th/17th century fol. 61v mentions al-Qadi Abu Bakr Ibn al-Arabi القاضي أبو بكر بن العربي who wrote during the time of Murad IV whose reign was 1058-1099/1648-1687, Siraj al-muridin سراج المريدين . That title is not mentioned in GAL (S II 647), however by Hajji Khalifa, Kashf al-zunun III nr. 7081.

  7. [7] [1029] fol. 64r - 64v

    67r Some notes on the use of the Siwak سواك , a stick used for cleaning the teeth and on prescriptions for prayer.

  8. [8] [1030] fol. 65r - 66v

    Ayyuha al-walad أيها الولد

    A fragment. On the author (died 505/1111) and the text (= ed. TOUFIC SABBAGH, Al-Ghazali, Lettre au disciple, 2e éd. Beyrouth 1959, p.37, 11-45, 13) see GAL I 423 nr. 32 and S I 750 nr. 32.

  9. [9]

    Terminal leaves and Back cover.