Author
Ghazzālī, 1058-1111.
Publication Date
[Egypt?, 1900-1920?]
Subject
Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic /
Michigan, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan /
Ann Arbor., Sufism, Sufism /
Early works to 1800.
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
Unknown
Pages Count
54
Physical Dimensions
54 leaves : paper ; 162 x 108 mm. bound to 168 x 114 mm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
006833625
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: Careful copy of excerpts from Rawḍat al-ṭālibīn wa-ʻumdat al-sālikīn, a treatise on the principles of Ṣūfism attributed to the renowned al-Ghazālī (d.1111), attributed in an inscription penciled on the opening leaf (p.1) to Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad Zarrūq al-Burnusī al-Fāsī (d.1493). | Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 984
Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper suggests transcription in Egypt, perhaps first decade of the 20th century or shortly after. Eventually bound for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974).
Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. 133
Binding: Boards covered in black textured cloth ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a geometric pattern (resembling a scale pattern) in olive green or dull gold ; cover gold-stamped with "قواعد موفية [كذا]" ; sewn in white thread over two recessed cords ; overall in fairly good condition.
Support: Mainly lined / ruled wove paper, ledger style with a final gathering in machine laid paper with watermark of "GOUVERNEMENT EGYPTIEN" with star and crescent at center and other smaller crescents with three stars (see p.101 to close and compare Walz, "The Paper trade of Egypt and the Sudan," p.91).
Script: Naskh with influence of ruqʻah ; compact, modern hand in a thin to medium line ; partially but irregularly seriffed with right-sloping head-serif on occasional lām, slight effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, open and closed counters, pointing somewhat in strokes rather than distinct dots, final yāʼ usually unpointed ; some passages in ruqʻah.
Layout: Written mainly in 16 lines per page.
Collation: i, 3 IV(24), III (30), 2 IV(46), 2 II(54), i ; chiefly quaternions ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.
Explicit: "النفس وزين بالتقوى وايد بالهدى وهذب بالورع وغذي بالذكر والله تعالى اعلم"
Incipit: "فصل اعلم ان الوقوف مع الخلق والنفس حجاب عن الحق ورؤية الافعال شرك لان افعال العباد مضافة الى الله تعالى خلقا وايجادا والى العبد كسبا ليثاب على الطعاة ويعاقب على المعصية ..."
Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.1).
Ms. codex.
On upper pastedown, label with ex libris of James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974), stamped with inventory number, "Ex Libris | J. Heyworth-Dunne | D. Lit. (London) | No. 7928" ; UM Library inscription on p.3 "Dunning | Heyworth-Dunne | 6-13-51 | 71955" ; rare marginal glosses.
