Author
the Sufi poet and scholar Muṣṭafá Asʿad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muhammad al-Dimyāṭī al-Luqaymī [or al-Laqīmī]
Publication Date
Early 19th century (CE, Gregorian)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Physical Dimensions
207 x 151mm
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Or 7712
Record ID
vdc_100110632083.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
Early 19th century (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
Travel narrative composed in 1164/1751 by the Sufi poet and scholar Muṣṭafá Asʿad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Dimyāṭī al-Luqaymī [or al-Laqīmī] (مصطفى أسعد بن أحمد بن محمد الدمياطي اللقيمي, 1694-1764). The title appears at f. 2r, lines 26-27. The paper used for the copy bears a watermark of a crowned shield with legend LIBERTAS on a banner and the word VORNO, indicating it was manufactured in Vorno, near Lucca, Italy, possibly at the Tegrimi paper mill. Many watermarked papers of this design are documented dating to the mid 18th century, with some earlier examples also recorded [see memoryofpaper.eu].
The text records the author's trip to Jerusalem, where he spent more than two months visiting shrines and the Ḥaram complex. He departed Damietta on 8 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 1143/15 May 1731 (see f. 2v, lines 7-8), and arrived back on 10 Jumādá I 1144/10 November 1731 (see f. 115r, lines 9-10).
The work is replete with digressions, poetry and excerpts from the writings of earlier writers of
ziyārah
and pilgrimage texts such as al-Suyūṭī (السيوطي, d. 1505) and ʿAbd al-Ghānī al-Nābulusī (عبد الغاني النابلسي, d. 1731).
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-4):
الحمد لله الملك القدوس باعث لطائف النفوس شوقا لزيارة القدس المحروس
وأثار لها بالوجد أشجانا جدوا بالعزم المسير وشمروا عن ساق
الجد من غير تقصير...
Ends (f. 117v, lines 20-23):
...صلوة يفوح بالخافقين
عرف نشرها وينشر في الآفاق عبير عطرها ما مدح السفر
وحمد المقام وطاب الابتداء وحسن الختام
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Bulma Yardımcıları
Ellis, A.G. and Edward Edwards,
A Descriptive List of the Arabic Manuscripts Acquired by the Trustees of the British Museum since 1894
(London: British Museum, 1912), p. 37
Edinme Kaynağı
Purchased from Murad Baroody (Murād al-Bārūdī), 13 April 1912
Köken
Sayyid Muḥammad Saʿīd [...] al-Ḥusaynī al-Dimashqī (سيد محمد سعيد [...] الحسيني الدمشقي): his ownership note, with date 1 Rabīʿ I [1]282/25 July 1865
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Editions:
Luqaymī, Muṣṭafá ibn Aḥmad,
Mawāniḥ al-uns bi-riḥlatī ilá Wadī al-Quds
, ed. by ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Shabrāwī (al-Qāhirah: Manshūrāt ʿAlāʾ Sarḥān, Dār al-Risālah, 2013)
Luqaymī, Muṣṭafá ibn Aḥmad,
Tahdhīb Mawāniḥ al-uns bi-riḥlatī ilá Wadī al-Quds
, ed. by Riyāḍ ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd Murād (Dimashq: Wizārat al-Thaqāfah, 2012)
Luqaymī, Muṣṭafá ibn Aḥmad,
Mawāniḥ al-uns bi-riḥlatī li-Wadī al-Quds: Muṣṭafá Asʿad al-Luqaymī al-Ḥasanī, Sibṭ ibn Ghānim al-Maqdīsī al-Saʿdī al-Khazrājī
, ed. by Taysīr Khalaf (Dimashq: Dār Kanʻān lil-Dirāsāt wa-al-Nashr wa-al-Khidmāt al-Iʻlāmīyah, 2010)
The Memory of Paper database: https://memoryofpaper.eu/BernsteinPortal/appl_start.disp
