Author
Nābulusī, ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʻīl, 1641-1731, Nabulsi, Abd al-Ghani ibn Ismail
Author Original
نابلسي، عبد الغني بن اسماعيل
Publication Date
1852
Subject
ʻAbshamī, Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā ibn Sulṭān, -1640 or 1641. Risālah fī sulūk khāṣṣat al-sādah, Naqshabandīyah -- Early works to 1800, Sufism -- Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Arabic -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
88 leaves : paper ; 210 x 147 (165 x 83) mm
Library
University of Michigan Library
Library Asset ID
1194681805
Record ID
990067950640106381
Library Location
UM Ann Arbor Libraries, University Library
Date
1852
Notes
Ms. codex., Title from 'title page' (p.5)., Incipit: "Praise be to God who explained with the eternal manifestations the message of His attributes in death... As for what follows, he says the prisoner of sins... Abd al-Ghani bin Ismail al-Nabulsi, by lineage from the Hanafi school of thought, from a Qadri school of thought, from a Damascene school of thought, from a Damascus school of thought, and a Naqshbandi lineage, secretly and publicly... To explain the message translated from the Persian language into the Arabic language, attributed in plural and order to the perfect knower... Sheikh Taj al-Din Al-Naqshbani...which he compiled in Explaining the Etiquette of the Pure Naqshbandi Order...and I showed in this explanation what this sacred message contained in terms of the preserved secrets...and I called it the key to knowledge in the Naqshbandi Order...”, Explicit: “Until the Day of Judgment, which is the Day of Resurrection, and it has many names, and this is the last thing we are honored to have of serving this blessed message, may God benefit us with it...Amen”, Colophon: “Authorial,” reads “We have finished compiling this blessed explanation, God willing, on the morning of Friday the twenty-seventh of the blessed month of Ramadan in the year one thousand eighty-nine, at the hands of its despicable and poor compiler, Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi... Amen.” "Scribal," reads "The completion of writing this copy occurred on Thursday, the eleventh of the month of Shawwal in the year two hundred and one thousand sixty-eight completed", Collation: i, 8 V(80), IV (88), i ; almost exclusively quinions ; final leaf left blank ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts and flyleaves)., Layout: Written mainly in 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled., Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; elegant, spacious Turkish hand in a medium to bold line; serifless with many closed counters, characteristic descent of words to baseline, slight effect of tilt to the right, elongation of horizontal strokes, and letterforms characteristic of nastaʻlīq (talik); from about p.133 alternates with another hand, more compact though with elongation and contrasting thickness of horizontal strokes; some Qurʼānic excerpts in naskh., Decoration: Keywords, section headings, and abbreviation symbols rubricated; textual dividers in the form of red discs., Support: European wove paper., Binding: Pasteboards covered in a coated and textured (with floral pattern) sky blue decorative paper with dark brown (to black) leather over spine (now mostly gone exposing dark green textile of spine lining) ; Type III binding (without flap); board linings in yellow wove paper; sewn in red thread, two stations; overall in somewhat poor condition with significant abrasion, lifting and losses of paper and leather, delamination of boards, etc., Former shelfmark: From interior of upper cover and label on lower cover "IL 351" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip)., Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda (paginated pp.1-2) -- b. Between pp.74-75, what appears to be a cigarette paper printed with "MANUFACTURE DE TABACS ET CIGARETTES" and "sanitary paper" in blue and black., Origin: As appears in scribal colophon on p.177, transcription completed 11 Shawwāl 1268 [ca. 29 July 1852]. As appears in preceding authorial colophon (also on p.177), composition completed 27 Ramaḍān 1089 [ca. 12 November 1678]., Collation statement on front flyleaf (p.3) “Several pamphlets 9” ; marginal corrections (some rubricated)., Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 538
Sample Text
Elegant copy of the commentary by 'Abd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusi (d.1731) on the Naqshbandi treatise, Risālah fī suluk khāṣṣat al-sādah by Tāj al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā ibn Sultābṣān al-'A'd.
Son Dizinleme Tarihi
20251210
Biçim
Book, Manuscript, Available Online
Koleksiyonda
Yahuda Collection.
Referanslar
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II 347 (no.50) ; S II 473 ; II 419 ; S II 618
Elde Ediliş
Acquired in 1926 from the bookseller Isaac Benjamin S.E. Yahuda via purchase transacted on his behalf by Abraham Shalom Yahuda (1877-1951), his younger brother.
