An anonymous treatise on the interpretation of dreams

Name: An anonymous treatise on the interpretation of dreams
Author: earliest surviving Arabic dream manual. The text also contains a large number of anecdotes and poetic excerpts. The copy consists of the second half of an index

İsim	An anonymous treatise on the interpretation of dreams
Yazar	earliest surviving Arabic dream manual. The text also contains a large number of anecdotes and poetic excerpts. The copy consists of the second half of an index
Basım Tarihi:	719 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Tür	Kitap
Dil	Arapça
Dijital	Evet
Yazma	Evet
Sayfa Sayısı	1
Fiziksel Boyutlar	248 x 180 mm
Kütüphane:	Katar Dijital Kütüphanesi
Demirbaş Numarası	Or 14221
Kayıt Numarası	vdc_100073295301.0x000001
Lokasyon	British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Tarih	719 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Notlar	A manual on the interpretation of dreams. The scribe (and 'compiler'?: كاتبه ومحرّره ) is ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Rahmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Muqrī al-Ḥanafī (عبد الله بن عبد الرحمن بن عبد الله المقري الحنفي, see colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. , f. 477r, lines 8-17, transcribed below). The date of copying (تبع [!] مائة) can be read 12 Rabīʿ I 719/1319 or 919/1513, with the former interpretation preferred on palaeographic grounds. Many of the interpretations are introduced with isnād -like chains of authority which often invoke Abū Saʿd: presumably Abū Sa'd Naṣr ibn Yaʿqūb al-Dīnawarī (أبو سعد نصر بن يعقوب الدينوري; d. c. 1010), who in 1008 composed a massive dream manual dedicated to the ʿAbbasid Caliph al-Qādir bi-llāh (القادر بالله, r. 991-1031). The overall structure of the present copy, with its 59 chapters, resembles that of Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn Ḥasan ibn Ibrāhīm al-Khalīlī al-Dārī ( أبو علي الحسين بن حسن بن إبراهيم الخليلي الداري, fl. ca 11th-13th century). A number of other individuals are mentioned within the text, including Ibn Sīrīn (ابن سيرين, d.728), the earliest famous interpreter of dreams in the Islamic era to whom a number of later dream manuals are attributed, and Ibn Qutaybah ( ابن قتيبة, d. 889), author of the earliest surviving Arabic dream manual. The text also contains a large number of anecdotes and poetic excerpts. The copy consists of the second half of an index (f. 1r) and an introductory section (f. 2v-22r), followed by 59 chapters of differing lengths that discuss the meaning of various dream subjects (ff. 22r- 477r). In accordance with this conservative tradition, the chapters are heirarchically organised, starting with dreams concerning God, the prophets and angels, Islam and the Qur'an, and continuing to ethics (ritual purity, greetings, pilgrimage, charity and fasting, heaven, hell, and the jinn). A long chapter (Chapter 22, ff. 75r-102v) details dreams about different parts of the body, followed by further chapters concerning matters of human existence and social life such as speech, illnesses, eating, drinking, and clothing, kings, war, the crafts and hunting (to f. 231r). The next few chapters (37-44, from f. 231r to f. 371v) discuss dreams relating to natural phenomena including insects, the stars, the weather, trees, metals, the sea, and fire. The final section from Chapters 45 to the end (ff. 371v- 477r) covers a miscellany of subjects such as writing, sleep, furniture, marriage, and business transactions. The manuscript circulated within Sufi contexts, as suggested by the waqf notices of the Takiyya of Abū Bakr in Aleppo (Watenpaugh, The Image of an Ottoman City: Imperial Architecture and Urban Experience in Aleppo in the 16th and 17th Centuries [Leiden: Brill, 2004] and Watenpaugh, 'Deviant dervishes: Space, gender, and the construction of antinomian piety in Ottoman Aleppo', International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies , 37 [2005]) and a reading note by a member of another Sufi order in Aleppo, the Rifāʾiyyah (f. iv-r). Other marginalia include a note referencing the chapter 'On Hope and Fear' from the Iḥyāʾ ʿUlūm al-Dīn (إحياء علوم الدين) of Abū Hāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazālī (أبو حامد محمد بن محمد الغزالي, f. 3v), and a line of poetry in another hand which appears on f.160v, repeated on ff. 174v, 246v and 291v: المنام كالطير كيفما قص وقع من سبق الخير إلى المنام فهو الخير Begins (f. 2v, lines 2-3 and 19): الحمد لله الذي خلق آدم من طين ثم خلق فيه روحًا واصطفاه للرسالة كما اصطفى إدريس من بعده ونوحًا واتخذ إبراهيم خليلًا وموسى كليمًا [...] وأردت أن أجمع كتابًا يشتمل على علم يظهر به المغيبات Ends (f. 477r, lines 2-7): ولو رأى أنه أصاب نارًا في وعاءٍ أو حرزها فإنه مال حرام فإن رأى بيده شعلةً من نارٍ فإنه يصيب شعبةً من سلطان فإن كان لها لهب أو دخان كان في سلطانه ذلك حربٌ وهول والله أعلم بالصواب والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمدٍ وآله وصحبه أجمعين وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل Colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 477r, lines 8-17): وكان الفراغ من كتابته يوم السبت اثنتي عشرة ليلةً خلت من شهر ربيع الأول من شهور سنة تسع عشرة وتبع [!] مائة كاتبه ومحرّره عبد الله بن عبد الرحمن بن عبد الله المقري الحنفي حامدًا لله ومصليًا على رسوله محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم غفر الله له ولمن كان السبب في نقله وكتابته ولوالديه ولجميع المسلمين آمين وآخر دعوانا أن الحمد لله رب العالمين اللهم أحسن العاقبة في الدنيا والآخرة واختم لنا بخير يا رب العالمين آمين ما شاء الله كان وما لم يشأ لم يكن ولا حول ولا قوة إلا بالله العلي العظيم
Erişim Koşulları	Unrestricted
Edinme Kaynağı	Purchased from Christie's on 11 June 1984 (lot 139)
Köken	Waqf notices naming the Takiyya of Abū Bakr in Aleppo (ff. 28v-29r; 211v); ʿUmar Nūrī al-Wafāʾī ibn Muḥammad ʿAlī Dādah al-Rifāʾī (عمر نوري الوفائي ابن محمد علي داده الرفائي), his reading note, with place (Aleppo) and date 2 Mārt/Māyis [12]94 in the Ottoman Rūmī calendar, equivalent to 1878 (flyleaf iv-r).
Seçilmiş kaynakça	Lamoreaux, John C.,'Some Notes on the Dream Manual of al-Dārī', Revista Degli Studi orientali, 70 (1996), pp. 47-52. Lamoreaux, John C., The early Muslim tradition of dream interpretation (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002). Sirriyeh, Elizabeth, Dreams & visions in the world of Islam: a history of Muslim dreaming and foreknowing (London: I.B. Tauris, 2015). Watenpaugh, Heghnar, The Image of an Ottoman City: Imperial Architecture and Urban Experience in Aleppo in the 16th and 17th Centuries (Leiden: Brill, 2004). Watenpaugh, Heghnar, 'Deviant dervishes: Space, gender, and the construction of antinomian piety in Ottoman Aleppo', International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies , 37 (2005).

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An anonymous treatise on the interpretation of dreams

Yazar earliest surviving Arabic dream manual. The text also contains a large number of anecdotes and poetic excerpts. The copy consists of the second half of an index

Basım Tarihi 719 (AH, Hijri qamari)

Tür Kitap

Dil Arapça

Dijital Evet

Yazma Evet

Sayfa Sayısı 1

Fiziksel Boyutlar 248 x 180 mm

Kütüphane Katar Dijital Kütüphanesi

Demirbaş Numarası Or 14221

Kayıt Numarası vdc_100073295301.0x000001

Lokasyon British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Tarih 719 (AH, Hijri qamari)

Notlar A manual on the interpretation of dreams. The scribe (and 'compiler'?: كاتبه ومحرّره ) is ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Rahmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Muqrī al-Ḥanafī (عبد الله بن عبد الرحمن بن عبد الله المقري الحنفي, see colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. , f. 477r, lines 8-17, transcribed below). The date of copying (تبع [!] مائة) can be read 12 Rabīʿ I 719/1319 or 919/1513, with the former interpretation preferred on palaeographic grounds. Many of the interpretations are introduced with isnād -like chains of authority which often invoke Abū Saʿd: presumably Abū Sa'd Naṣr ibn Yaʿqūb al-Dīnawarī (أبو سعد نصر بن يعقوب الدينوري; d. c. 1010), who in 1008 composed a massive dream manual dedicated to the ʿAbbasid Caliph al-Qādir bi-llāh (القادر بالله, r. 991-1031). The overall structure of the present copy, with its 59 chapters, resembles that of Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn Ḥasan ibn Ibrāhīm al-Khalīlī al-Dārī ( أبو علي الحسين بن حسن بن إبراهيم الخليلي الداري, fl. ca 11th-13th century). A number of other individuals are mentioned within the text, including Ibn Sīrīn (ابن سيرين, d.728), the earliest famous interpreter of dreams in the Islamic era to whom a number of later dream manuals are attributed, and Ibn Qutaybah ( ابن قتيبة, d. 889), author of the earliest surviving Arabic dream manual. The text also contains a large number of anecdotes and poetic excerpts. The copy consists of the second half of an index (f. 1r) and an introductory section (f. 2v-22r), followed by 59 chapters of differing lengths that discuss the meaning of various dream subjects (ff. 22r- 477r). In accordance with this conservative tradition, the chapters are heirarchically organised, starting with dreams concerning God, the prophets and angels, Islam and the Qur'an, and continuing to ethics (ritual purity, greetings, pilgrimage, charity and fasting, heaven, hell, and the jinn). A long chapter (Chapter 22, ff. 75r-102v) details dreams about different parts of the body, followed by further chapters concerning matters of human existence and social life such as speech, illnesses, eating, drinking, and clothing, kings, war, the crafts and hunting (to f. 231r). The next few chapters (37-44, from f. 231r to f. 371v) discuss dreams relating to natural phenomena including insects, the stars, the weather, trees, metals, the sea, and fire. The final section from Chapters 45 to the end (ff. 371v- 477r) covers a miscellany of subjects such as writing, sleep, furniture, marriage, and business transactions. The manuscript circulated within Sufi contexts, as suggested by the waqf notices of the Takiyya of Abū Bakr in Aleppo (Watenpaugh, The Image of an Ottoman City: Imperial Architecture and Urban Experience in Aleppo in the 16th and 17th Centuries [Leiden: Brill, 2004] and Watenpaugh, 'Deviant dervishes: Space, gender, and the construction of antinomian piety in Ottoman Aleppo', International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies , 37 [2005]) and a reading note by a member of another Sufi order in Aleppo, the Rifāʾiyyah (f. iv-r). Other marginalia include a note referencing the chapter 'On Hope and Fear' from the Iḥyāʾ ʿUlūm al-Dīn (إحياء علوم الدين) of Abū Hāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazālī (أبو حامد محمد بن محمد الغزالي, f. 3v), and a line of poetry in another hand which appears on f.160v, repeated on ff. 174v, 246v and 291v: المنام كالطير كيفما قص وقع من سبق الخير إلى المنام فهو الخير Begins (f. 2v, lines 2-3 and 19): الحمد لله الذي خلق آدم من طين ثم خلق فيه روحًا واصطفاه للرسالة كما اصطفى إدريس من بعده ونوحًا واتخذ إبراهيم خليلًا وموسى كليمًا [...] وأردت أن أجمع كتابًا يشتمل على علم يظهر به المغيبات Ends (f. 477r, lines 2-7): ولو رأى أنه أصاب نارًا في وعاءٍ أو حرزها فإنه مال حرام فإن رأى بيده شعلةً من نارٍ فإنه يصيب شعبةً من سلطان فإن كان لها لهب أو دخان كان في سلطانه ذلك حربٌ وهول والله أعلم بالصواب والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمدٍ وآله وصحبه أجمعين وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل Colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 477r, lines 8-17): وكان الفراغ من كتابته يوم السبت اثنتي عشرة ليلةً خلت من شهر ربيع الأول من شهور سنة تسع عشرة وتبع [!] مائة كاتبه ومحرّره عبد الله بن عبد الرحمن بن عبد الله المقري الحنفي حامدًا لله ومصليًا على رسوله محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم غفر الله له ولمن كان السبب في نقله وكتابته ولوالديه ولجميع المسلمين آمين وآخر دعوانا أن الحمد لله رب العالمين اللهم أحسن العاقبة في الدنيا والآخرة واختم لنا بخير يا رب العالمين آمين ما شاء الله كان وما لم يشأ لم يكن ولا حول ولا قوة إلا بالله العلي العظيم

Erişim Koşulları Unrestricted

Edinme Kaynağı Purchased from Christie's on 11 June 1984 (lot 139)

Köken Waqf notices naming the Takiyya of Abū Bakr in Aleppo (ff. 28v-29r; 211v); ʿUmar Nūrī al-Wafāʾī ibn Muḥammad ʿAlī Dādah al-Rifāʾī (عمر نوري الوفائي ابن محمد علي داده الرفائي), his reading note, with place (Aleppo) and date 2 Mārt/Māyis [12]94 in the Ottoman Rūmī calendar, equivalent to 1878 (flyleaf iv-r).

Seçilmiş kaynakça Lamoreaux, John C.,'Some Notes on the Dream Manual of al-Dārī', Revista Degli Studi orientali, 70 (1996), pp. 47-52. Lamoreaux, John C., The early Muslim tradition of dream interpretation (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002). Sirriyeh, Elizabeth, Dreams & visions in the world of Islam: a history of Muslim dreaming and foreknowing (London: I.B. Tauris, 2015). Watenpaugh, Heghnar, The Image of an Ottoman City: Imperial Architecture and Urban Experience in Aleppo in the 16th and 17th Centuries (Leiden: Brill, 2004). Watenpaugh, Heghnar, 'Deviant dervishes: Space, gender, and the construction of antinomian piety in Ottoman Aleppo', International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies , 37 (2005).