An amulet on long scroll of vellum or snake skin, rolled around a central axis into a silver hexagonal tube with a cap; niello etched in an arabesque pattern in gold, with three loops where a chain can go through, so that it can be worn as a necklace. The scroll is written in a long central column surrounded by eight different rectangular compartments in different colors. The central column contains Surat al-Qadr (Qurʼan: Chapter 97), followed by Surāt al-Fātiḥat (Qurʼan: Chapter 1), followed by the Creator's verse of Sūrat al-Ḥajj (Qurʼan: Chapter 22:65), followed by a long invocation asking God for help and guidance, followed by a Shiʻī invocation asking for the intecession of Imām ʻAlī, followed by a magic square. The amulet is meant to have magical powers to protect the owner. Name of copyist (and/or creator) and place and date of copying/and or production not mentioned, probably from the 18th or 19th century
Description:
In Arabic., Incipit: Starts with Sūrat al-Qadr (Qurʼan: Chapter 97): "Innā anzalnāhu fī Laylat al-Qadr ...", Title supplied by cataloger., Romanization supplied by cataloger., 39.5 x 6 cm., and The central part of the amulet is written in ruqʻah/naskh script and the compartments in thulth script, in black, blue, red and gold.
Ibn ʻAbbād, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, 1332 or 1333-1390 ابن عباد، محمد بن إبراهيم، 1332 or 1333-1390
Published / Created:
1717.
Call Number:
Hartford Seminary Arabic MSS 489
Image Count:
464
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
"Ghayth al-mawāhib al-ʻalīyah bi-Sharḥ al-Ḥikam al-ʻAṭāʼīyah" (also called "Sharḥ al-Nafazī ʻalá matn al-Sakandarī"), by Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAbbād al-Ḥimyarī al-Nafazī al-Rundī (1332 or 1333-1390.), a Ṣūfī and scholar from the city of Rundah (Ronda, Má́laga, Spain), who journeyed in cities of al-Maghrib and resided in Fès (Morocco) where he assumed the position of "khaṭīb" (preacher) at Jāmiʻ al-Qarawīyīn, and died there, being a commentary on "al-Ḥikam al-ʻAṭāʼīyah", a collection of Sufi and mystical aphorisms of Tāj al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAṭāʼ Allāh al-Sakandarī (died 1309 in Cairo), an Egyptian Shādhilī and Ṣūfī scholar and author, an ardent opponent of the well-known Ḥanbalī scholar Ibn Taymīyah (Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm, 1263-1328). Copied on Thursday, 19 Shaʻbān, 1129 of the Hijrah (29 July, 1717). Name of copyist and place of copying not mentioned
Alternative Title:
Kitāb Sharḥ al-Ḥikam, Sharḥ al-Ḥikam al-ʻAṭāʼīyah, كتاب شرح الحكم, and شرح الحكم العطائية
Description:
In Arabic., Title from reference sources., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Rabbi yassir. Qāla al-ʻabd al-faqīr ilá Allāh taʻālá, al-muʻtamid fī ghufrān dhunūbihi ʻalá Allāh taʻālá, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAbbād al-Nafazī al-ʻArsawī [?], laṭafa Allāh taʻālá bi-hi wa-raḥimahu wa-ghafara la-hu. Āmīn: al-Ḥamdu lillāh al-munfarid bi-al-ʻaẓamah wa-al-jalāl, al-mutawaḥḥid bi-istiḥqāq nuʻūt al-kamāl, al-munazzah ʻan al-shurakāʼ wa-al-nuẓarāʼ wa-al-amthāl, al-mutaqaddis ʻan simāh [simāt] al-ḥadath min al-taghyīr wa-al-intiqāl wa-al-ittiṣāl wa-al-infiṣāl, ʻālim al-ghayb wa-al-shahādah, al-kabīr al-mutaʻāl, wa-al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad al-hādī min al-ḍalāl ...", Secundo folio: ḥaqāʼiquhā illā bi-al-talaqqī., 15.5 x 20.5 cm; written surface: 9.5 x 15.5 cm; 21 lines per page., Binding: In cardboard binding (in 23 numbered quires), In fair naskh/ruqʻah script, in black ink, on white paper; with the phrases of "al-Ḥikam al-ʻAṭāʼīyah" and markings in red; some notes and corrections on the margins; catchwords., On folio 1a: "Kitāb Sharḥ al-Ḥikam li-Ibn ʻAbbād, raḥimahu Allāh taʻālá raḥmatan wāsiʻah wa-nafaʻanā bi-hi wa-al-Muslimīn ajmaʻīn. Āmīn. Āmīn.", On folio 1a: Two verses of poetry, quoted from "Kitāb Ḥusn al-tanabbuh li-mā warada fī al-tashabbuh" of al-Najm al-Ghazzī (Ghazzī, Najm al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1570-1651), On folio 1a: Two verses of "Mawwāl [a form of popular folk poetry], li-Sayyidī al-ʻārif billāh wa-Sayyid al-ʻĀrifīn Abī ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn al-ʻArabī, quddisa sirruhu.", On folio 1a: Ownership statement: "Āla ilá nawbat al-ḥaqīr Muḥṣṭafá al-Ḥalabī ibn Muḥammad al-ʻAraḍī al-Ḥusaynī al-Muṭṭalibī, jammala Allāh aḥwālahu wa-min ʻatharātihi aqālahu. Fī 12 Sh. [Shʻbān/Shawwāl], 1269 [of the Hijrah = 21 May 1853 or 19 July, 1853].", On folio 1a: Five illegible ownership statements and two illegible seals., On folio 228a: A reader's statement: "Qad tammat qirāʼat hādhā al-kitāb al-ʻadhb al-mustaṭāb bayna al-ʻishāʼayn fī Jāmiʻ Banī Umayyah bi-Dimashq al-maḥmīyah, wa-dhālika laylat al-Khamīs al-thāniyah ʻasharī shahr Jumādá al-Thānī, sanat arbaʻah wa-sabʻīn wa-miʼatayn wa-alf [28 January, 1858]. Katabahu al-faqīr Sulaymān ibn Jaʻfar Āghā, ʻufiya [ʻanh].", On folio 228b: A reader's note: "Naẓara wa-ṭālaʻa fī hādhā al-kitāb afqar al-ʻibād wa-aḥwajuhum ilá al-Malik al-Jawwād, al-ʻabd al-musīʼ Saʻīd ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhā ibn Yāsīn al-Qudsī, nahār al-khamsīn [?] al-Khamīs alladhī huwa min shuhūr sanat iḥdā [iḥdá] wa-sittīn wa-miʼah wa-alf [Thursday, [?]1748]." Followed by invocation by him in seven verses of poetry., Colophon (folio 228a): "Wa-wāfaqa al-farāgh min kitābat hādhihi al-nuskhah yawm al-Khamīs al-mubārak, tāsiʻ ʻashar Shaʻbān al-mubārak, min shuhūr sanat alf wa-miʼah wa-tisʻah wa-ʻishrīn min al-Hijrah ʻalá ṣāḥibihā afḍal al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām. M.", and Translation of the colophon: "This blessed copy was completed on blessed Thursday, 19 blessed Shaʻbān 1129 of the Hijrah of the Prophet [29 July, 1717], may the best prayer and peace be upon Him."
Subject (Name):
Ibn ʻAbbād, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, 1332 or 1333-1390. and Ibn ʻAṭāʼ Allāh, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1309.
Subject (Topic):
Aphorisms and apothegms, Mysticism, Shādhilīyah, and Sufism
Fullānī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, -approximately 1741, author فلاني، محمد بن محمد، -approximately 1741، author
Published / Created:
18th century.
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 233
Image Count:
612
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Holograph manuscript, on paper, containing Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Fullānī's Kitāb Izālat al-ʻubūs ʻan wajh Manḥ al-Quddūs, a commentary on the same author's poem, entitled Manḥ al-Quddūs, on logic
Alternative Title:
Izālat al-ʻubūs ʻan wajh Manḥ al-Quddūs and إزالة العبوس عن وجه منح القدوس
Description:
In Arabic., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm, wa-bi-hi al-tawfīq. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī naṭaqat maṣnūʻātuhu bi-Rubūbīyatihi, wa-afāḍa ʻalá anwāʻ al-ʻawālim ajnās al-niʻam wa-khawāṣṣ al-mazāyā bi-luṭfihi wa-ḥikmatih, wa-al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām ʻalá Sayyidinā al-mabʻūth bi-al-āyāt al-wāḍiḥāt wa-al-dalāʼil al-qāṭiʻāt, wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-aṣḥābihi al-muqaddamīn ʻalá sāʼir al-awliyāʼ, wa-al-tābiʻīn lahum min al-atqiyāʼ. Ammā baʻd, fa-lammā kāna bi-ittifāq ahl al-ʻaql wa-iṭbāq dhawī al-faḍl anna al-ʻulūm, lāsīyamā al-yaqīnīyah, aʻlá al-maṭālib wa-abhá al-manāqib, wa-anna ṣāḥibahā ashraf al-ashkhās al-basharīyah ...", On the author see Brockelmann, C. Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur, II, 366; S II, p. 494., Available on microfilm., 5 laid-in leaves, in a modern hand., Script: Fair 18th century naskhī, in red and black., Binding: Loose binding, paper covered, Type II (with flap)., Decoration: Rubrication., Foliation on every fifth leaf in modern pencil., and Colophon: "Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā wa-Mawlānā Muḥammad, wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi wa-sallam, ʻadad mā dhakarahu al-dhākirūn wa-ghafila ʻan dhikrihi al-ghāfilūn. Wa-qaʻa al-farāgh min kitābatihi ḍuḥá al-Khamīs."
Subject (Name):
Fullānī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, -approximately 1741.
"Sharḥ Dīwān Imruʼ al-Qays", an unidentified commentary on the "Dīwān" (collected poems) of the Arabian poet/prince Imruʼ al-Qays ibn Ḥujr ibn al-Ḥārith al-Kindī (497-545). The present copy is an endowment (waqf) by al-Ḥājj Aḥmad Bashā al-Jazzār (Aḥmad Pasha al-Jazzār, approximately 1730-1804), governor of ʻAkkā (Acre) to the library of his mosque in ʻAkkā, called "al-Maktabah al-Aḥmadīyah", or, "Nūr Aḥmadīyah". Copied on Saturday, in Jumād Awwal, of the year 1184 of the Hijrah (25 August 1770). Name of copyist and place of copying not mentioned
Description:
In Arabic., Title supplied by Hartford Seminary., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: The beginning is missing. Text starts with: "... banathu Hind maʻa qaṭīnihā ilá ʻUwayr [...] al-ʻUṭāridī, fa-ajārahum, fa-lammā balaghahu qatlu Banī Asad Ḥujran, wathaba ʻalayhi Banū Saʻd, fa-qālū kull amwālihim [...], fa-jaʻalū yanuṣṣūnahu, fa-yanfalitu minhum, fa-yaʼkhudhu al-turāb fa-yarmī bi-hi fī wujūhihim, thumma yaʻūdūna fa-yanuṣṣūnahu ḥattá yafluta minhum, fa-lammā wārá damsun masāʼan ittakhadha al-layl jamalan bi-jīrānihi, kamā qāla: Wa-laylatin ẓalmāʼ ḍaḥyāʼ wa-saḥābah mukarah waṭfāʼ. Thumma akhadha bi-khiṭām Hind, wa-hiya ʻadīlat ummihi ...", Secundo folio: Inna Banī ʻAwfin ibtanaw ḥasaban ḍayyaʻahu al-dukhullalūna idh ghadarū., 15.5 x 22 cm; written surface: 8 x 15 cm; 11 lines per page., Binding: In blue cardboard; green cloth on spine., In good large naskh script; in black ink, on white thick paper; the verses of the "Dīwān" of Imruʼ al-Qays in red; catchwords., Includes a folded sheet of paper in English, with comparison notes between the editions of Lyall and Ahlwardt., On folio 1a: An endowment statement (waqf), as follows: "Awqafa wa-ḥabasa wa-taṣaddaqa bi-hādhā al-kitāb al-Ḥājj Aḥmad Bāshā al-Jazzār, fī jāmiʻihi alladhī bi-ʻAkkā, al-Nūr al-Aḥmadīyah, ʻalá ṭālib [... ...] min maḥallihi, waqfan ṣaḥīḥan [...] lā yubāʻ wa-lā yurhan wa-lā yubaddal, fa-man baddalahu baʻdamā samiʻahu, fa-innamā ithmuhu ʻalá [... ...] Inna Allāha [... ...].", On folio 1b: A partly legible large black oval stamp of al-Jazzār's "waqf"., On folio 2a: two circular blue stamps., After the colophon: An ownership statement: "Wa-qad tamallaka hādhā al-kitāb Saʻd al-Dīn al-Hanāhir [...] hādhihi al-asṭur fī ghurrat Tammūz, fī sanat 1188 [21 Rabīʻ al-Thāni 1188 of the Hijrah = 1 July 1774].", Inside the back cover: "Hijrīyah 1184 fī Jumād Awwal, Rūmīyah Shamsīyah 1182 fī Tammūz.", The text ends with the commentary on the following verse: Raʼat falakan bi-nijābi al-Ghabīṭ // fa-kādat tajid li-dhāka al-hijārā., Colophon: "Tammat hādhihi al-nuskhah nahār al-Sabt, fī Jumād Awwal, sanat 1184.", and Translation of the colophon: "This copy was completed on Saturday, in Jumād Awwal, of the year 1184 [of the Hijrah = 25 August 1770]."
Subject (Name):
Aḥmad Pasha al-Jazzār, approximately 1730-1804. and Imruʼ al-Qays, 497-545.
Manuscript, on paper, containing Tuḥfat al-adīb fī al-radd ʻalá Ahl al-Ṣalīb, Polemics against Christianity, preceded by the author's autobiography. A short version
Alternative Title:
Tuḥfat al-arīb fī al-radd ʻalá Ahl al-Ṣalīb 880-01, Tuḥfat al-arīb fī al-radd ʻalá Ahl al-Ṣalīb, تحفة الأريب في الردّ على أهل الصليب 240-01/r, and تحفة الأريب في الردّ على أهل الصليب
Description:
In Arabic., Copied in A.H. 1269 (A.D. 1853)., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Hādhā Kitāb Tuḥfat al-adīb fī al-radd ʻalá Ahl al-Ṣalīb. Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm, wa-bi-hi nastaʻīn. al-Ḥamdu lillāh al-munazzah ʻan al-ḥulūl wa-al-ittiḥād, al-muqaddas ʻan al-tathlīth wa-al-mawlūd wa-al-awlād, wa-al-munqidh lil-ḥaqq baʻda al-ḍalālah, wa-al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām ʻalá Nabīyihi Muḥammad al-khātim lil-risālah, wa-ʻalá ālihi al-rāshidīn fī kull ḥālah, mā ḥaqqa al-ḥaqq wa-zuhiqa al-bāṭil, wa-mā anṣafa ʻinda samāʻ al-ḥaqq kull ʻāqil. Wa-baʻd, fa-yaqūlu rājī ʻafwa Rabbihi al-Karīm, al-faqīr ilayhi ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm: Qad aṭlaʻanī Allāh ʻalá hādhihi al-risālah, wa-hiya tusammá 'Tuḥfat al-adīb fī al-radd ʻalá Ahl al-Ṣalīb' ...", The author was a Christian convert from Majorce., Script: Fair naskhī, in red and black., Binding: Modern library binding., Decoration: Rubricated., Foliated in modern pencil., and Colophon: "Tamma al-kitāb al-musammá bi-'Tuḥfat al-adīb fī al-radd ʻalá Ahl al-Ṣalīb'. Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh waḥdahu. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá man lā nabī baʻdahu. Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn. Āmīn. Wa-qad tamma al-risālah ʻalá yad afqar al-ʻibād, wa-aḥwajihim ilá Allāh taʻālá, al-Sayyid Aḥmad ibn Sayyid Ṣāliḥ ibn Sayyid al-Ḥājj Muḥammad ibn Sayyid al-Ḥājj Bākīr ibn al-Ḥājj Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Afandī, ghafara Allāh lahum wa-jamīʻ al-Muslimīn, wa-li-man daʻá la-hu bi-al-maghfirah. Āmīn. Wa-kāna al-farāgh min nuskhah al-mubārakah yawm al-Arbiʻāʼ, waqt al-ḍaḥwah al-ṣughrá, fī shahr Jumādá al-Awwal, alladhī huwa min shuhūr sanat alf wa-miʼatayn wa-tisʻah wa-sittīn min baʻd al-Hijrah al-Muḥammadīyah [February/March 1853], ʻalayhi afḍal al-ṣalāh wa-atamm al-taslīm. Sanat 1269. Sanat 1269."
Manuscript, on paper, containing Tuḥfat al-labīb fī al-radd ʻalá ahl al-ṣalīb, or a text containing Polemics against Christianity, preceded by the author's autobiography
Alternative Title:
Tuḥfat al-arīb fī al-radd ʻalá Ahl al-Ṣalīb 880-01, Tuḥfat al-arīb fī al-radd ʻalá ahl al-ṣalīb, تحفة الأريب في الردّ على أهل الصليب 240-01/r, and تحفة الأريب في الردّ على أهل الصليب
Description:
Copied in A.H. 1244 (A.D. 1828)., In Arabic., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad, wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi wa-sallam. Yaqūlu al-ʻabd al-faqīr ilá Allāh, al-rājī karīm al-ṣafḥ ʻan dhanbihi al-ʻaẓīm, ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Tarjumān, laṭafa Allāh bi-hi wa-bi-jamīʻ al-Muslimīn, Āmīn, bi-mannihi wa-faḍlihi wa-karamihi, Āmīn: Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm, wa-bi-hi nastaʻīn ʻalá al-qawm al-kāfirīn. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī khaṣṣanā bi-khayr al-adyān, wa-jaʻalanā min ummat Sayyidinā Muḥammad al-ʻAdnān, wa-akramanā bi-tilāwat al-Qurʼān, wa-ṣawm shahr Ramaḍān ...", The author was a Christian convert from Majorce., Script: Fair naskhī, in red and black., Binding: In paper covered cardboard, Type II (with flap); light brown leather on the spine of the cover and the flap., Decoration: Rubricated., Foliation in modern pencil., and Colophon: "Wa-wāfaqa al-farāgh min taswīd hādhā al-kitāb waqt adhān al-ẓuhr, yawm al-Sabt, laylat al-Aḥad, 8, li-thamān layālin maḍat min shahr Allāh al-ḥarām, iftitāḥ ʻām 1244 [21 July 1828], ʻalá yad al-ʻabd al-faqīr ʻAlī al-Saqqā, khādim al-fuqarāʼ, laṭafa Allāh bi-hi." To the right of the colophon: An ownership statement: "Mimmā manna Allāh taʻālá al-ʻAlī ʻalá ʻabdihi al-faqīr al-ḥaqīr ʻAlī." To the left of the colophon: "In raʼayta ʻayban fa-sudda al-khalalā // tabqá ʻinda al-nāsi fī ʻayn al-malā. Wa-lā tuʻāyir man fīhi ʻaybun // jalla man lā fīhi ʻaybun wa-ʻalā."
Būnī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, -1225 بوني، أحمد بن علي، -1225
Published / Created:
1715.
Call Number:
Hartford Seminary Arabic MSS 557
Image Count:
142
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
"al-Asrār al-Rabbānīyah" (Divine secrets), a treatise on magic and the occult, employing the letters of the Arabic alphabet and magic squares and circles, by Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī al-Būnī (died 1225), a well-known Ṣūfī, of North-African origin, who authored works on Sufism and "ʻilm al-ḥurūf" (science of letters) and died in Cairo; his "nisbah" (affiliation) is to Būnah (Bône, Algeria). Copied in the year 1127 of the Hijrah (1715). Name of copyist and place of copying not mentioned
Description:
In Arabic., Title from folio 1a and the colophon., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī adāra bi-yad al-asrār laṭāʼif aflāk al-malakūtīyāt, wa-abraza min khidhr [khidr] al-ghayb shumūs al-maʻārif li-dhawī al-ḥaqāʼiq al-ilāhīyāt, wa-aṭlaʻa min baḥr al-nūr al-aʻlá nafāʼis jawāhir al-ʻuqūl al-nūrānīyāt, wa-aḥkama iḥkām aḥkām tadawwiru dawāʼir al-akwān bi-al-ḥurūf al-iḥāṭīyāt, al-badīʻ alladhī abdaʻa ibdāʻ ṣuwarihā fī alwāḥ arwāḥ al-ʻawālim al-ʻulwīyāt wa-al-suflīyāt, al-muṣawwir alladhī ṣawwara kunh maʻānīhā fī ʻarsh al-nafs al-wāḥidah, fa-ẓaharat fī dhawāt al-anfus al-mutaʻaddidāt ...", Secundo folio: al-tajallīyāt, fa-ḥamdan ʻalá hādhihi al-niʻmah., 15.2 x 20.5 cm; written surface: 10 x 16 cm; 19 lines per page., Binding: In cardboard cover with dark brown leather on spine., In good naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; some headings and markings in red; many magic squres and circles; some notes and corrections on the margins; catchwords., On folios 1a (in pencil): "al-Asrār al-Rabbānīyah lil-Būnī.", On folio 1a: A statement by a reader/owner: "Naẓara fīhi wa-taʼammala maʻāniyahu, dāʻiyan li-ḥāwīhi an yaftaḥa Allāh ʻalayhi futūḥ al-ʻārifīn bi-jāh al-Nabī al-amīn, ṣallá Allāh taʻālá ʻalayhi wa-sallam. Āmīn.", Colophon: "Tammat hādhihi al-Asrār al-Rabbānīyah. Wa-Allāh aʻlam bi-al-ṣawāb. Sanat 1127.", and Translation of the colophon: "These Divine secrets are completed. God is more knowledgeable of what is correct. The year 1127 [of the Hijrah = 1715]."
Subject (Name):
Būnī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, -1225.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic alphabet, Islamic magic, Islamic occultism, and Magic squares
