Item Summary

A commentary on a prayer by Ibn al-ʻArabī. According to Hitti (see ref. below) the name of the prayer is Muẓhirat ʻarāʼis al-mukhabbaʼāt bi-al-lisān al-ʻArabī, and this has been accepted by Brockelmann, Hitti being the only reference to this work. However, the title in the ms. itself (see above) suggests that this is in fact the title of the work (with one difference: "Muẓhirah li-ʻarāʼis" as opposed to "Muẓhirat al-ʻarāʼis") and the only reference to the name of the prayer is made at the beginning of the text, as Ṣalāt al-qalb (see incipit).

Descriptive Information

Title
مظهرة لعرايس المخبآت باللسان العربي على صلاة الامام المحقق محيي الدين بن العربي / تأليف شيخنا واستاذنا الامام الهمام العالم العلامة مولانا الشيخ احمد الجوهري الشافعي مذهبا الخالدي نسبا.
Transliterated Title
Muẓhirah li-ʻarāyis al-mukhabbaʼāt bi-al-lisān al-ʻArabī ʻalá ṣalāt al-imām al-muḥaqqiq Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn al-ʻArabī / taʼlīf shaykhunā wa-ustādhunā al-imām al-humām al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah mawlānā al-shaykh Aḥmad al-Jawharī al-Shāfiʻī madhʹhaban al-Khālidī nasaban.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1106H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dckh04f239k
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1899
Extent
6 leaves : paper ; 145 x 102 (100 x 70) mm. bound to 145 x 105 mm.
Provenance
Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1947.
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 801 (173), SNI, 801.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 1a.
The text ends on fol. 5a and is followed by a prayer by the author on fol. 5a-6b. The text is possibly missing a sheet (i.e. two fol.) -- see explicit where the text at the start of fol. 5a does not seem to follow from the end of fol. 4b and the catchword is not the first word of fol. 5a (the latter is also the case with fol. 2b and 3a).
Collation: Paper; fol. 6 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 15 lines per page.
Description: Written in an informal medium small naskh in black ink with some use of red. Glazed European paper.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وافضل الصلاة وازكى التسليم على اشرف خلقه سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه اجمعين اما بعد فقد طلب مني من لا تسعني مخالفته ان اشرح له ... [؟] الفاظ صلاة القلب محيي الدين بن العربي
Explicit: كان هذا قاب قرب ناسوت الوصال الاقرب له من كل شي قربا معنويا حتي ؟ وعدد ما غفل عن ذكرك وذكره الغافلون
Binding Note
Type III (without flap) binding with decorative paper painted in blue, purple and black pattern on covers and orange decorative paper on spine.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
20

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/92e84528-cb40-4ea1-8591-077a1b876d83/manifest