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رسالة في طريقة الشيخ الصاوي.
Risālah fī ṭarīqat al-Shaykh al-Ṣāwī / lil-Faqīr Muḥammad Aḥmad al-Anṣārī.
1826-1899
A manual of prayer for the use of novices in the order of al-Shaykh al-Ṣāwī.
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- Publisher
- [after 1826]
- People
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- Author
- Anṣārī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, active 19th century
- انصاري، محمد بن احمد، active 19th century
- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 266L
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
A manual of prayer for the use of novices in the order of al-Shaykh al-Ṣāwī.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- رسالة في طريقة الشيخ الصاوي.
- Transliterated Title
- Risālah fī ṭarīqat al-Shaykh al-Ṣāwī / lil-Faqīr Muḥammad Aḥmad al-Anṣārī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 266L
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc3n204b322
- Publisher
- [after 1826]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1826-1899
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 23 leaves : paper ; 222 x 160 (145 x 75) mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1838.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 23 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 17 lines per page.
- Description: Watermarks (three hats; roman-alphabet letters "NR") ; MS in fair condition.
- Origin: Probably from XlXth century. It is stated in original colophon that the work was composed in 1241 [1826].
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم لمن وفق احبابه لاتباع خير الانام ... فقد طلب مني بعض الاخوان ان [ا]کتب له ما يجب على المريد فى اليوم والليله ...
- Colophon: وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم تسليما والحمد لله رب العالمين. م
- Binding Note
- Unbound.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 48
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/d1e9783c-02ae-4ec3-ab3e-bf752a1a3533/manifest