Item Summary

A collection of works in Sufism. The texts are in different hands and of different dates; two of them were copied by, and all would appear to have been put together by Mehmet Nuri to keep in the Kaderi zaviye.

Descriptive Information

Title
رسالهء نوريه لفقراء القادرية ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Risale-yi Nuriye li-fukara il-Kadiriye ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 256
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/hd76s266t
Publisher
[1809-1894]
Language
Ottoman Turkish
Date Created
1809-1894
Format
Manuscript
Extent
97 leaves : paper ; 232 x 150 (115-175 x 82-112) mm. bound to 232 x 155 mm.
Provenance
A statement of vakıf on fol. 1a, stating that the book was endowed to the Kaderi zaviye in the Iskender bey Mahalle in Istanbul, written by Seyit Mehmet Nuri Şeyh Hasan Efendi Zade, and dated 1307/1889-90. The statement is accompanied by two seals, one faded at the top of the page, and the other that of Mehmet Nuri, with the date 1304, at the bottom of the page. The statement is repeated in red ink on fol. 1b, and is accompanied by a large seal of the Şeyh of the zaviye, Süleyman bin Mustafa Ahi el-Kaderi, and two smaller seals below.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 1b-59a: Risale-yi Nuriye / Mehmet Tahir Efendi. A treatise on Sufism, particularly in relation to the Qādirīyah order to which the author belonged.
2. fol. 59b-61a: [Risale] / Ibn al-ʻArabī. A short risale quoting Ibn al-ʻArabī concerning the relationship between God and man (a translation of a risale from Arabic?).
3. fol. 61b-66b: [Risale-yi meratib-i nefis]. A treatise on the different degrees of the soul.
4. fol. 67b-79b: Risale-yi sırr ül-devran / Abdülkadir ibn Abdullah el-Tursi. A treatise on Sufi practices, particularly as applied in the context of the Qādirīyah order. According to the end of text just before the colophon, the work was composed in Muḥarram 1162 (1748)
fol. 79b.
5. fol. 80a-92b: Delil-i büdela / Kaygusuz Abdal. A treatise on the spiritual path of the Sufis. Incomplete at end.
6. fol.94a: [Dua]
7. fol. 94b-95b: [Zikir]
8. fol. 96a-96b: [Duas]
9. fol. 97a: [a recipe].
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from fol. 1a.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 97 ; catchwords.
Layout: 16-19 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Written in nastaʻlīq (texts 2, 4) and general scripts ; rubricated ; overlining
Decoration: Illuminated headpiece of red, purple, blue, black and gold (fol. 1b). Fol. 1b-2a have a wide gold leaf frame outlined in black ink, Risale-yi meratib-i nefis is decorated with red and green watercolors, used for headings and breaks, and sections of the text are written inside a number of circles outlined in red and finished with gold leaf.
Origin: [Risale (Ibn al-ʻArabī)] Copied by Mehmet Nuri el-Kadiri -- [Risale-yi meratib-i nefis] dated 21 Muḥarram 1224 (colophon, fol. 66b) -- [Risale-yi sırr ül-devran] dated Shaʻbān 1311, copied by Mehmet Nuri el-Kadiri, the scribe of the vakıf statement on fol. 1a (colophon, fol. 79b).
Incipit: [رسالهء نوريه] الحمد لله الذي طهر قلوب المؤمنين بنور الايمان ... وبعد فيقول العبد الحقير قاضى زاده محمد طاهر الحنفى -- [رساله (ابن العربي)] شيخ الاكبر محيى الدين ابن العربي قدس سره العزيز ايدر حق تعالى بكا ديديكم انسان بنم سرمدر بن انسانك سريم -- [رسالهء مراتب نفس] حمد اولسون اول اللهه كه جميع مخلوقاتى خلق ايتدكدنصكره -- [رسالهء سر الدوران] حمداً لك اللهم على ما جعلت الحقيقة مطلقة عن التقيدات والتعلقات ... اما بعد معلوم اولسون اى طالب حق وعاشق وجه مطلق -- [دليل بدلا] الحمد لله رب العالمين ... اما بعده بو كتابى بلك واكآه اولن كيم دليل بدلا ودفتر عاشقان وسير عارفان
Explicit: [رسالهء نوريه] اهل سلوك اولان اولاد قلبيه لريمز ذوقاً بلديره آمين بحرمت سيدنا وشيخنا سيد عبد القادر الكيلانى ونفعنا بهمت العالى -- [رساله (ابن العربي)] حق ظهوره كلمك استدى كندونه مناسب بر وجود بولماديكى آنكله بو عالمده ظهور ايده -- [رسالهء مراتب نفس] بو مقدار ايله اكتفا اولندى زيرا بونلرى ضبط اتمك مشكل شيدر انجق همان اهل حق اولنلره تنبيه ايجون بو قدر كآفيدر -- [رسالهء سر الدوران] قلب خزينه سين اغيار محبتندن خفط ايليه حق تعالى جمليه هدايت لر احسانه ايليه آمين -- [دليل بدلا] انك امرينه بل بغليوب دنيا وآخرت سلطانى اولوب جمله مهلكه لرن امين اولاسين
Binding Note
Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper. Endleaves in orange paper. Lining to the envelope flap in green paper. Lining to the fore edge flap in brown fabric.

Discovery Information

Subject
Dervishes—Customs and practices—Early works to 1800
Qādirīyah—Turkey
Qādirīyah—Customs and practices—Early works to 1800
Soul—Islam—Doctrines
Sufism—Customs and practices—Early works to 1800
Sufism—Doctrines
Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton
headpieces (layout features)
illuminated manuscripts
Autographs
Stamps

Physical Characteristics

File Count
100

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/adbab668-2d91-4aeb-9313-e7d8606525f2/manifest