Item Summary

A collection containing two works on Moroccan Sufism and Sufis.

Descriptive Information

Title
شور الطوية في مذهب الصوفية ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Shawr al-ṭawīyah fī madhhab al-Ṣūfīyah ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1045H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dczs25xn13z
Publisher
[19th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1800-1899
Format
Manuscript
Extent
148 leaves : paper ; 211 x 165 (165 x 112) mm bound to 215 x 172 mm.
Provenance
Signature: ʻUmar ibn Balqāsim ibn Abī al-Naṣr al-[?] al-Ḥasanī (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 2174.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1b-114b: Shawr al-ṭawīyah fī madhhab al-Ṣūfīyah / [al-ʻArabī ibn Aḥmad al-Sharīf al-Darfāl]. A record of discourses on Ṣūfī theology delivered by Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-ʻImrānī, whom the author first met in Fās in 1182/1768 or 9.
2. fol. 117b-148a: al-Irshād wa-al-tibyān fī radd mā ankarahu al-ruʼasāʼ min ahl Tiṭwān / Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Makkūdī. A work protesting the ill-treatment and the persecution of the Ṣūfīs in Tiṭwān by the ʻulama of the city.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from titlepiece of first work (fol. 1b).
Inscriptions on upper pastedown and fol. 148b.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 148 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red and blue.
Description: Rubricated ; MS in good condition. Rare.
Decoration: Both works in the collection have illuminated titlepieces. Shawr al-ṭawīyah has the title written in beige ink with an infill of blue and white, corners in red, and a small roundel in the margin (fol. 1b). al-Irshād wa-al-tibyān has the author's name with an infill of blue and white surrounded by geometric framing in red, green, blue and beige with a small roundel in the margin (fol. 117b).
Origin: Probably from the early XlXth century.
Incipit: [شور الطوية] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله قدم الله على عبده العربى بن احمد الشريف الدرقاوى نزيل القبيلة الزروالية ... -- [الارشاد والتبيان] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله الحمد لله القاقح الوهاب ... وبعد فيقول مقيده عبد ربه محمد ابن محمد بن عبد الله المكودى ...
Explicit: [شور الطوية] وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم تسليما والحمد لله رب العالمين ه -- [الارشاد والتبيان] ... سيدنا ومولانا محمد خاتم النبيين وامام المرسلين وعلى اله وصحابته اجمعين والحمد لله رب العالمين
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with blind-tooled frame and edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap and flap connector.

Discovery Information

Subject
Sufism—Early works to 1800
Sufism—Morocco—History
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
illuminated manuscripts
headpieces (layout features)
Autographs

Physical Characteristics

File Count
305

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/56b48e9f-2d07-4068-a9da-07d9ba4f103b/manifest