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A collection of five short risālahs, most of them by Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān al-Arwādī (d. ca. 1858), in a variety of fields, including Islamic theology, ethics and Sufism. Text 3 is followed by four pages of Sufi litanies and prayers on ff. 15b-17a. Other pages between the texts are blank. All texts are in same hand, copied by Muṣṭafá ibn al-marḥūm al-Shaykh ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Shuhnī (colophon of text 5, fol. 41b). The texts are not dated but the date of the completion of text 4 is given as the 21st of Ṣafar 1268 (16th December 1851) and, at the same time, text 4 is followed (on fol. 42a) by an authographed ijāzah issued to Veysi-paşa by the author Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān al-Arwādī, dated 12th of Rajab 1268 (2nd of May 1852). This means that the ms. was copied in between those two dates, i.e. in 1852.