Item Summary

A treatise in the precepts of Islamic mysticism composed in 1199 in Almeria and written in the form of advice to Ibn al-ʻArabī's disciple ʻAlī bin Badr al-Ḥabashī, to whom it is dedicated.

Descriptive Information

Title
مواقع النجوم ومطالع اهلة الاسرار والعلوم / لخاتم الاولياء الشيخ الاكبر والملك الاذخر محيي الدين بن العربي قدس سره.
Transliterated Title
Mawāqiʻ al-nujūm wa-maṭāliʻ ahillat al-asrār wa-al-ʻulūm / li-Khātim al-Awliyāʾ al-Shaykh al-Akbar wa-al-Malik al-Adhkhar Muḥyī al-Dīn bin al-ʻArabī qaddasa sirrah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 362Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/bz60cz88q
Publisher
[1666]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1666
Extent
128 leaves : paper ; 200 x 148 (137 x 80) mm. bound to 200 x 154 mm.
Provenance
Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 2712.
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 574 (18)
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 795 (19)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 1a.
19 lines per page. Written in a casual medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Glazed European paper. Catchwords on the verso of each folio. Foliation in pencil in Western numerals. Title on lower edge of text block: Mawāqiʻ al-nujūm. Ownership statement, accompanied with a seal, in the name of al-Sayyid Aḥmad Nūrī on fol. 1a.
Incipit: الحمد لله الحى القيوم المقسم بمواقع النجوم ... اما بعد فيا ذا العقل السليم والمتصف باوصاف الكمال والتتميم
Explicit: الدرة البيضا موصلنا الى هذه المقامات العلية القدسية بالتسليم والتفويض لموارد القضا وعلى اله الطيبين الطاهرين والحمد لله رب العالمين ولا حول ولا قوة الا بالله العلى العظيم كملت المواقع والمطالع بعون الله تعالى
Binding Note
Half leather with envelope flap. Spine and fore-edge flap in brown leather. Covers and envelope flap in glazed orange paper embossed in floral pattern over pasteboard. Endleaves in blue and black marbled paper. Lining to the fore-edge flap in blue paper. Label on upper cover: "Taṣawwuf 6".

Physical Characteristics

File Count
132

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/1e4f6b5d-dec9-472b-a3c8-dd2156e7e6c8/manifest