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البحر المورود في المواثيق والعهود
al-Baḥr al-mawrūd fī al-mawāthīq wa-al-ʻuhūd.
Author
Shaʻrānī, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad, approximately 1493-1565 or 1566
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شعراني، عبد الوهاب بن احمد
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Uniform title
Baḥr al-mawrūd fī al-mawāthīq wa-al-ʻuhūd
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بحر المورود في المواثيق والعهود
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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/Created
[1652]
Description
i, 186, i leaves: paper ; 277 x 170 (190 x 94) mm. bound to 277 x 180 mm.
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Special Collections - Manuscripts
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 162Yq Oversize
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Subject(s)
Dervishes
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Conduct of life
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Early works to 1800
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Dervishes
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Customs and practices
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Early works to 1800
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Sufis
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Conduct of life
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Early works to 1800
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Sufis
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Customs and practices
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Early works to 1800
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Sufism
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Rituals
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Early works to 1800
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Sufism
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Doctrines
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Early works to 1800
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Manuscripts, Arabic
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New Jersey
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Princeton
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Islamic countries
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17th century
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Summary note
Edifying treatise, with examples from the conduct and oaths taking of important shaykhs. At the beginning of the text is a list of Shaʻrānī's shaykhs. The text is followed on fol. 183b-186a by a copy of the ijāzāt given by the ʻUlamāʾ of Egypt to the author.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from preamble of text (fol. 2b).
Physical description: 27 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. European paper with watermark; glossy. The text is framed within two single red lines (gold, black, blue and red on fol. 1b-2a). Crudely executed headpiece (ʻunwān) on fol. 1b. Subject headings written in black ink by a later hand on the margin. Fol. 181-182 apparently later replacements. Stained with water.
Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on Saturday 12 Ramaḍān 1062 [Aug. 17, 1652] (fol. 186a).
Incipit: اقول وانا العبد الفقير الى رحمة ربّي عبد الوهاب ابن احمد بن على بن احمد بن كمال الدين بن موسى بن مولاي ابى عبد الله الزغلى بضم الزاي المعجمة وسكون الغين المعجمة سلطان تلمسن بارض المغرب واجل اصحاب سيدنا العارف بالله تعالى الشيخ ابى مدين شيخ مشايخ المغرب ... الحمد لله رب العالمين واصلي واسلم على سيدنا محمد ... واقول حسبى الله ونعم الوكيل ولا حول ولا قوى الا بالله العلي العظيم وبعد فهذه عهود ومواثيق اخذت علينا من ساداتنا ومشايخنا الذين عاصرناهم وبعضها اقبسناها
Explicit: ابن حمزه الرملي الانصارى الشافعى غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمشايخه والحمد لله لرب العالمين وصلى الله ... يقول مولفها ... قد ارسلت هذا الكتاب لسيدي الشيخ بن عبد الحق تغمده الله برحمته فمكث عنده سنة ونصفا ومر عليه مرات قال الشيخ ابو اللطف ابن عمه قد استفدت من هذا الكتاب المبارك فوايد كثيرة واخذته المينه قبل كتابته عليه رحمة الله تعالى وكان الفراغ من كتابته يوم السبت المبارك ثانى عشر شهر رمضان المبارك سنة اثنين وستين والف احسن الله ختامها بمحمد واله امين امين امين
Binding note
Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Both covers have a central gold stamped and red-painted scalloped mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis. Edges, spine, fore-edge flap mended in red leather.
Provenance
Several ownership statements and impressions of stamps on fol. 1a, in the name of Maḥmūd ibn Ibrāhīm; Qāsim al-Shaʻrānī; Muḥammad Sharīf ʻImādī Zade; Shaykh ʻUthmān (with stamp dated 1203 H.); etc. Waqf statement on fol. 1a and 186b (the latter with stamp) in the name of al-marḥūm al-Shaykh Maḥmūd Efendi al-Quṭb for the scholars of Nābulus [Nablus], entrusted to his son al-Ḥājj Ibrāhīm al-Quṭb, under the supervision of al-shaykh Muḥammad Efendi ZʻNīR. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 2819
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1588.
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 337/16 ; SII
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Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
Also available in an electronic version.
OCLC
183417130
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