This volume contains a collection of primarily Sufi tracts and poems by Şeyh Selaheddin el-Uşşaki known as Salahi Efendi (died 1197 AH/1783 CE). They are as follows:. (I) ff 2v-20v : Tuhfet li'l-salikin il-uşşakin, copied by Sait Uşşaki;. (II) ff 23v-25v : Suret-i Tezkire-yi Mevlana ... Cami ... ki bi Mir Ali Şir firistade bud, with the commentary by Salahi Efendi;. (III) ff 26v-34v : Haride ve ceride-yi tashif ve feride-yi ceride-yi tasnif ;. (IV) ff 3v-44v : Risale-yi hall-i maakid el-rumuz, copied by Sait Uşşaki in 1271 (1854-55 CE);. (V) ff 46v-58r : Hilye-yi Hazret-i Hasaneyn, a mesnevi copied in 1272 AH (1855-56 CE);. (VI) ff 61v-70r : Rakimet el-acayıp fi'l-leylet il-ragayıp;. (VII) ff 68v-73v : Risale-yi ragayıbiye, a mesnevi;. (VIII) ff 74r-75v : Notes on the difficult verses in the previous tract;. (IX) ff 78v-84r : Destançe-yi acayıp der leyle-yi ragayıp, a mesnevi;. (X) ff 89v-100r : Risale-yi cevahir-i tac-i hilafet;. (XI) ff 100v-118r : Medar-i mebde-yi maad;. (XII) ff 119v-160v : An Ottoman Turkish version of the Risālah-yi qudsiyah (رسالۀ قدسیه) of Muḥammad Pārsā, copied in 1254 AH (1838-39 CE);. (XIII) ff 161v-169v : Risale-yi mir'atü's-sema, copied by Derviş Seyit Mustafa Halet İbn-i Mehmet Arif;. (XIV) ff 171v-178v : Izhar-i esrar-i nihan ez envar-i hatım-i hocagan, copied in 1174 AH (1760-61 CE);. (XV) ff 179r-183r : Usul ve adab-i tarikat-i aliye-yi Uşşakiye ;. (XVI) ff 183v-187v : Silsile-yi Uşşakiye, a mesnevi by Seyit Mehmet Cemaleddin Uşşaki el-Edirnevi (died 1164 AH/1761-62 CE), and other matters relating to the order;. (XVII) ff 188r-191r : Etvar-i seb'a, a mesnevi by Halil;. (XVIII) ff 191r-199v : A commentary on the Ayet-i kerime;. (XIX) ff 200r-204r : An untitled tract;. (XX) ff 204r-205r : Explanation of a beyit composed by Nasreddin Hoca;. (XXI) ff 205v-207v : An untitled commentary on a saying of Ali;. (XXII) ff 207v-210r : Tercüme ve kıt'a-yi Salahi Abdi;. (XXIII) ff 210r-212r : A commentary on two verses by Uşşaki;. (XXIV) ff 212r-215v : Commentary on a verse by Emir Hüsrev of Delhi;. (XXV) ff 216r-219r : Şerh-i nutk-i Nasuhi;. (XXVI) ff 219r-223v : A commentary on a gazel of Neşe-i Buhari;. (XXVII) ff 223r-232v : Commentary on verses by Niyazi-yi Mışri, copied in 1186 AH (1772-73 CE);. (XXVIII) ff 232v-238r : Nutk-i Aşık Ömer, alongside a commentary;. (XXIX) ff 238r-246r : Commentaries on verses by Niyazi-yi Mısri and others;. (XXX) ff 248r-297v : Poems by Salahi;. (XXXI) ff 298r-316r : A commentary on a gazel of Rumi;. (XXXII) ff 316v-346r : A commentary on the Khamriyah (خمرية) of Ibnu'l-Fāriḍ;. (XXXIII) ff 346r-348v : Qaṣīdah-yi ṣāfiyah, tamīmah-yi kāfiyah (قصیدۀ صافیه, تمیمۀ کافیه), alongside an Ottoman Turkish version of the same, copied by Derviş Mustafa Halet in 1266 AH (1849-50 CE);. (XXXIV) ff 352r-377v : Gül-i sad berk ki evrat berayi tuhfe-yi ubbat;. (XXXV) ff 378r-390v : Münacat be-tertib-i esma-yi husna, verses with the latter portion in prose, compiled in 1181 AH (1767-68 CE);. (XXXVI) ff 390v-392r : Hizb li-kahr il-edep, followed by a prayer for protection against fire;. (XXXVII) ff 392v-393v : An Arabic takhmīs on a kaside by Ḥasan ibn Thābit and a translation of it into Ottoman Turkish verse;. (XXXVIII) ff 394r-414v : An Arabic takhmīs on a poem by Muḥammad al-Būshrī and a translation into Ottoman Turkish verse;. (XXXIX) ff 415r-453v : Various poems by Salahi;. (XL) ff 454r-455v : A letter sent by Salahi to a halife at İzmir;. (XLI) ff 456r-457v : A riddle and its solution;. (XLII) ff 457v-459v : A translation of some of the sayings of Ali and other individuals;. (XLIII) ff 460r-481r : Nutk-i şerif-i Hazret-i Mısri and a commentary, followed by Güfte-yi Seyit Memi Can;. (XLIV) ff 481v-488r : Nutk-i Şeyh Mahmud Bedreddin Uşşaki, copied in 1267 AH (1850-51 CE) by Halet;. (XLV) ff 489v-490r : Tertib-i Silsile-yi Piran;. (XLVI) ff 491r-492r : A poem by Uşşaki in praise of Şeyh Mehmet Cemali and Silsilename-yi Uşşaki, another poem;. (XLVII) ff 496v-506v : A musammaṭ in Arabic arranged by letter of the ebced;. (XLVIII) ff 511v-521v : Another musammaṭ of a similar character in Persian;. (XLIX) ff 523v-565v : Various poems of Salahi, copied in 1241 AH (1825-26 CE);. (L) ff 567r-569v : More poems by Salahi, ending with a prayer for protection against all illness;. (LI) ff 577v-584r : An Ottoman Turkish translation of the tract Mir'āt al-maᶜānī li-idrāk al-ᶜālam al-insānī (مرأة المعاني لادراك العالم الانساني) of Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn al-ᶜarabī;. (LII) ff 584v-586r : Şerh-i nutk-i Hazret-i Sünbül Sinan;. (LIII) ff 590v-591r : Tertib-i hatımu'l-hocagan, a poem;. (LIV) f 592r : The last folio of an Arabic tract, copied by Mehmet Kerim İbn-i Mehmet Emin at Bursa in 1246 AH (1830-31 CE);. (LV) ff 592v-594r : Miftāḥ al-wujūd (مفتاح الوجود), an explanation in Arabic of some of the sayings of Ibn al-ᶜarabī, copied in the same hand and at the same date as the previous text;. (LVI) ff 594v-597r : An explanation of the previous risālah in Arabic entitled Al-wasā'il fi'l-ajwibati ᶜan ᶜuyūn al-sā'il (الوسائل في الأجوبة عن عيون السائل), copied by Mehmet Kerim İbn-i Mehmet Emin;. (LVII) ff 597v-603r : An Ottoman Turkish commentary on the risālah of Ghazzālī entitled Mas'alat al-ᶜajz fī maᶜrifat Allāh (مسئلة العجز في معرفة الله), copied in 1246 AH (1830-31 CE) by Mehmet Kerim İbn-i Mehmet Emin;. (LVIII) f 603v : The first folio of a tract in Arabic entitled Tafsīl al-nash'atayn wa tafsīl al-saᶜādatayn (تفسيل النشئتين و تفسيل السعادتين) by Abu'l-Qāsim al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibnu'l-Mufaḍḍal;. (LIX) ff 604v-617r : An explanation in Ottoman Turkish of a poem by Celaleddin Rumi;. (LX) ff 619r-632r : An isolated folio of an Ottoman Turkish tract followed by a commentary on a discourse by İsmail Hakkı Bursevi;. (LXI) ff 632v-638v : Commentary on a discourse by Eşrefoğlu Rumi;. (LXII) ff 638v-640v : A commentary on a verse from a gazel by Sami, followed by a commentary on a discourse or homily by Nasuhi, which is imperfect;. (LXIII) ff 641v-672v : Şerh-i Elli dört farz, an Ottoman Turkish translation of an Arabic work by Ḥasan al-Baṣrī, compiled by Salahi, of whom there is a biography in the preface taken from Mehmet Esat Efendi's Bağçe-yi safa-endüz (1251 AH/1835-36 CE; f 642v). This latter piece was published in İstanbul in 1260 AH (1844-45 CE). All of the tracts without a date of transcription provided were likely copied in the 18th or 19th century CE.
[Sufi mecmua by Salahi Efendi]
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- 18th century-19th century
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- Arabic Persian Turkish
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- 63 texts 672 ff Materials : Paper. Foliation : European, 672 ff. Dimensions : 238 mm x 138 mm. Script : Mostly nesih.
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Purchased by the British Museum from Dr. Oskar Rescher on 14 August 1961.