• Reference
    • GB 59 Or 12776
  • Dates of Creation
    • Early 19th century
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • Arabic Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • 4 texts 176 ff Material : Paper. Foliation : European, 176 ff. Dimensions : 213 mm x 163 mm. Script : Nestalik.

Scope and Content

This volume contains the following two Arabic and two Ottoman Turkish texts :. (I) ff 1v-82v : Miftāḥ al-maʿīyah fī ṭarīq al-naqshbandīyah (مفتاح المعية في طريق النقسبندية), by ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʿīl Nābulusī;. (II) ff 83v-86r : Siraciye fi'l-feraiz, a summary of the legal work by al-Sājawandī by an author who has not provided their name;. (III) ff 87v-167v : Fī kayfīyat al-sulūk (في كيفية السلوك), by Maḥmūd Iskandārī;. (IV) ff 168v-176r : Risale-yi Mürşidü'l-Salikin, a mystical tract in 4 mukaddime, 4 maksat and a hatime, by Turhal Şeyh Mustafa Efendi (died 1197 AH/1782-83 CE). This tract is dated 1252 AH (1836-37 CE). The undated tracts are of a similar date to text IV.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Purchased by the British Museum form Dr. Oskar Rescher on 30 October 1962.

Related Material

Another copy of text II might be found at Or 14075. For more information on Turhal Şeyh Mustafa Efendi, see OM I, p. 108.

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