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This volume contains the following six Sufi tracts :. (I) ff 2v-6r : Nasaih-i evliya ve menakıb-i işan, a tract that does not include the author's name;. (II) ff 6v-49v : Risale-yi Mustafa İsameddin Nakşibendi, an exposé of Nakşibendi beliefs by Nidai, who tells us in a Persian mesnevi (ff 43v-45v) that he came from Kandahar. This text was copied at Eyüp by Hafız Mehmet Emin in 1233 AH (1817-18 CE);. (III) ff 50v-55v : Bī-sar nāmah (بى سر نامه), a tarjīᶜ-band in Persian by ᶜaṭṭār;. (IV) ff 55v-93r) Menazilü'l-arifin, an Ottoman Turkish translation and explanation of a risale by Ghazzālī compiled in 993 AH (1585 CE) by Şemseddin Sivasi;. (V) ff 93v-94v : Four poems by Şemseddin Sivasi;. (VI) ff 94v-95r : Pendname-yi Buhlul-i Dana, a tract without the name of the author provided. All of the tracts were copied by the same hand and are therefore likely contemporaneous with text II.

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Other copies of the Menazilü'l-arifin can be found at Add MS 7835 and Add MS 7840 text II. Other poetry by Şemsi can be found at Or 7113 text II (Deh mürg), Or 7203 (Deh mürg), Or 9476 (Divan), Or 11567 (Mevlidü'n-nebi), and Or 13369 (Gülşenabad). For more information about Şemsi, see SO III, p. 165; OM I, p. 95; Rieu, Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the British Museum, pp. 18-19; Flügel, Vienna Catalogue III, pp. 307-08; Haj. Khal III, p. 118. Haj. Khal. VI, p. 131 gives 1006 AH (1597-98 CE) as the date of composition of the Menazilü'l-arifin, and names the author as Abdülmecit İbn-i Muharrem, the aforementioned nephew, who died in 1049 AH (1639-40 CE). For more information about the Kīmiyā-yi Saᶜādat, see Fleischer, Dresden Catalogue, No. 255; and Gosche, Abhandlungen der Akademie zu Berlin, 1858, p. 300.