Keşf el-hicab - كشف الحجاب

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 12628
  • Dates of Creation
    • Late 16th century
  • Language of Material
    • Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • 1 text 376 ff. Materials : Paper. Foliation : European, 376 ff. Dimensions : 206 mm x 147 mm. Script : Nesih.

Scope and Content

This volume contains a commentary on the Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam (فصوص الحكم) of Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn al-ᶜarabī compiled by Nevi Efendi (died 1007 AH/1599-1600 CE). The work makes use of the names of 27 prophets from Adam to Muhammad صلعم in order to explain the most common and varied topics of Sufi theology. It also contains poetry on occasion. The text is preceded by a table of contents. At the end of the text, a chronogram gives the date of composition as 1002 AH (1593-94 CE). As this manuscript is an autograph, it was copied somewhere between this date and 1007 AH (1599-1600 CE), the date of the poet's death.

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Acquisition Information

Purchased by the British Museum from Dr. Oskar Rescher on 5 September 1961.

Related Material

Another copy of this work can be found at Or 8724. For more information on Nev'i Efendi and the text, see Sefercioğlu, Nejat, 'Nev'î: Divan şairi ve âlim,' Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı İslâm Ansiklopedisi. Last accessed: 9 August 2021. https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/nevi--divan-sairi.