ANDALUSIA, SPAIN OR NORTH AFRICA, CIRCA 13TH CENTURY

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MUKHTASAR HILYAT AL-AWLIYA'
ANDALUSIA, SPAIN OR NORTH AFRICA, CIRCA 13TH CENTURY
An early copy of this abridged version of Abu Nu'aym's ten volumes on the biography of figures of early Islam, Arabic manuscript on paper, 131ff. plus two modern fly-leaves, each folio with 33ll. of fine sepia maghribi script, titles and occasional words in larger script, occasional marginal notes and later numbering, faint catchwords, incomplete at end, in 19th century stamped and tooled brown morocco binding with flap
Folio 11 ¼ x 7 ¾in. (28.6 x 19.7cm.)

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This manuscript is an abridged version of Hilyat al-Awliya’ wa Tabaqat al-Asfiya’ by Abu Nu’aim al-Isfahani (D. 1038 AD). It consists of biographies of saints and mystics of early Islam and comprises 10 volumes. It was abridged by al-Jawzi (d. 1200 AD) under the titles Safwat al-Safwa and Sifat al-Safwa. This manuscript is probably one of those abridgements.

There are seven copies in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, see U. Lyons, A Handlist of the Arabic Manuscript, volume VIII and Indexes, Dublin, 1966. See Brockelmann, GAL, i. 362 , Suppl. i. 617.

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