SIGNED HAFIZ AL-QUR'AN SAYF ZADEH MUHAMMAD HILMI, A STUDENT OF 'ABD AL-RAHMAN AT-TAWFIQI, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1257/1841-42 AD

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PRAYER BOOK
SIGNED HAFIZ AL-QUR'AN SAYF ZADEH MUHAMMAD HILMI, A STUDENT OF 'ABD AL-RAHMAN AT-TAWFIQI, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1257/1841-42 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 56ff. plus two fly-leaves, 15ll. of black naskh to the page, with rosette or roundel gold verse markers, text within red and black-ruled gold frame, including tables with the names of God, with three finely illuminated headpieces, catchwords, colophon signed and dated, in original gilt and tooled brown morocco with flap
Text panel 3 1/8 x 1 7/8in. (8 x 4.7cm.); folio 5 ¼ x 3 5/8in. (13.4 x 9.3cm.)

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This prayer book opens with Ibn ‘Arabi’s al-Dawr al-A’la (The Exalted Cycle) with a commentary in Turkish. This is followed by the Hizb al-Bahr of Imam Shadhili, al-Hizb al-A’zam of ‘Ali al-Qari (d. 1605-06) preceded by a commentary, Qur'an LXIII, sura al-falaq, Qur'an LXIV, sura al-nas and further prayers.

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