SIGNED AL-SAYYID HASSAN AL-SHAWQI (ŞEVKI), A PUPIL OF HAFIZ 'ALI AL-ZUHDI, OTTOMAN TURKEY, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

This manuscript begins with a selection of Qur’anic suras including al-fatiha, al-baraqa, ya sin, al-fath, al-rahman, al-waqi'ah, al-mulk, al-naba' and from al-duha to al-nas. These are followed by Arabic prayers, the Names of God (Asma al-Husna’), the Names of Muhammad and further prayers in Arabic with occasional explanations in Turkish, including the Prayer of the Prophets (Peygamberan), prayer against the plague (veba), the Prayer of Adam (Hazret Adem), the Prayer of Augury (Istihare), prayer from the Duaname of Ebussuud Efendi, the divination (reml) of Ali and the Berhetiyye Prayer. These are followed by the hilyeh of the Prophet, the Qasidat al-Burda and a Turkish prayer.