AL-MUFTI AL-KHADIMI AL-NAQSHBANDI: AL-RISALA AL-NAQSHBANDIYYA

OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED END OF JUMADA AL-THANI AH 1266/MAY 1850 AD

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AL-MUFTI AL-KHADIMI AL-NAQSHBANDI: AL-RISALA AL-NAQSHBANDIYYA
OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED END OF JUMADA AL-THANI AH 1266/MAY 1850 AD
Translation of the Naqshbandi treatise, Ottoman Turkish on paper, 192ff. plus five fly-leaves, each folio with 15ll. of black nasta'liq, key words picked out in red, set within thick gold and black rules, the margins with occasional marginal medallions and annotation, catchwords, the opening folio with illuminated rococo headpiece, with nine pull-out pages with additional notes on the text, in contemporaneous gilt tooled leather binding, the doublures of marbled paper
Text panel 6 3⁄8 x 2 5⁄8in. (16.1 x 6.3cm.); folio 8 ¾ x 5in. (22 x 12.6cm.)

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Lot Essay

The original work from which this manuscript is translated from is a treatise on the practices of the Naqshbandi Sufi path, written by Ebu Sa’id Hadimi (d. 1762-63). Our copy appears to be an early, very possibly autograph copy of the work and definitely an early authorized copy. The printed edition of the work produced in AH 1268/1851 AD begins with three statements of approval by Naqshbandi authorities. These appear in this manuscript in distinct, presumably autographic hands, along with impressions of the respective authors’ seals. The first belongs to the royal tutor (mu’allim al-sultani) al-Hajj ‘Umar b. ‘Abdullah al-Aqshahri (Ömer ibn Abdullah Akshehri). The second belongs to al-Sayyid Hafiz Sulayman Rushdi (Seyyid Hafiz Süleyman Rüshdi), Qadi of the province of Kurdistan, along with a seal impression bearing the date AH 1239/1823-24 AD. The third belongs to a certain ‘Abd al-Fattah al-Khalidi al-Naqshbandi along with an impression of his seal bearing the date AH 1266/1849-50 AD.

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