Tardjuma Umm al-barahin fi ba`d manaqib sultan al-arifin al-sayyid al-kabir Ahmad Ibn Abi al-Hasan al-Rifai al-Husayn
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4v-121v; Title from fol.4r; Other title: "Menakıb-ı Seyyid Ahmed Rifai" from fol.1r; Original title "Umm al-barahin fi ba`d manaqib sultan al-arifin al-shaykh al-kabir al-Sayyid Ahmad b. Abi al-Hasan al-Rifai al-Husayni" and name of the author supplied by cataloguer; Translator unknown; Undated, probably 18th century; It is stated on fol.6r, the book dedicated to Sultan Ahmed III (1673-1736).
Introduction in Arabic; Contains a Turkish prayer (on the endsheet); An Arabic prayer (fol.3r-v); Wird al-sharif (fol.117v-121v) in Arabic; A Turkish poem (fol.122v).
Turkish waqf note on fol.1r, 4v: "İstanbul’da Karagümrüğü kurbünde Muhtesib İskender Bey Mahallesinde Mestçizade Osman Efendi kerimesi Alime Hatun’un binakerdesi olan Dergah-ı el-Şeyh Mustafa Ahi Kadiri"; Stamps of el-Şeyh el-Seyyid Mustafa Sabri el-Kadiri (fol.1r, 4v), el-Şeyh İsmail Hakkı el-Kadiri, 1305/1888 (fol.1r, 4v), Şeyh el-Seyyid Süleyman Safi (fol.4v).
Layout: Written with 13 lines per page, one column in gold and black borders.
Script: Naskh script, black ink with headers, some phrases and dots (durak) in red.
Binding: Marbled paper covers with brown leather spine, flap missing.
Stains and wormholes, not effecting the text; The first folio is laid down, the upper third is gone with lost of the unwan and one or two words in the first line.
With watermark; Catchwords present.
Incipit (4v): بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم - الحمد لله الذي جعل العلماء ... أما بعد أيها الإخوان - كساكم الله ...
Explicit (121v): ... سبحان ربك رب العزت عما يصفون وسلام على المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين - اللهم صل على محمد وأنزله المقعدا المقرب عندك يوم القيامة
Introduction in Arabic; Contains a Turkish prayer (on the endsheet); An Arabic prayer (fol.3r-v); Wird al-sharif (fol.117v-121v) in Arabic; A Turkish poem (fol.122v).
Turkish waqf note on fol.1r, 4v: "İstanbul’da Karagümrüğü kurbünde Muhtesib İskender Bey Mahallesinde Mestçizade Osman Efendi kerimesi Alime Hatun’un binakerdesi olan Dergah-ı el-Şeyh Mustafa Ahi Kadiri"; Stamps of el-Şeyh el-Seyyid Mustafa Sabri el-Kadiri (fol.1r, 4v), el-Şeyh İsmail Hakkı el-Kadiri, 1305/1888 (fol.1r, 4v), Şeyh el-Seyyid Süleyman Safi (fol.4v).
Layout: Written with 13 lines per page, one column in gold and black borders.
Script: Naskh script, black ink with headers, some phrases and dots (durak) in red.
Binding: Marbled paper covers with brown leather spine, flap missing.
Stains and wormholes, not effecting the text; The first folio is laid down, the upper third is gone with lost of the unwan and one or two words in the first line.
With watermark; Catchwords present.
Incipit (4v): بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم - الحمد لله الذي جعل العلماء ... أما بعد أيها الإخوان - كساكم الله ...
Explicit (121v): ... سبحان ربك رب العزت عما يصفون وسلام على المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين - اللهم صل على محمد وأنزله المقعدا المقرب عندك يوم القيامة
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Ahmad al-Rifai, 1118-1182-Biography, Sufism-Biography, Rifaiyah-Biography, Turkish manuscripts-İstanbul-Turkey
Citation
Boogert, Nico, Catalogue 635: Islamic manuscripts, Leiden: Smitskamp, 2002, p.105