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Manuscript/Mixed Material Faḍāʼil ḥizb al-dawr al-aʻlá li-Sayyidī Muḥammad al-Fāsī al-Maghribī فضائل حزب الدور الأعلى لسيدي محمد الفاسي المغربي

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Title

  • Faḍāʼil ḥizb al-dawr al-aʻlá li-Sayyidī Muḥammad al-Fāsī al-Maghribī

Other Title

  • فضائل حزب الدور الأعلى لسيدي محمد الفاسي المغربي

Summary

  • Sufi treatise on prayer.

Names

  • Fihrī, Abū Madyan ibn Aḥmad
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 1301 [1893 or 1894]

Headings

  • -  Sufism--Early works to 1800
  • -  Islam--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Genre

  • Devotional literature
  • Prayers

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Title from spine.
  • -  Written by Muḥammad Afandī al-mashhūr bi-Amīn.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; light cream color polished laid paper with horizontal chain lines and a watermark of a crescent moon with a human face in profile in a shield and the countermark of Andrea Galvani, Pordenone; black ink with some rubrication; catchwords.
  • -  Naskh; 11 lines in written area 12 x 7.3 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-24a.
  • -  "29. III 1621 = 3.881."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 3-881.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name at base of spine.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة. الحمد لله وكفي، وسلام على عباده اذين اصطفى. اما بعد فيقول العبد الفقير الى الله والولي العارف بالله، العالم المدقق والفهامة الححقق، مربي المريدين، ومفيد الطالبين سيدي محمد الفاسي ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: وقد اذن بها الشيخ محمد ابندي المشهور بامين بالقراة ولمن شاء في اعمال الخير, تحريره في سنة 1301 الف وثلثماية وواحد.

Medium

  • 24 leaves (11 lines), paper : bound ; 23.8 x 17.5 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP189.55 .F37 1893

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016496637

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

Additional Metadata Formats

IIIF Presentation Manifest

Rights & Access

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, African and Middle East Division, Near East Section Arabic Language Rare Materials Collection

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Chicago citation style:

Fihrī, Abū Madyan Ibn Aḥmad, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Faḍāʼil ḥizb al-dawr al-aʻlá li-Sayyidī Muḥammad al-Fāsī al-Maghribī. [1893 or 1894, 1301] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496637/.

APA citation style:

Fihrī, A. M. I. A., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1301) Faḍāʼil ḥizb al-dawr al-aʻlá li-Sayyidī Muḥammad al-Fāsī al-Maghribī. [1893 or 1894] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496637/.

MLA citation style:

Fihrī, Abū Madyan Ibn Aḥmad, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Faḍāʼil ḥizb al-dawr al-aʻlá li-Sayyidī Muḥammad al-Fāsī al-Maghribī. [1893 or 1894, 1301] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496637/>.