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Language Turkish, Ottoman Subject Muslim saints

1. Or 3297

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Or 3297
Title:
Ha[za kit]ab Tezkiretü'l-evliya ve bihi nestamin - هذ[ا كت]اب تذكرة الاوليا و به نستعمين
Scope & Content:
This volume contains anecdotes of holy personages. The writer, who does not give their name, says that the best means to keep steadfast in the faith, and to escape from the contamination of a wicked world, is to dwell on the lives of the saints, and their merits. This induced him to translate a ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
985
Extent:
1 text, 149 ff

2. Or 13121

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 13121
Title:
Firdevs el-mevaiz - فردوس المواعظ
Scope & Content:
This volume contains anecdotes of holy personages divided into 20 ebvap. The ten anecdotes in each bab are arranged according to the religious virtues, pious practices, and supernatural gifts that they illustrate. This is a recension, without the name of the author provided, of the Tezkiretü'-ev...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
972
Extent:
1 text, 90 ff

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