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Language Turkish, Ottoman Subject Sufism--Early works to 1800

1. Add MS 7835

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Add MS 7835
Title:
Menazilü'l-arifin - منازل العارفين
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a religious treatise by Şemseddin Sivasi. The author says in the preface that 'this year', meaning 993 AH (1585 CE), being distracted by grievous changes in worldly and religious affairs, he was seeking some pious task on which he could centre his thoughts, when he found a s...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1194
Extent:
1 text, 62 ff

2. Or 5824

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Or 5824
Title:
İrşad al-murid ila'l-murad fi tercümat Mirsad al-ibad - ارشاد المريد الى المراد في ترجمة مرصاد العباد
Scope & Content:
This text is an Ottoman Turkish translation of the Mirṣād al-ᶜibād, the well-known Sufi work of Najm al-Dīn Dāyah. The translation, made in 825 AH (1421-22 CE) and dedicated to Sultan Murat II, was completed by Kasım İbn-i Mahmud Karahısari. The current copy of this work is defective at the en...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 text, 128 ff

3. Or 7467

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Or 7467
Title:
Reşadü'l-İbad - رشاد العباد
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an explanation by a certain Zati of the symbolic language of the Sufis. This is most probably the earlier and better-known fo the poets of this name who died in 953 AH (1546-47 CE). The reasons against attributing it to Süleyman Zati (died 1151/1738-39 CE) are the general te...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 text, 21 ff

4. Or 7920

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Or 7920
Title:
[Mecmua]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the following three texts : (I) f 1r : A poem giving the date of the birth of Mehmet Neşet Efendi in the form of a chronogram ; (II) ff 1v-194v : Sergüzeşt, a work by Abdülbaki Efendi, Lalizade, called Sarih-i Mesnevi (died 1159 AH/1746-47 CE), on the practices and belie...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
3 texts, 196 ff

5. Or 8042

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8042
Title:
[Mecmua] - [مجموعه]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a codex of texts primarily in Arabic, as well as some in Ottoman Turkish and Persian. Their contents are as follows : (I) (ff 1r-40r) : Ṭabaqāt al-ᶜulamāʾ al-ḥanafiyah (طبقة العلماء الحنفية), the lives of the Hanafi jurists by Kemalpaşazade, copied by Abdullah in 1035 AH (...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:

8 texts, 195 ff

6. Or 9703

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 9703
Title:
[Mecmua] - [مجموعه]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the following contents : (I) f 1v : An Arabic prayer and a gazel by İzzet ; (II) f 2r : An Ottoman Turkish İlahi ; (III) ff 2v-4r : Ḥikāyat-i Sulṭān al-ᶜārifīn Bāyazīd-i Bisṭāmī (حکایت سلطان العارفین بایزید بسطامی), a Persian poem ; (f 4v blank) (IV) ff 5r-v : Anoth...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
Codex, 222 ff

7. Or 11010

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11010
Title:
[Two Ottoman Turkish Sufi works]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the following two Sufi texts by İsmail Hakkı Celveti of Bursa (died 1137 AH/1724-25 CE) : (I) ff 1v-93v : Hüccetü'l-baliğa, which was copied by Seyit Hafız Mehmet Emin, Hatıp-i Hüdavendigar, in Bursa, in 1241 AH (1825-26 CE) ; (II) ff 94v-177v : Vesiletü'l-meram, complet...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
2 texts, 179 ff

8. Or 11067

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11067
Title:
Futuhat-i Salihi - فتوحات صالحى
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a translation of the Kashf al-hijāb wa'l-rān ᶜan wajh as’ilat al-jānn(كشف الحجاب والران عن وجه اسئلة الجن) of ᶜabd al-Wahhāb al-Shaᶜrānī, which was written in 955 AH (1548-49 CE) and deals with the questions on points of mysticism and theology asked by the Jinn, alongside re...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 text, 85 ff

9. Or 11082

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11082
Title:
Müşevvikü'l-uşşak - مشوق العشاق
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a collection of 49 sermons with a distinct Sufi perspective preached and afterwards collated by İzzeddin Ahmet Efendi Eşrefzade İbn-i Şeyh Eşref-i Sani (died 1152 AH/1739-40 CE). The author, who was the grandson (f 7v) of the famous Abdullah el-Rumi, also known as Eşrefoğlu ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 text, 210 ff

10. Or 11168

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11168
Title:
[Mecmua] - [مجموعه]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the following three tracts : (I) ff 1v-38v : Şeref-i Siyadet, a Shi'i work by Seyit Nizamzade Seyfullah. A Hurufi work written by the same author can be found in Rossi, p. 154, where he is named as Seyfullah İbn-i Nizamuddin İbn-i Şihabuddin Bağdadi; (II) ff 38v-42r : An ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1272
Extent:
3 texts, 50 ff