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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6559, ff 59v-68v
Title:: Safīnat al-Najāʾ
Scope & Content:: Copy of "The Ship of Salvation", a Sufi devotional work by Aḥmad Zurrūq (1442–1493)
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 10 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6559, ff 69r-73v
Title:: Commentary or accompanying work to the Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt
Scope & Content:: Instructions for the prayer one performs before reading the Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt, a popular book of prayers. Lines in red designate prayers for the Prophets from Adam to Muhammad and may have been lifted from the text. F. 73r-73v is an addition in black ink by a later hand mentioning ways to protec...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 6 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6559, ff 74r-81r
Title:: Supplication
Scope & Content:: Same supplication as 42r. The work is introduced and concluded by a number table and instructions for making the supplication effective. The colophon is simply decorated and includes the copyist and writer, as for the supplication at 42r. The colophon states Hārūn Ibn Idrīs al-Mushriqī is the cop...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 8 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6559, ff 82r-83v
Title:: Duʿāʾ ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī
Scope & Content:: A supplication of Sufi saint Abdul Qādir a-Jīlānī, founder of the Qādirīyah Sufi order, preceded by an explanation of the prayer and how to recite it. Consuming or washing in water that has come in contact with this prayer is said to give one the power of invisibility.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 2 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6559, ff 91r-109v
Title:: Duʿāʾ Saʿd Ibn Saliyā
Scope & Content:: A superior copy of the work appearing in folios 1r-27v of this manuscript entitled "al-Kanz al-Aʿẓam" (the greater treasure) about miracles within the Qur’an and the numbers of various things (hearts, stars, souls) to be recited in ritual practice (dhikr), although this time without number tables...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 19 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6559, ff 110r-125v
Title:: Selection of devotional Sufi works
Scope & Content:: A compendium of Sufi works, presumably put together by a member of the Qādirīyah namely: 1. An anonymous work in praise of the Prophet 2. The Kanz al-Aʿẓam of ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī (1077–1166), which the author says he heard from his master, Muḥammad al-Ghazālī 3. The prayer of Muḥammad Ibn ʿAr...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 16 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6559, ff 126r-127v
Title:: Supplication
Scope & Content:: An anonymous supplication in ornate, Hausa-influenced script.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 2 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6559, ff 128r-129v
Title:: Duʿāʾ Anas Ibn Malik
Scope & Content:: A supplication attributed to Anas Ibn Malik, founder of the Maliki school, to be said at morning and evening, followed by two number tables in an untidy hand.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 2 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6559, ff 130r-143v
Title:: Selection of instructions for ritual practice
Scope & Content:: This work is a composite of several different works, copied in the same hand, concerning similar subjects. 1. A manual on ritual recitation of certain verses of the Qur'an. Instructions involving reciting certain verses (including the Throne Verse (2:225)) at certain times of day, a given number ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 14 ff

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