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Add MS 7835
- Record Id:
- 032-003949891
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003949891
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100126261029.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 7835
- Title:
- Menazilü'l-arifin - منازل العارفين
- Scope & Content:
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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 suitable theme in a passage occurring in one of the treatises of Şeyh-ül-İslâm Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī. Having made that work his companion in the seclusion of exile, he determined to translate it as a guide to the pious.
The treatise is divided, according to the aforementioned preface, into the following four menazil: (I) Knowledge of one's self (f 3v); (II) Knowledge of God (f 27v); (III) Knowledge of the world (f 32r); and (IV) Knowledge of the world to come (f 41v).
The work is in prose, frequently interspersed with Ottoman Turkish verses of the author's own composition. It does not agree with any of the known works of al-Ghazzālī, but its four divisions correspond exactly with those of the preliminary discourse of the Kīmiyā-yi Saᶜādat (كمياى سعادت).
Şemseddin Sivasi, whose given name was Ahmet İbn-i Mehmet, and whose mahlas was Şemsi, wrote in 996 AH (1587-88 CE) a mystical poem entitled Gülşenabad (see Or 13369) and, in 1001 AH (1592-93 CE), another in praise of Abu Ḥanīfah. In his old age, he accompanied Sultan Mehmet III in the campaign of Erlau (1005 AH/1596-97 CE) and died shortly thereafter. His nephew, Abdülmecit Şeyhi, who had succeeded him as Şeyh of the Halvetiler in Sivas, was then called by the Sultan to İstanbul, where he enjoyed the protection of the Müftü Sanullah (1008-11 AH/1599-1603 CE).
This manuscript is dated Safer 1194 AH (February-March 1780 CE).
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003949891
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003949891
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 text, 62 ff
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Turkish, Ottoman
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1780
- End Date:
- 1780
- Date Range:
- 1194
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material : Paper
Foliation : European, 62 ff
Dimensions : 203 mm x 121 mm
Ruling : Ruled margins, 60 mm long, 19 lines
Script : Nesih
- Custodial History:
- Formerly manuscript no. 332 in the Rich Collection.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Acquired by the British Museum from the collection of Sir Claudius Rich.
- Information About Copies:
- A very similar, if not identical work, is described in Krafft, No. 1541, from an imperfect copy that is lacking the author's name.
- Finding Aids:
- See Rieu, Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the British Museum, pp. 18-19.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Subjects:
- Sufism--Early works to 1800
- Places:
- Ottoman Empire, Africa/Asia/Europe
- Related Material:
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Other copies of the Menazilü'l-arifin can be found at Or 12179 text IV and Add MS 7840 text II.
Other poetry by Şemsi can be found at Or 7113 text II (Deh mürg), Or 7203 (Deh mürg), Or 9476 (Divan), Or 11567 (Mevlidü'n-nebi), and Or 13369 (Gülşenabad).
For more information about Şemsi, see SO III, p. 165; Flügel, Vienna Catalogue III, pp. 307-08; Haj. Khal III, p. 118.
Haj. Khal. VI, p. 131 gives 1006 AH (1597-98 CE) as the date of composition of the Menazilü'l-arifin, and names the author as Abdülmecit İbn-i Muharrem, the aforementioned nephew, who died in 1049 AH (1639-40 CE).
For more information about the Kīmiyā-yi Saᶜādat, see Fleischer, Dresden Catalogue, No. 255; and Gosche, Abhandlungen der Akademie zu Berlin, 1858, p. 300.
- Related Archive Descriptions:
- Add MS 7840
Or 12179