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Or 14081

Record Id:

032-003951781

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Or 14081

Title:

Teshilü't-tarika - تسهيل الطريقه

Scope & Content:

This volume contains an abridged translation from the Arabic of al-Ṭarīqat al-Muḥammadiyah (الطريقة المحمدية), a lengthy work on Islamic ethics and doctrine written by the famous Ottoman religious scholar Mehmet Pir Ali Birgili (or Birgevi or Birkavi) (died 981 AH/1573-74 CE).

The Teshilü't-tarika is the work of İbrahim Babatağı. The contents of the current work are: Aḥādīth on fasting (f 2r); a list of the contents of the chapters (ff 2v-5r); the main text (ff 6v-267v); ethical diagrams (f 268r); notes by an Ottoman reader on the contents of some of the folios of this work (ff 269r-271r).

The text contains numerous marginal annotations.

This manuscript was copied by Mustafa İbn-i Musa el-Babatağı and collated with the original manuscript. It is dated 18 Şaban 1164 AH (12 July 1751 CE).

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 text, 271 ff

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Turkish, Ottoman

Scripts:

Arabic

Start Date:

1751

End Date:

1751

Date Range:

1164

Calendar:

Hijri qamari

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material : Paper

Foliation : European, 271 ff

Dimensions : 213 mm x 150 mm

Ruling : Red-ruled margins; text block measures 159 mm x 96 mm (except ff 269-271); 23 lines, catchwords

Script : Nesih

Ink : Main text in black ink with red headings and overlinings

Binding : 19th century Ottoman binding in blue leather with flap, gilt tooled floral motifs, roundels and tuğra

Source of Acquisition:

Purchased by the British Library from E. J. Brill of Leiden in March 1982.

Information About Copies:

Manuscripts of the original Arabic text and its commentaries are listed in considerable number in GAL, except for the current one.

Tahir mentions a manuscript of the Teshil in the library at Manastir (North Macedonia), but since the present manuscript is dated 1164 AH, the date of 1184 AH given in Tahir's work as the date at which the Teshil was completed must be a misprint of the former date.

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:

For more information on Birgili, see GAL II, pp. 440-42, and S. II, pp. 654-58.

For more information on İbrahim Babatağı and his oeuvre, see OM I, p. 259.