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EAP352/7/7
- Record Id:
- 040-003653383
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003653376
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100102763135.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- EAP352/7/7
- Title:
- A miscellany of Sufi texts in Arabic and Malay
- Scope & Content:
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A miscellany of Sufi texts in Arabic and Malay, some attributed to ʻAbd al-Raʼūf al-Singkili and Shams al-Dīn al-Sumatrānī
- Daqāʼq al-Hurūf, a treatise on Sufism with Malay commentary. Arabic text fully covaclised and overlined in red ink. Text ends image 76.
- Bayān Tajalli, of uncertain authorship but attributed to ʻAbd al-Raʼūf. The text elaborates on a zikir to be recited at the threshold of death. Images 81-83.
- (?) al-iʼtiqād, attributed to ʻAbd al-Raʼūf. Also on preparation for death. Ends image 111.
- Text in Malay on wājib al-wujūd, images 112-116.
- 117: Arabic Sufi text on the grades of Being (attributed to Shaykh Faḍl Allāh [al-Burhānpūrī?]); continuing intermittently and bound out of order. With interlinear Malay translation. image 163.
- Kashf asrār al-wujūd, Shams al-Dīn al-Sumatrānī.
Continued texts in Arabic with Malay interlinear commentary, colophon (image 214), illuminated colophons (images 163, 262, 371); diagram on the nature of God/Truth (image 265). These pages may belong to the other texts in this volume.
Physical characteristics: The texts are jumbled and out of order; either the manuscript has been rebound or images are out of order.
Author: ʻAbd al-Raʼūf al-Singkīlī, Shams al-Dīn al-Sumatrānī
- Collection Area:
- Endangered Archives Programme
- Project / Collection:
- Western Sumatra and the Province of Jambi: Collections of Sufi brotherhoods
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003653376
040-003653383 - Is part of:
- EAP352/7 : Haji Nurdin Ismail Collection
EAP352/7/7 : A miscellany of Sufi texts in Arabic and Malay - Hierarchy:
- 032-003653376[0007]/040-003653383
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: EAP352/7
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 373 tiff images
- Digitised Content:
- https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP352-7-7 (opens in a new tab)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Arabic
Malay - Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1700
- End Date:
- 1999
- Date Range:
- 18th century-20th century
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Sumatra, Indonesia
- Access:
- User Conditions:
- Access is for research purposes only
This item is part of the Endangered Archives Programme.
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Digital copies can be viewed online by clicking the thumbnail image or digitised content link.
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- Information About Originals:
- The originals remain a part of the Haji Nurdin Ismail Collection
- Publications:
- Related resource: A. H. Johns, 'Daqā’iq al-Ḥurūf by ‘Abd al-Ra’ūf of Singkel', Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1955), pp. 55-73 & 139-158.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)