MS. Marsh 632 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Contents

Summary of Contents: 10 works by 8 authors on the subjects of Sufism, Islamic eschatology, Aphorisms and apothegms, Prayer, Theology, Qasidas, Forgiveness of sin, and Arabic poetry
1. ff. 5-112
Author: Ghazzālī, 1058-1111
Title: Minhāj al-ʻābidīn ilá jannat rabb al-ʻālamīn.
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 423
[UAM. 155 (1)]
2. ff. 113-142
Author: Ghazzālī, 1058-1111
Title: al-Durrat al-fākhirah fī kashf ʻulūm al-ākhirah
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 421
[UAM. 155 (2)]
3. ff. 143r-166v
Author: Ibn ʻAṭāʼ Allāh, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, d. 1309
Title: al-Ḥikam al-ʻAṭāʼīyah
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 118
[UAM. 155 (3)]
4. ff. 169v-198v
Author: Qārī, Bahā al-Dīn Aḥmad
Title: Mukhtaṣar min kitāb al-jawāhir al-muḥkamah

On the efficacy of prayer

Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Theology
[UAM. 155 (4[i]), with corrig. Nicoll p. 570]
5. ff. 199v-201r
Author: Dallāl al-Kutb, Saʻd ibn ʻAlī, d. 1172 or 3 Ḥazīrī, Saʻd ibn ʻAli ibn al-Qāsim
Title: Qaṣīdah fī naẓm asmá Allāh
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 248
[UAM. 155 (4) end; no. 1 of the poems enumerated by Nicoll p. 570]
6. f. 201v-203r
Author: Anonymous
Title: An unidentified poem
Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Poetry
[UAM. 155 (4) end, no. 2 of the poems enumerated by Nicoll p. 570
7. f. 203v
Author: Abū Madyan, d. 1197 or 8
Title: al-Istighfārah
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 438
[UAM. 155 (4) end, no. 3 of the poems enumerated by Nicoll p. 570]
8. ff. 204r-206r
Author: Kaʻb ibn Zuhayr
Title: Bānat Suʻād
Title: Qaṣīdat al-Burdah
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 39
[UAM. 155 (4, end, poem no. 4 as enumerated by Nicoll p. 570)]
9. ff. 206v-215r
Author: Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd, 1213?-1296?
Title: al-Qaṣīdah al-Hamzīyah fī madḥ khayr al-barīyah
Title: Umm al-qurá fī madḥ khayr al-wará
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 266
[UAM. 155 (4) end, no. 5 of the poems enumerated by Nicoll p. 570]
10. ff. 215v, 216r
Author: Ghazzālī, 1058-1111
Title: Qaṣīdah munfarijah
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 426
[UAM. 155 (4) end, poem no. 6]

Physical Description

Form: codex
108 ff. 30 ff. 24 ff. 30 ff. 3 ff. 3 ff. 1 f. 3 ff. 8 ff. 2 ff.

History

Origin: n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d.

Provenance and Acquisition

The Library of Archbishop Narcissus Marsh, d. 1713.

The Marsh bequest entered the Bodleian Library in 1714.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team.

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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