MS. Whinfield 8 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Summary of Contents: 7 works by 6 authors on the subjects of Moral exhortation, Sufism, Mysticism, Caliphs, Islam, and Theology
1. ff. 1v, 2r
Author: Suhrawardī, ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad, 1145-1234
Title: Waṣīyah

To his son ʻImād al-Dīn

Language(s): Arabic

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GAL I 441
[Beeston Pers. 2827 (1)]
2. ff. 12v-13r
Author: ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī, d. 1166
Title: Questions and answers on Sufic doctrine

Supposed to have been exchanged between God and Jīlī [an extract from one of his works?]

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 435, 6
[Beeston Pers. 2827 (5)]
3. ff. 13v-14v
Author: Ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240
Title: Ḥilyat al-abdāl wa-mā yaẓhar fīhā min al-maʻarif wa-al-ahwāl
Language(s): Arabic

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GAL I 444
[Beeston Pers. 2827 (6)]
4. ff. 154r-155r
Author: Anonymous
Title: A legend concerning Hammām, a companion of ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, ca. 600-661
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Traditions
[Beeston Pers. 2827 (24)]
5. ff. 156v-157v
Author: Ghazzālī, 1058-1111
Title: al-ʻAqīdah al-qudsīyah
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 421
[Beeston Pers. 2827 (25)]
6. ff. 179v-182v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Taʻarruf al-arwāḥ fī mashāhid al-ashbāḥ

A mystical treatise in four qawāʻid

The authorʼs teacher and patron was a certain ʻIzz al-Dīn Aydamur

Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Mysticism
[Beeston Pers. 2827 (30)]
7. ff. 190v-192r
Author: Tibrīzī, Abū al-Maḥāmid Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Malik, al-Ashʻarī 11th cent.
Title: An extract on the two sorts of knowledge
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 433
[Beeston Pers. 2827 (33)]

Physical Description

Form: codex
2 ff. 2 ff. 2 ff. 2 ff. 2 ff. 4 ff. 3 ff.

History

Origin: 17th cent. CE 17th cent. CE 17th cent. CE 1612 CE 17th cent. CE 17th cent. CE 17th cent. CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Sir Edward Henry Whinfield, d. 1922.

The Whinfield manuscripts were bequeathed to the Indian Institute, Oxford, in 1922, and later transferred to the Bodleian Library.

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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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