كتاب الاخلاق المسمى بتزكية الارواح عن موانع الافلاح / للشيخ الامام العالم الفاضل ابي الغنائم عبد الرزاق السجستاني

Kitāb al-akhlāq al-musammá bi-Tazkiyat al-arwāḥ ʻan mawāniʻ al-aflāḥ / lil-Shaykh al-imām al-ʻālim al-fāḍil Abī al-Ghanāʾim ʻAbd al-razzāq al-Sijistānī.

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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
Irbil, [1345 or 1346]
Description
i, 113, i leaves : paper ; 145 x 110 (105 x 75) mm. bound to 145 x 115 mm.

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    Summary note
    Careful copy of a treatise on ethics (ʻilm al-akhlāq), based on Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (see fol. 4, l. 5), comprising an introduction, three maqālāt, and a khātimah (see fol. 5a, l. 8), discussing the various kinds of vice and the way to avoid them, together with a discussion of the various virtues to be attained. Name of author supplied according to GAL (not mentioned in Kashf al-ẓunūn).
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title from fol. 2a.
    • Physical description: 13 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink (faded to brown), with use of red for headings, re-inking, and text-stops. Some words are re-written by a later hand in black ink. Diagram on fol. 77a. Soft cream paper, hardly translucid, with pulp visible ; laid lines visible on some leaves. Fol. 1 and 113 are later additions. Occasional marginal annotations by a later hand. The text has been collated. Inscriptions on fol. 112b-113b. Wear, some leaves hardly legible.
    • Origin: According to colophon, copied for himself by Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd al-Qāhir ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Shahrazūrī in Irbil, 746 H. (fol. 112a). Collation statement in the name of ʻAbd al-Salām Ibn Shaṭṭī ... al-Ḥanbalī al-Qādirī, in the Jāmiʻ al-Umawī on fol. 113b.
    • Incipit: الهم لك الحمد(؟) على ---؟ من ذاتك ومن كل من خصصت بالتبيين لانك انت الملك الحق المبين الباعث لنا منك اليك والمعين ... [3ب] وبعد فاني طالما تشوقت الى ارتقاء مدارج الملكوت واعتلا معارج الجبروت
    • Explicit: ويقرآ سبحانه بلسان ديموميته وينشى عن سلطان [---] ان قيموميته كل من عليها فان ويبقى وجهك [---] الجلالة والاكرام والحمد لله رب العالمين
    Provenance
    • Several ownership statements on fol. 2a, in the name of Abū Bakr ibn Rustam al-Shirwānī (repeated); of Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Aḥmad al-Abarqūhī, dated Damascus, Jumādá al---? -68 (see al-Dawʾ al-lāmiʻ, vol. 7, p. 132, no. 316) ; of Muḥammad al-Ḥbātī , dated Jumādá II 48 ; of Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Shahrazūrī ; of ʻAbd al-Salām Ibn al-marḥūm al-shaykh ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Ibn al-marḥūm al-shaykh Muṣṭafá Ibn al-marḥūm al-shaykh Maḥmūd al-Shaṭṭī al-Ḥanbalī al-Qādirī al-Dimashqī, dated 1280 H. [1863 or 4] ; impression of a large oval stamp in the name of Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī Ibn al-ʻAṭṭār , "khādim al-fiqh wa-al-āthār", dated 1200 H. Several ownership statements on fol. 1a: one in the name of Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd al-Nawawī ; one partially erased in the name of Muḥammad Ṣādiq ---?, dated 126 8 H. Acquired by Robert Garrett from the books of Murād Bey al-Bārūdī, Beirut, 1925.
    • Brown paper over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Blind stamped central mandorla and outer border consisting of fillets.
    • Several ownership statements on fol. 2a, in the name of Abū Bakr ibn Rustam al-Shirwānī(?) (repeated); of Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Aḥmad al-Abarqūhī, dated Damascus, Jumādá al---? -68 (see al-Dawʾ al-lāmiʻ, vol. 7, p. 132, no. 316) ; of Muḥammad al-Ḥbātī(?), dated Jumādá II 48 ; of Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Shahrazūrī ; of ʻAbd al-Salām Ibn al-marḥūm al-shaykh ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Ibn al-marḥūm al-shaykh Muṣṭafá Ibn al-marḥūm al-shaykh Maḥmūd al-Shaṭṭī al-Ḥanbalī al-Qādirī al-Dimashqī, dated 1280 H. [1863 or 4] ; impression of a large oval stamp in the name of Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī Ibn al-ʻAṭṭār(?), "khādim al-fiqh wa-al-āthār", dated 1200 H. Several ownership statements on fol. 1a: one in the name of Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd al-Nawawī ; one partially erased in the name of Muḥammad Ṣādiq ---?, dated 126(?)8 H. Acquired by Robert Garrett from the books of Murād Bey al-Bārūdī, Beirut, 1925.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    • Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1936
    • Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 281/17 ; SN II, 281/17
    • Kâtip Çelebi. Kashf al-ẓunūn (ed. Fluegel), vol. II, p. 286
    Other title(s)
    • تزكية الارواح عن موانع الافلاح
    • تزكية الارواح للسجستاني
    Title in preamble (fol. 5a, l. 7)
    • Tazkiyat al-arwāḥ ʻan mawāniʻ al-aflāḥ
    Title from inscription on fol. 1a and tail of text block
    • Tazkiyat al-arwāḥ lil-Sijistānī
    OCLC
    181372341
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