Ṣûfism and Ethics [IO Bijapur 420B]

<ul> <li><strong>Ṣ&ucirc;fism and Ethics.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 420B&nbsp;</strong><strong>in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth">&nbsp;<strong>Otto Loth,&nbsp;</strong></a><strong><em><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a></em>, (volume 1), no. 655 here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p>655.</p> <p>B 420B. Size 8^1/2 in. by 5 in.; foll. 47. Mostly twenty-two lines in a page.</p> <p>A Commentary (ممزوج) on <em>Ibn &lsquo;Arab&icirc;&rsquo;s </em>رسالة الغوث , or الغوثية , by an unknown author. See no. 653; cf. Ḥ. Kh. iii. 423; Fl&uuml;gel, Hdss. Wien, iii. 498; and Cat. Mus. Brit. 341.</p> <p>This MS. is imperfect at the beginning. The first words of the text of Ibn &lsquo;Arab&icirc; are : يا غوث جعلت الانسان مطيّتى و جعلت سائر الاكوان مطيّة له.</p> <p>In the conclusion the work is wrongly ascribed to &lsquo;Abd al-ḳ&acirc;dir J&icirc;l&acirc;n&icirc;, who also wrote a treatise with this title (see Ḥ. Kh., 1.c.).</p> <p>Written in Nasta&rsquo;liḳ, almost without diacritical points. Scribe, Jam&acirc;l al-d&icirc;n b. Muḥyi al-d&icirc;n b. Aḥmad Sh&acirc;fi&rsquo;&icirc; Ḳ&acirc;dir&icirc;. Date, Monday, 22nd Jum. II., 1048.</p> <p>Cat. 232, xix.2.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>