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Dalāʼil al-khayrāt : printed text
Creator
جزولي، محمد بن سليمان، 1404-1465.
Uniform Title
Dalāʼil al-khayrāt
دلائل الخيرات
Title
Dalāʼil al-khayrāt : printed text / Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Jazūlī.
دلائل الخيرات : مخطوطة / محمد بن سليمان الجزولي.
Production
Cairo, 19th century.
Physical Description
1 volume (256 pages) ; 10 cm
Language
Arabic
Notes
Title from reference sources.
Romanization supplied by cataloger.
Incipit (folio 1b): "Iftitāḥ 'Dalāʼil al-khayrāt'. Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn. Ḥasbiya Allāh wa-niʻma al-wakīl. Wa-lā ḥawla wa-lā qūwata illā billāh al-ʻAlī al-ʻAẓīm. Allāhumma ..."
البداية (الورقة 1ب): "افتتاح 'دلائل الخيرات'. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله ربّ العالمين. حسبي الله ونعم الوكيل. ولا حول ولا قوة إلّا بالله العلي العظيم. اللّهم ..."
Secundo folio: bi-al-ṣalāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad ʻabdika wa-nabīyika wa-rasūlika Sayyid al-Mursalīn.
بداية الورقة الثانية: بالصلاة على سيدنا محمد عبدك ونبيك ورسولك سيد المرسلين.
6.5 x 9.2 cm; printed surface: 4.5 x 7 cm; 10 lines per page.
Binding: In dark brown leather with flap; front cover embossed with central medallion (with an illegible writing), back cover embossed with a pentacle inside a crescent.
Printed in naskh script, in black ink, on thin cream color paper.
On the accompanying envelope (in pencil): "Small Arabic book, bought in Feb. 1908, near a café in Cairo [by?] D. B. Macdonald."
On a laid in slip of paper: A statement in which can be read the words "Cairo", "Hasanaya", and "1908".
Written on an accompanying card (in pencil): Title of the book, name of the author, and n.d.
Colophon: "Ṭubiʻat ʻalá dhimmat Ḥaḍrat al-Shaykh Muḥammad al-Milījī al-Kutubī bi-jiwār al-Azhar."
الخاتمة: "طبعت على ذمة حضرة الشيخ محمد المليجي الكتبي بجوار الأزهر."
Translation of the colophon: "Printed by Ḥaḍrat al-Shaykh Muḥammad al-Milījī al-Kutubī, in the vicinity of al-Azhar."
In Arabic.
Forms part of the Hartford Seminary Collection. For a description of the collection, search by call number: Hartford Seminary.
Provenance
Purchased from Hartford Seminary on the Beinecke Rare Book & Capital Reserve Fund, 2005.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Summary
A miniature copy of "Dalāʼil al-khayrāt" (Guides to blisses), also known by its longer title "Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa-shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-Nabī al-Mukhtār" (Guides to blisses and shining lights in the mention of prayer on the Chosen Prophet), a well-known collection of prayers and devotions to the Prophet Muḥammad, by Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Jazūlī, a Maghribī scholar and well-known Sufi, of the Shadhilīyah Sufi order, of Berber decent, founder of the Ṣūfī order called "Jazūlīyah", after his own name. Printed in Cairo by Ḥaḍrat al-Shaykh Muḥammad al-Milījī al-Kutubī bi-jiwār al-Azhar. Date of printing not mentioned, probably in the 19th century.
Variant and related titles
Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa-shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-Nabī al-Mukhtār
دلائل الخيرات وشوارق الأنوار في ذكر الصلاة على النبي المختار
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
March 06, 2023
References
Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Jazūlī, Dalāʼil al-khayrāt. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Jazūlī, Dalāʼil al-khayrāt. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Arabic - 19th century.
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