Kitāb al-Futūḥ al-maṣūnah wa-al-asrār al-maknūnah
1 v. ([94] leaves) ; 38 cm.
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Details
Creator
ابن علوان، أحمد، ت. 1267
Title
Kitāb al-Futūḥ al-maṣūnah wa-al-asrār al-maknūnah, [1923] / li-Aḥmad ibn ʻAlwān.
كتاب الفتوح المصونة والأسرار المكنونة، [1923] / لأحمد بن علوان.
Physical Description
1 v. ([94] leaves) ; 38 cm.
Language
Arabic
Notes
Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm wa-bi-hi nastaʻīn. Fatʹḥ min al-futūḥ al-maṣūnah wa-al-asrār al-maknūnah al-makhzūnah fī qawlihi taʻālá: 'Fa-sawfa yaʼtī Allah bi-qawmin yuḥibbuhum wa-yuḥibbūnahu'. Qāla al-ʻĀrif al-wāfiq Abū Yazīd al-Maʻānī Aḥmad ibn ʻAlwān al-Yamānī [... ... ...] Allāh min [...] hātayn al-maḥabbatayn min qabli an ..."
البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين. فتح من الفتوح المصونة والأسرار المكنونة المخزونة في قوله تعالى: 'فسوف يأتي الله بقومٍ يحبّهم ويحبّونه'. قال العارف الوافق أبو يزيد المعاني أحمد بن علوان اليماني قد يسّر الله [... ... ...] الله من [...] هاتين المحبتين من قبل أن ..."
23 x 37.5 cm; written surface: 18 x 28 cm, 25-30 lines per page.
Modern binding.
In crude naskhī script, difficult to read in some places; in black ink, on yellowish paper; catchwords.
Colophon: "Wa-kāna al-farāgh min nāsikhihi (i.e. naskh) hādhā al-kitāb al-mubārak nahār al-Jumʻah dukhūla arbaʻ ayyām min shahr Ramaḍān al-karīm sanat 1341 bi-khaṭṭ ... Muḥammad ibn Ghālib ibn Ḥasan ibn Ḥusayn al-Mīmāwī [?] nasaban wa-al-Shāfiʻī madhhaban wa-ʻaqīdatan wa-al-Yafrusī baladan ..."
الخاتمة: "وكان الفراغ من ناسخه (أي نسخ) هذا الكتاب المبارك نهار الجمعة دخول أربع أيام من شهر رمضان الكريم سنة 1341 بخط ... محمد بن غالب بن حسن بن حسين الميماوي [؟] نسبًا والشافعي مذهبًا وعقيدةً واليفرسي بلدًا ..."
In Arabic.
Summary
Manuscript on sufism in prose and poetry by Abū al-ʻAbbās Ṣafī al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn ʻAlwān (d. 1267), a famous Ṣūfī author and poet from the village of Yafrus, a suburb of Taʻizz, Yemen. Copied by Muḥammad ibn Ghālib ibn Ḥasan ibn Ḥusayn al-Mīmāwī (?), a copyist from the author's hometown on Friday 4 Ramaḍān, 1341 (20 April, 1923).
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September 29, 2011
References
Aḥmad ibn ʻAlwān, Kitāb al-Futūḥ al-maṣūnah wa-al-asrār al-maknūnah. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Aḥmad ibn ʻAlwān, Kitāb al-Futūḥ al-maṣūnah wa-al-asrār al-maknūnah. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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