Kitāb al-Futūḥ al-maṣūnah wa-al-asrār al-maknūnah
1 v. ([94] leaves) ; 38 cm.
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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.
Purchased from Worldwide Antiquarian on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2009.
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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