Tuhfetü'l-haremeyn - تحفة الحرمين

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 7164
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1094
  • Language of Material
    • Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • 1 text 100 ff Materials : Paper. Foliation : Western, 100 ff. Dimensions : 200 mm x 115 mm. Script : Nastaliq.

Scope and Content

This volume contains an account by the poet Nabi (died 1124 AH/1712-13 CE) of a journey made to Mekke and Medine in mixed prose and verse. The text breaks off at f 81v and is followed, without any change of hand, by part of a mystical work, defective at the beginning, apparently entitled Makasıt. There are several works in this category:. (1) A Persian work by Yār ᶜalī translated into Ottoman Turkish by Abdülmecit Sivasi (died 1049 AH/1639-40 CE);. (2) A work entitled Makasıt es-salikin by İbrahim İbn-i Hamza;. (3) A work of the same name by Abdullah el-Bosnavi (died 1054 AH/1644-45 CE), better known for his commentary on the Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam. On f 83v, the writer mentions a certain Baba Husam Veysi as a friend. If the identification with Husamzade Mustafa Efendi (mentioned in OM I, p. 275 as the author of the Haşiye-yi Şerh-i Makasıt) is correct, then the work found here would be the Makasıt es-salikin chronological reasons. The manuscript was copied in 1094 AH (1682-83 CE) by the same hand throughout.

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Related Material

For other copies of the complete first text, please see Or 34 text I; Or 7159 text I; Or 16276; Or 16283; Add MS 7853; and Add MS 7904 text VIII. For more information on the text, please see Rieu, Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the British Museum, p. 113. For more information on the first possible source of the second text, see OM I, pp. 120-192; on the second possible source, see OM I, p. 20; and on the third possible source, please see OM I, p. 43, and Karatay I, p. 58.