Firdevs el-mevaiz - فردوس المواعظ

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 13121
  • Dates of Creation
    • 972
  • Language of Material
    • Persian Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • 1 text 90 ff Material : Paper. Foliation : European, 90 ff. Dimensions : 273 mm x 186 mm. Script : Nesih, fully vocalized.

Scope and Content

This volume contains anecdotes of holy personages divided into 20 ebvap. The ten anecdotes in each bab are arranged according to the religious virtues, pious practices, and supernatural gifts that they illustrate. This is a recension, without the name of the author provided, of the Tezkiretü'-evliya, which is said to be a translation from a Persian original ascribed to Abū'l-Layth al-Samarqandī. It differs from Or 3297, however, in having a short preface in Persian (presumably copied from the original work, as there is no mention of the book being a translation) and in the list of chapter-headings which are given in Persian. The ending is also different. At the end of the manuscript are some Aḥādīth and medical prescriptions. There is considerable water staining throughout the work. This manuscript was copied by Ali İbn-i Hacı İskender in 972 AH (1564-65 CE).

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Acquisition Information

Purchased by the British Museum from Mr. M. Polić in May 1968.

Related Material

Another copy of this text can be found at Or 3297. For more information about this work and the author, see Rieu, Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the British Museum, p. 223. For more information on the author, see Yazıcı, İshak, 'Semerkandî, Ebü'l-Leys: Ebü'l-Leys İmâmü'l-hüdâ Nasr b. Muhammed b. Ahmed b. İbrâhim es-Semerkandî (ö. 373/983): Fakih, müfessir ve sûfî,' Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı İslâm Ansiklopedisi. Last accessed: 20 August 2021. https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/semerkandi-ebul-leys.