AN ARABIC MANUSCRIPT, PRAYER BOOK, HIZB-I KEBIR-I SHADHILI, ...

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£850

AN ARABIC MANUSCRIPT, PRAYER BOOK, HIZB-I KEBIR-I SHADHILI, ALI B. ABDULLAH EBU’L HASAN SAHADHILI(DEATH 1256AD)

"Arabic manuscript on paper,comprising of sura al-An’am, sura al-Ahzab and duas,15ff., 13ll. of black naskh script, lobbed gold roundels between verses, text outlined with gold, black and red, section beginnings within rectangular gold cartouches with flowering branches, marginal notes in red and black, nicely illuminated opening heading in gold and polychrome, colophon dated and signed with red ink, illuminated with gold flowers, black leather binding with central gold illumination, with flap

14,1 x 95 cm
10,3 x 6,2 cm

SIGNED BY SAYYID HAMID HAMDIZADE

Date
DATED 1178AH/1765AD

Sheikh al-Shadhili (593–656 AH) (1196–1258 AD) was an influential Moroccan Islamic scholar and Sufi, founder of the Shadhili Sufi order."