Ṣûfism and Ethics [IO Islamic 2529]

• Ṣûfism and Ethics.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2529 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 615 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

615.

2529. Size 11^3/4 in. by 8 in.; foll. 105. Nine lines in a page.

The Arabic version of GHAZZÂLÎ’S نصيحة الملوك , or Advice to Kings. See Cat. Bodl. ii. 99, and Ḥ. Kh. vi.

352 sq. According to the latter, the work is entitled التبر المسبوك . The name of the translator is not known. The Persian original, which was dedicated to the Saljûḳ Sulṭân Muḥammad b. Malikshâh, is lost.

Written in a large hand, with vowel-points. The greater part of text is accompanied by a Javanese translation, written in the Arabic character.

The rest of the volume contains tracts in Javanese, written in the Arabic character.