Sufism and Ethics [622] Essays of al-Jīlānī

• Sufism and Ethics.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic B464 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 622 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

622.

B 464. Size 10^1/2 in. by 7^1/4 in.; foll. 45. Twenty-five lines in a page.

A collection of various short Essays on Ṣûfism, by ‘ABD AL-ḲÂDIR GÎLÂNÎ, concluding with a biographical notice. The name of the compiler is not mentioned.

Well written, but imperfect both at the beginning and end. The first words are وقف عليه . The essays are introduced by the words و قال رضه.

Foll. 43-45. Another fragment, written in the same hand, containing notices of eminent Shaikhs and theologians.