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Paris

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Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Collection

Manuscrits Persans

Shelfmark

Supplément persan 113

Contents

Work 1: Kitāb al-ḥurūf (Ibn Ḥammūyah, Muḥammad ibn al-Muʼayyad, 1192?-1252?)

LOC subject headings

Sufism

Cabala (Early works to 1800)

Author

Ibn Ḥammūyah, Muḥammad ibn al-Muʼayyad, 1192?-1252?

ابن حموية، محمد بن المؤيد

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Ibn Ḥammūyah, Muḥammad ibn al-Muʼayyad, 1192?-1252? (authorised)

Muḥammad ibn al-Muʼayyad ibn Ḥammūyah, 1192?-1252? (variant)

Ibn Ḥamawayh, Muḥammad ibn al-Muʼayyad, 1192?-1252? (variant)

Juwaynī, Muḥammad ibn al-Muʼayyad, 1192?-1252? (variant)

Ḥamawī, Muḥammad ibn al-Muʼayyad, 1192?-1252? (variant)

ابن حموية، محمد بن المؤيد،, 1192?-1252? (variant)

محمد بن المؤيد بن حموية،, 1192?-1252? (variant)

ابن حمويه، محمد بن المؤيد،, 1192?-1252? (variant)

جويني، محمد بن المؤيد،, 1192?-1252? (variant)

حموي، محمد بن المؤيد،, 1192?-1252? (variant)

Title

Kitāb al-ḥurūf

کتاب الحروف

Notes

Treatise on the cabalistic value of letters in the Arabic alphabet

Main language of text

Persian

Foliation

ff. 1-10

Bibliography

Catalogue

Blochet, Edgar. Catalogue des manuscrits persans. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1905-34, 149.

Work 2: Treatise on different types of Saints (Anonymous)

LOC subject headings

Sufism

Author

Anonymous

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Anonymous (authorised)

Title

Treatise on different types of Saints

Notes

Main language of text

Persian

Foliation

f. 11

Bibliography

Catalogue

Blochet, Edgar. Catalogue des manuscrits persans. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1905-34, 149.

Work 3: al-ʻarf bayna al-maqām wa al-ḥāl (Anonymous)

LOC subject headings

Sufism

Author

Anonymous

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Anonymous (authorised)

Title

al-ʻarf bayna al-maqām wa al-ḥāl

العرف بین المقام و الحال

Notes

A fragment in Persian on the difference that separates the states of ecstasy

Main language of text

Persian

Foliation

ff. 12-13

Bibliography

Catalogue

Blochet, Edgar. Catalogue des manuscrits persans. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1905-34, 149.

Work 4: Two works, one in Arabic and one in Persian (Anonymous)

LOC subject headings

Sufism

Author

Anonymous

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Anonymous (authorised)

Title

Two works, one in Arabic and one in Persian

Notes

One of the works consists of a Sufi prayer entitled al-khiṭbah ahl al-irādah (الخطبة أهل الارادة ) and the other of the story of an adventure attributed to the famous Ibrāhīm ibn Adʹham, -approximately 777

Main language of text

Persian

Foliation

f. 14

Bibliography

Catalogue

Blochet, Edgar. Catalogue des manuscrits persans. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1905-34, 149.

Work 5: Tabṣirat al-Mubtadi (Naṣīr al-Dīn Mahmud b. Ahmad Khū’ī, fl. fl. mid 6th/13th century)

LOC subject headings

Sufism

Theodicy

Author

Naṣīr al-Dīn Mahmud b. Ahmad Khū’ī, fl. fl. mid 6th/13th century

نصير الدين محمود بن احمد الخويي

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Khūyī

Naṣīr al-Dīn Mahmud b. Ahmad Khū’ī , fl. mid 6th/13th century (authorised)

نصير الدين محمود بن احمد الخويي (variant)

Biographical notes

According to his nisba he was from Khūy (Iran) and apparently lived in Konya (Turkey). Nothing is known of the life of this author, and even the attribution of works to him has been debated by modern scholars despite unambiguous references to him as the author in manuscripts. Judging by the formula with which his name is mentioned in the earliest manuscript, Suleymaniye Library, Halet Ek 92, he must have been dead by the time that work was copied in 660 AH [1262 CE]. The field has been muddied by Naṣīr al-Dīn Khū’ī’s identification with the semi-mythical figure of Ahi Evren, اخي اوران, the purported founder of akhī groups in Anatolia (see (Bayram, Mikail. Ahi Evren ve Ahi Teşkilatı’nın Kuruluşu. Konya.: 1991.) ). This can certainly not be sustained, as it is based on assuming the identity of Naṣīr al-Dīn Khū’ī with the full name of Ahi Evren as given in his waqfiyya, Nāṣir al-Dīn Pīr-i Pīrān Akhī Evren (or Evrān) ناصر الدين بير بيران اخي اوران. Nāṣir ناصر and Naṣīr نصير are however, quite different words and cannot be interchanged. The waqfiyya also contains no reference to the Khuy nisba that our author holds. In addition, all the indications are that Ahi Evren probably died in the 8th century [1300-1399 CE] early , whereas Naṣīr al-Dīn Khū’ī, judging by the manuscripts, must have been active in the mid thirteenth century; he was certainly writing before 660 AH [1262 CE], the date of the earliest extant manuscript. Naṣīr al-Dīn Khū’ī’s extant works bear strong similarities to the style and approach of Ṣadr al-Dīn Qunawī, and have been published with attributions to that author. Chittick ( (Chittick, William C.. Faith and Practice of Islam: Three Thirteenth Century Sufi Texts. Albany: 1992., pp. 255)) argues he may have been a member of Qunawī’s circle. However, the only near-contemporary who is directly referred to in the texts is Awḥad al-Dīn Kirmānī . For a discussion of authorship, see (Chittick, William C.. Faith and Practice of Islam: Three Thirteenth Century Sufi Texts. Albany: 1992., pp. 255-62).

The attribution of this work to Naṣīr al-Dīn Mahmud b. Ahmad Khū’ī, fl. fl. mid 6th/13th century is uncertain

Title

Tabṣirat al-Mubtadi

تبصرة المبتدئ

Notes

The text aims to explain the three principles of Islam: tawḥīd (God’s unity), nubuwwa (prophecy), and ma‘ād (eschatology)

It has been suggested by Chittick ( (Chittick, William C.. Faith and Practice of Islam: Three Thirteenth Century Sufi Texts. Albany: 1992., pp. 256-7)) that this work may be by Naṣīr al-Dīn Khū’ī, as is is found together in the same manuscript and share a similar style and interests with the Maṭāli’ al-Īmān. However, their authorship must be regarded as very uncertain.

The attribution of this work is extremely confused. While several manuscripts attribute it to Ṣadr al-Dīn Qunawī, others mention Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Bayḍāwī or Fakhr al-Dīn Rāzī as the author. Others have no attribution at all, and it was probably the lack of any such attribution in early mss that led to the confusion.

This appears to be a wrong attribution to Qūnawī, see (Chittick, William, C.. "Spectrums of Islamic Thought: Saʿīd al-Dīn Farghānī on the Implications of Oneness and Manyness." In The Legacy of Mediaeval Persian Sufism. Lewisohn, Leonard, ed. London: 1992, 203-17., pp. 255-62)

Main language of text

Persian

Foliation

ff. 15-48

Bibliography

Catalogue

Blochet, Edgar. Catalogue des manuscrits persans. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1905-34, 149.

Work 6: Mas̲navī-i Maulānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273)

LOC subject headings

Persian literature

Sufi poetry, Persian

Masnavis, Persian

Persian poetry 747-1500

Sufism (Early works to 1800)

Author

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273

جلال الدين رومي، مولانا

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Celâleddin-i Rûmı̂, Mevlâna, 1207-1273

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273 (authorised)

Balkhī, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Balkhi, Jalaludin Mohammad, Mawlana, ‏1207-1273 (variant)

Balkhy, Jallal ed-Din Muhammad, 1207-1273 (variant)

Celâleddin-i Rûmı̂, Mevlâna, 1207-1273 (variant)

Celâleddin Rûmı̂, Mevlâna, 1207-1273 (variant)

D̲jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Djalâl-od-Dîn Rûmî, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Dschalaluddin Rumi, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Dschelal-Eddin Rumi, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Dschelaladdin Rumi, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Dschelaleddin Rumi, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Dzhalaliddin Rumi, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Dzhaloluddin Balkhii Rumi, Mavlono, 1207-1273 (variant)

Dzhaloluddin Rumi, 1207-1273 (variant)

Ǧalāladdīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Gialâl ad-Dîn Rûmî, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Jalāl ad-Dīn ar-Rūmī, Mawlāna, 1207-1273 (variant)

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Mawlana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Jalal-e Din Rumi, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Jalal Eddine Rûmi, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Jalal-ud-din Rumi, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Jalāladdīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Jalaladdin Rumi, Mawlana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Jalālauddīna Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Jalálu-ʼd-ʼDín Muhammad i Rúmí, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Jalāluddīn Balk̲h̲ī Rumī, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Jalaluddin Mohammad Rumi, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Jalāluddīn Muḥammad Balk̲h̲ī Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Jalaluʼddin Rumi, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Jaláluddin Rumi, Mevlana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Jalaludin Mohammad Balkhi, Mawlana, ‏1207-1273 (variant)

Jallal ed-Din Muhammad Balkhy, 1207-1273 (variant)

Jallal Molavi Rumi, Molana, ‏1207-1273 (variant)

Jaloliddin Rumiy, 1207-1273 (variant)

Jaloluddin Muḣammadi Rumī, Mavlono, 1207-1273 (variant)

Jelaluddin Rumi, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Jelaluddin Rumi, Mevlana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Jolalud-Din Rumi, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Mavlono Jaloluddin Muḣammadi Rumī, 1207-1273 (variant)

Mevlâna, 1207-1273 (variant)

Mowlavi, 1207-1273 (variant)

Roumi, Tzalalountin, 1207-1273 (variant)

Rum, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Rūmī, 1207-1273 (variant)

Rūmī, Jalāl al-Dīn, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Rumi, Jalal-e Din, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Rumi, Jalaladdin, Mawlana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Rūmī, Jalālauddīna, Maulana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Rumi, Jaláluddin, 1207-1273 (variant)

Rumi, Jallal Molavi, Molana, ‏1207-1273 (variant)

Rumi, Mawlana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Rumi, Mevlana Jaláluddin, 1207-1273 (variant)

Rumiĭ, Zhaloliddin, 1207-1273 (variant)

Rumiy, Jaloliddin, 1207-1273 (variant)

Rumy, Jelaleddin, 1207-1273 (variant)

Tzalalountin Roumi, 1207-1273 (variant)

Ŷalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Mevlana, 1207-1273 (variant)

Zhaloliddin Rumiĭ, 1207-1273 (variant)

Джалолуддин Руми, 1207-1273 (variant)

Джалолуддин Балхии Руми, Mavlono, 1207-1273 (variant)

بلخى، مولانا جلال الدين محمد بن محمد, مولانا (variant)

جلال الدين بلخى رومى،, مولانا (variant)

جلال الدين رومي،, مولانا،, 1207-1273 (variant)

‏جلال الدين رومى،‏, ‏Maulana,‏, ‏1207-1273 (variant)

جلال الدين رومى،, مولانا (variant)

رومي، مولانا جلال الدين،, مولانا (variant)

رومى (variant)

Biographical notes

According to some sources, he was born on Rabīʿ I 604 [1207 CE] in Balkh ( (Bausani, A. and H. Ritter. "D̲j̲alāl al-Dīn Rūmī." Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. , [n.d.] referenceworks.brillonline.com.)). Generally known by his nickname Maulana, he was a Persian Sufi poet and the ideological founder of the Mawlawīyah Sufi order. He was the son of the Sufi thinker Bahāʼ al-Dīn Valad, 1150-1231 and together they migrated westwards when Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī was five years old. His family eventually settled in Anatolia after travelling across Central Asia, Iran and Iraq. Before taking up residence in Larende (Karaman), the family was for different periods of time in other Anatolian cities such as Sivas and the region close to Erzincan. Finally, at the request of the Seljuq prince Kayqubad I, Sultan of the Seljuks, -1237 ( (Aflākī, Shams al-Dīn Aḥmad. The feats of the knowers of God : Manāqeb al-ʻārefīn. Translated by O'Kane, John. Leiden: Brill, 2002., pp. 22)), they finally moved to Konya in 626 AH [1227-1228 CE]. It was in this city where Maulana became an influential religious leader close to the Seljuq court and where the Sufi order based on his teachings was to be developed. He had two main wives and a number of sons and daughters. Among them is Sulṭān Valad, 1226-1312, who was the real person who began the organisation of the Mawlawīyah Sufi order and succeeded his father as leader of his followers after his death. Different works by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī and compossed in the city of Konya have survived and arrived to our days. A collection of short ghazals and quatrains in Persian can be found in his Divān, there is also a collection of his sayings in the Fīhi mā fīh and letters written by him (Maktūbāt). However, the most famous of his work is the Mas̱navī-i maʻnavī, a didactic poetical work that became one of the key texts in Persian literature. Maulana died on the 5 Jumāda II 672 [1273 CE] in Konya.

Title

Mas̲navī-i Maulānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī

مثنوی مولانا جلال الدين رومی

Notes

The work is a vast collection of moral precepts and religious reflexions, with comments on texts from the Qur'ān, and sayings of the Prophet, illustrated by numerous anecdotes

This manuscript contains only a fragment of the work

Main language of text

Persian

Foliation

f. 49

Bibliography

Editions

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana. Mas̲navī-i maʻnavī. Edited by Humāʼī, Jalāl al-Dīn and Mahdī Muḥaqqiq,. Tehran: Anjuman-i Tarvīj-i Zabān va Adab-i Fārsī-yi Īrān, 1386 [2007]. (<p><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;" lang="EN-US">This work consists of a facsimile edition</span></p>) (Az Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī; bā ḥavāshī va taʻlīqāt va tawz̤īḥāt-i Jalāl al-Dīn Humāʼī; muqaddamah-ʼi Fārsī va Inglīsī-i Mahdī Muḥaqqiq.)

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana. Mas̲navī. Edited by Isti’lāmī, Muḥammad. Tehran: Kitābfurūshī-i Zavvār, 1990-1995. (Muqaddamah va taḥlīl, taṣḥīḥ-i matn bar asās-i nuskhahʹhā-yi zamān-i Mawlānā va nazdīk bih zamān-i ū, muqāyisah bā chāphā-yi maʻrūf-i Masnavī, tawzīḥāt va taʻlīqāt-i jāmiʻ va fihristʹhā az Muḥammad Istiʻlāmī.)

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana. The Mathnawí of Jalálu’ddín Rúmí: edited from the oldest manuscripts available, with critical notes, translation and commentary. Edited by Nicholson, Reynold Alleyne. London and Leiden: Brill, 1925-1940. (vols. 1-3 contain the Persian text, vols. 4-6 contain the English translation, vols. 7-8 contain the commentary and indices)

Translations

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana. The Mathnawí of Jalálu’ddín Rúmí: edited from the oldest manuscripts available, with critical notes, translation and commentary. Edited by Nicholson, Reynold Alleyne. London and Leiden: Brill, 1925-1940. (vols. 1-3 contain the Persian text, vols. 4-6 contain the English translation, vols. 7-8 contain the commentary and indices)

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana. Mesnevî. Edited by Gölpınarlı, Abdülbâkî. Translated by İzbudak, Veled. Ankara: Maarif Vekaleti, , [n.d.].

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana and Abdülbâkî Gölpınarlı. Mesnevî: tercemesi ve şerhi. Translated by Gölpınarlı, Abdülbâkî. Istanbul: İnkılâp ve Aka, 1981-1984.

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulan. The Masnavi, Book One. Edited by Mojaddedi, Jawid. Translated by Mojaddedi, Jawid. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulan. The Masnavi, Book Two. Edited by Mojaddedi, Jawid. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Studies

Demirel, Şener. "Mevlânâ’nın Mesnevî’si ve Şerhleri." Türkiye Araştırmaları Literatür Dergisi. 5, no. 10 2007: 469-504.

Furūzānfar, Badīʻ al-Zamān. Mas̲navī-yi maʻnavī. Tehran: ʻIlmī, 1342 [1963]. (muqaddimah va sharḥ-i ḥāl az Badīʻ al-Zamān-i Furūzānfar, fihristhā va ḥavāshī az M. Darvīsh)

Gölpınarlı, Abdülbâkî. Mesnevî ve şerhi. Istanbul: Milli Eğitim Basımevi, 1973.

Gölpınarlı, Abdülbâkî. "Türkiye’de Mesnevi Üzerine Yapılan Çalışmalar." Türk-İslam Medeniyeti Akademik Araştırmalar Dergisi [Mevlânâ Özel Sayısı]. 3 2007: 241-251.

Lewis, Franklin. Rumi: past and present, east and west : the life, teaching and poetry of Jalâl al-Din Rumi. Oxford and Boston: Oneworld, 2000.

Catalogue

Rieu, Charles. Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the British Museum. London: The British Museum, 1879-1883, 587.

Work 7: Risālat fī al-futuwwah (Suhrawardī, ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad, 1145-1234)

LOC subject headings

Futuwwa (Islamic social groups)

Sufism

Author

Suhrawardī, ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad, 1145-1234

سهروردي، عمر بن محمد

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Suhrawardī, ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad, 1145-1234 (authorised)

Suhrawardī, Shahāb-uʼd-Dīn ʻUmar bin Muḥammad, 1145-1234 (variant)

Sahrawardī, Shihāb al-Dīn, 1145-1234 (variant)

Suhrawardī, Abū Ḥafṣ ʻUmar, 1145-1234 (variant)

Şêxî Îşraq, 1145-1234 (variant)

سهروردي، عمر بن محمد،, 1145-1234 (variant)

سهروردي، عمر بن محمد (variant)

Title

Risālat fī al-futuwwah

رسالة فی الفتوة

Notes

A treatise interpreting the futuwwah as a part of the taṣawwuf

This work is dated 753 AH [1352-1353 CE]

Main language of text

Persian

Foliation

ff. 50-60

Bibliography

Studies

Ridgeon, Lloyd V. J.. Jawanmardi: a sufi code of honour. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011, 25-98.

Catalogue

Blochet, Edgar. Catalogue des manuscrits persans. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1905-34, 149.

Work 8: Risālat fī al-futuwwah (Suhrawardī, ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad, 1145-1234)

LOC subject headings

Futuwwa (Islamic social groups)

Sufism

Author

Suhrawardī, ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad, 1145-1234

سهروردي، عمر بن محمد

Show other names

Suhrawardī, ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad, 1145-1234 (authorised)

Suhrawardī, Shahāb-uʼd-Dīn ʻUmar bin Muḥammad, 1145-1234 (variant)

Sahrawardī, Shihāb al-Dīn, 1145-1234 (variant)

Suhrawardī, Abū Ḥafṣ ʻUmar, 1145-1234 (variant)

Şêxî Îşraq, 1145-1234 (variant)

سهروردي، عمر بن محمد،, 1145-1234 (variant)

سهروردي، عمر بن محمد (variant)

Title

Risālat fī al-futuwwah

رسالة فی الفتوة

Notes

A fragment of this work on the qualities that a man should have to take part in the futuwwah

This work is dated 753 AH [1352-1353 CE]

Main language of text

Persian

Foliation

ff. 61r-68r

Bibliography

Studies

Ridgeon, Lloyd V. J.. Jawanmardi: a sufi code of honour. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011, 25-98.

Catalogue

Blochet, Edgar. Catalogue des manuscrits persans. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1905-34, 149.

Work 9: A treatise in masnavi form on the futuwwah (Anonymous)

LOC subject headings

Futuwwa (Islamic social groups)

Sufism

Author

Anonymous

Show other names

Anonymous (authorised)

Title

A treatise in masnavi form on the futuwwah

Notes

Main language of text

Persian

Foliation

f. 68v

Bibliography

Catalogue

Blochet, Edgar. Catalogue des manuscrits persans. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1905-34, 149.

Physical Description

Number of folios

76 ff.

Dimensions of folio

width 14cm, height 20cm

History

Place

Anatolia

Date of copy

14th century