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Country

France

City

Paris

Institution

Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Collection

Manuscrits Persans

Shelfmark

Supplément Persan 1086

Contents

Kashf al-maḥjūb (Hujvīrī, ʻAlī ibn ʻUs̲mān, -approximately 1072 )

Author

Hujvīrī, ʻAlī ibn ʻUs̲mān, -approximately 1072

هجويري، علي بن عثمان

Show other names

Hujvīrī, ʻAlī ibn ʻUs̲mān, -approximately 1072 (authorised)

al-Djullābi, ʻAlī ibn ʻUthmān, -approximately 1072 (variant)

al-Ghaznawī, ʻAlī ibn ʻUthmān, -approximately 1072 (variant)

al-Hujwīrī, ʻAlī ibn ʻUsmān, -approximately 1072 (variant)

al-Jullábí, ʻAlí ibn ʻUthmán, -approximately 1072 (variant)

ʻAlī ibn ʻUsmān, al-Jullābī al-Hujwīrī, -approximately 1072 (variant)

ʻAlī ibn ʻUs̲mān ibn ʻAlī al-Jullābī G̲h̲aznavī, -approximately 1072 (variant)

ʻAlī ibn ʻUthmān al-Jullábí, -approximately 1072 (variant)

Dātā Ganj Bakhsh, -approximately 1072 (variant)

Ganj Bakhsh, -approximately 1072 (variant)

Ganjbakhsh, -approximately 1072 (variant)

G̲h̲aznavī, ʻAlī ibn ʻUs̲mān ibn ʻAlī al-Jullābī, -approximately 1072 (variant)

Hajverī, Haz̤rat ʻAlī Mak̲h̲dūm, -approximately 1072 (variant)

Haz̤rat ʻAlī Mak̲h̲dūm Hajverī, -approximately 1072 (variant)

Hudjwīrī, Abuʹl-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn ʻUthmān, -approximately 1072 (variant)

Hujvīrī, ʻAlī ibn ʻUs̲mān, d. ca. 1072 (variant)

Murshid-i Lāhaur (variant)

هجويري، علي بن عثمان (variant)

هجويري، علي بن عثمان،, -approximately 1072 (variant)

هجويرى، على ابن عثمان (variant)

Title

Kashf al-maḥjūb

کشف المحجوب

Notes

A treatise about the history of Sufis and other doctrines

This work was composed in the second half of the 5th century [1058-1105 CE] and is very important for the study of ancient Sufism

Main language of text

Persian

Bibliography

Editions

al-Ṭabari, and M Faruk Gürtunca. Tarih-i Taberi. İstanbul: Saǧlam Yayınevi, [n.d.].

Translations

Hujvīrī, ʻAlī ibn ʻUs̲mān. Kashf al-maḥjūb of al-Hujwīrī: the revelation of the veiled: an early Persian treatise on Sufism. Translated by Nicholson, Reynold Alleyne. Wiltshire: Aris & Phillips, 2000.

Hujvīrī, ʻAlī ibn ʻUs̲mān. Kashf al-maḥjūb lil-Hujwīrī. Edited by al-Hādī Qandīl, Isʻād ʻAbd and Amīn ʻAbd al-Majīd Badawī. Bayrūt: Dār al-Nahḍah al-ʻArabīyah, 1980.

Hujvīrī, ʻAlī ibn ʻUs̲mān. Kashf al-maḥjūb. Edited by Zhukovskīĭ, V A and Qāsim Anṣārī. Tehran: Kitābkhānah-ʼi Ṭahūrī, 1979.

Catalogue

Blochet, Edgar. Catalogue des manuscrits persans. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1905-34, 401.

Physical Description

Number of folios

243 ff.

Dimensions of folio

width 14cm, height 23cm

History

Place

Anatolia

Date of copy

15th century

The ex-libris contains annotations with the names of owners of possible Turkish origin. See for example Müstakimzade Süleyman Sadeddin, 1718-1787 (Date 1165 AH [1751-1752 CE]), Sadeddin Soleiman (Date 1131 AH [1718-1719 CE]), and Ibrāhīm Ṭāhir , (Date 1067 AH [1656-1657 CE])