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Ⓛ Sheikh AL-Mu'ta bin Salih al-Sharqi (d. 1766/7), Dhakira a…
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Ⓛ Sheikh AL-Mu'ta bin Salih al-Sharqi (d. 1766/7), Dhakira a…
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Estimate €3,000 - €4,000
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Description
Ⓛ Sheikh AL-Mu'ta bin Salih al-Sharqi (d. 1766/7), Dhakira al-Muhtaj
Morocco, dated 27 Dhu al-Hijja 1315 (19 May 1898 AD).
Arabic manuscript on watermarked paper - watermarked F. Barjon in Moirans (Isère) - consisting of 98 leaves written in Maghribi script in sepia ink, with twenty-three lines per page; polychrome decoration enhances certain words and headings, illustrated with a diagram showing the position of the men of the invisible (rijal al-ghayb) and the holy souls (al-arwah al-muqadassa), taken from a Sufi text.
Original flap binding in tobacco-coloured morocco.
Condition: the 1st leaf may be a later addition.
Size: 34.2 x 22 cm (13.46 x 8.66 in.)
Provenance: Rosebery's
Rosebery's sale, London, 26 April 2024, lot 178.
This text is devoted to the life of the Prophet Muhammad and the prophetic eulogy, probably intended for liturgical use by members of the Isâwiyya brotherhood, whose founder Muhammad ibn 'Isâ - closely associated with the city of Meknes - is mentioned in the opening medallion under his epithet al-Sheikh al-Kâmil. The watermarked paper manufactured in France - evidence that European paper was imported into North African copy shops at the end of the 19th century - is a precious material dating clue, confirming the date of the colophon.
Shaykh al- Mu'ta ibn Salih al-Sharqi (d. 1766/7), Dhakhirat al-Muhtaj, a devotional Arabic manuscript on the life of the Prophet, Morocco, dated 27 Dhu al-Hijja 1315 AH / 19 May 1898.
Arabic manuscript on European watermarked paper bearing the mark of F. Barjon, Moirans (Isère), including a diagram derived from a Sufi text. The manuscript was probably intended for the liturgical use of the Isawiyya Sufi order whose founder Muhammad ibn 'Isa, closely associated with Meknes, is mentioned in the illuminated opening medallion under the epithet al-Shaykh al-Kamil.
Location:
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