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ACQUISITIONS OF 2000-2 (Or. 25.762, cont.)

text fragments, in Arabic and Turkish, on the stages of the soul and related subjects (pp. 9-24); an Arabic text,with Arabic and Turkish marginal additions, on mysticism and aspects of dervish rituals (pp. 27-31); a marginal note on the succession (in 1164/1750-1) and death (in 1206/1791-2) of Shaykh Mehmed b. Ahmed (p. 50); an authorized prayer text for the Sa‘dïya-§eybanïye order (ijaza, ibidem)-, an authorized - the term ijaza occurs in the last line - treatise, in Arabic, on the pedigree of the Sa‘dïye order of dervishes, including es-Seyyid Ahmed Ra§id es-Sa‘df (pp. 51-7); an authorization, in Arabic, issued by the shaykh, el- Hacc ‘Alï el-öulüsï Etyemezzade, concerning the succession of Ahmed Ra§id, dated 23 CemagTl-ewel 1197 (26 April 1783), followed by a statement related to this matter by Ahmed Ra§id himself (p. 58); a treatise on the Nak§bendlye order by Mehmed ‘Arabzade, entitled (in a heading preceding the text) Mïzanü t-tarik (pp. 73-7); it begins (p. 73, after a besmele); JjJL*. g . All jjj I •>< f yt AJÜ j ... i_j j <uU A.OJ-J) ajLijJf j a j j II ia>a ^ - ■* N (jal ^ i AII ... ij-' ^ **" ' 1 * ■“"*» I aj Aj \ ■*‘»* > I jLo/ jJ»

Ends (p. 77): Cj jiA*v >-*1 m'i>A j X>i.ni-« dt»Ls» AjLS i^JULa j aJjI (jiujjJ >-*15_< < j j ... 4J5I ijJLaü j ajL>u-u> Also: a model authorization (‘ijazat al-awrad as-Sa'dïya’) in Arabic, signed by Ahmed Ra§id (p. 79); a pedigree of the Ahmediye order, quoted from a work entitled ‘en-Nasihat el-'alevfye flt-tarikat el-Ahmedvye’ (p. 83); a model text in Arabic on the succession of a shaykh of the Sa'dlye order, with an extensive disgression on the pedigree of the order (pp. 89-95 - one fulan was replaced by Ahmed Findikzade, p. 92); model ijdzas in Arabic, issued by Ahmed Ra§id (p. 96, 98), followed by an authorization, also in Arabic, for his own succession, issued to shaykh Mehmed Sa‘duddfn es-Sa‘df by him, dated 15 Muharrem 1202 (27 October 1787) (p. 98); an Arabic ij&za for the succession as Rifa'Iye shaykh issued to Ahmed Ra§id, with two seals (p. 103); a treatise in Arabic on the pedigree of the Rifa'Iye order of dervishes, including es-Seyyid Ahmed Ra§id es- Sa‘dï er-Rifa'I, sealed and dated 4 Muharrem 1194 (11 January 1780) (pp. 103- 10); a pedigree going back to the Prophet, including the Twelve Imams and shaykh Junayd Baghdadi (p. 123); varous texts concerning the tarikat-i Es'ad, including a detailed pedigree (pp. 125-30); a series of questions regarding dervish rituals, including dance and sema' (p. 132, 5 items); a pedigree (in Arabic) of shaykh Sa‘d ad-DIn el-JibawI [founder of the Sa‘dlye order] (p. 141); an authorization (ijaza, in Arabic) for the Sa'dïye order, with a detailed pedigree (pp. 145-9); a list of births and deaths of shaykhs, headed ‘tdnh-i evliya Allah’, from