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

the birth of ‘Abd al-Qadir al-Jïlanï (470/1077-8), to the death of el-Hacc ‘All el- Uulüsï (1197/1782-3) (p. 151); two lists of tarikat founders with the years of their death (12 numbered items), and with additional data, including an extended death notice, in Arabic, of Kemal Pa§azade, dated 2 §ewal 940 (16 April 1534) (p. 152); an Arabic text on shaykh Sa‘d ad-DIn al-JibawI (p. 153); a tradition, in Arabic, attributed to shaykh Ibrahim ad-Dasüqï (p. 156); and a list of the shaykhs of the zaviye of the Grand Vizier Koca Mustafa Pa§a, with the years of their death, up to the son of Mehmed Ha§im Efendi (d. 1200/1785-6), 15 numbered entries, with additional items (p. 159). There are also texts, often fragmentary, in Arabic and Turkish of a more general religious nature, mostly prayers and prayer prescriptions for magical purposes. They are found on: pp. 4 (Arabic prayer, 8 lines); pp. 5-6 (a Turkish text, including a gazel and partly in the form of interlinear glosses, on the interpretation of various pious (Arabic) formulae and prayers); pp. 7-8 (a prayer attributed to Muhammad in the form of a Turkish mesnevi whose lines are alternated with Arabic prose sentences in red); pp. 25-36 (various Arabic text fragments); p. 35 (a pedigree of the Prophet, from Adam onwards, with 49 numbered entries and additional Turkish comments); p. 36 (Arabic fragments in prose and verse); pp. 39-43 (Arabic texts on prayers); pp. 44-6 (prayer prescriptions in Arabic and Turkish, attributed to various saints like Ibn al-‘Arab! and shaykh Vefa); p. 46 (a reading, awrad, attributed to Jalal ad-DIn Rumi); p. 69 (text fragments on the prophet ‘ïsa, followed by a note on four Evangelists); p. 70 (a ‘quotation’ from the Gospels (Inal), with interlinear Turkish glosses, and a colophon of Ahmed Ra§id, dated 22 Zil-ka'de 1214 (17 April 1800, see plate); pp. 78-9 (two lists prescribing votive offerings for various saints, and a prayer prescription); p. 80 (a story on the repentance of shaykh Sa‘d ad-DIn, followed by a reading (awrad) attributed to shaykh ‘Abd al-Qadir al-Gïlanï); p. 82 (another Arabic prescription for a reading); p. 84 (an ‘igOret concerning the canonical ablution of white and red body fluids); p. 87 (a prayer prescription attributed to Ibn al-‘Arabï); p. 88 (a prayer prescription, for ‘conquering hearts’, attributed to shaykh Murad); pp. 99-101 (a brief treatise on the ‘giddet’ of the Prophet, with colophon of Ahmed Ra§id, dated 1191/1777); p. 102 (a digression on the formula ‘la lah ilia Allah’, followed by numerical calculations); p. 110 (an Arabic prayer); p. Ill (a prescription for the recitation of the beautiful names of God, with a numbered inventory, followed by two prayer prescriptions for amorous purposes); p. 112 (a series of six brief prayer prescriptions); p. 116 (a prayer prescription, 7 lines); p. 124 (a series of notes in Arabic and Turkish on shaykhs and prayers); p. 135 (various prayer prescriptions, partly rhymed and attributed to Mitrovicali