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(1) pp. 1-62 Terceme-i Emr el-muhkem el-merbut ft ma yelzem li-ehl tarik Allah min e§- §ürüt Jaj j *■ II till) Jjj jJa JjfeV ^jJL La-^fl Ja$-i «II A copy of a translation on the duties of softs by the ‘Shaykh al-Akbar’ (Ibn al- ‘Arabï, d. 638/1240), cf. GAL I, p. 444, No. 38/40, S I, p. 796 (No. 40). The translation was made by the shaykh and poet, Yemezzade Süleyman Rü§dï of Karacasu near Nazilli (d. 1272/1855, cf. Inal III, pp. 1512-3), who had been authorized (me’gun) by shaykh Ztihdl en-Nazillivf. The title of the original work, the author, and the translator are mentioned in an extensive heading preceding the text on p. 1. The translation proper is preceded by an introduction in which the translator explains that he began his work in §ewal 1219 (January 1805) in order to make the instructive text known to local softs who did not know Arabic. He was assisted by Shaykh Ahmed ‘A§kï Efendi (mentioned in p. 2:2), who in fact was better in Arabic but had not mastered the art of translation. The work is followed by poems of the translator: a mesnevf (pp. 62-67) and a gazel (p. 67, see plate), the last hemistich of which is a chronogram resulting in the year 1220 (1805-6). The text does not seem to be documented. A few marginal additions. Begins (p. 1, after a besmele): j j * t-fc j jl j jj I >*|j | AJLJ Lol ... j lirf> 3 Ag^jJI «II 11) i—tj tUJ Aa^Jt tLS ioj iJJjjjjJI Oj-uj till I aJI u >.« aAAJj*ai a La a V. I a A '. .» ... a_a jjJjl 14 *H U* yy. jl'ai jJm * A H ■ '■ J t a ... a a L a ... I aX a II J_a! I« ~ * Ends (p. 62): aJL I i tj t a- . I jl a I j aaj > * h 11; j. a Ai Lia ^ t ■ * AaS a Lui I aN i ii I) j A all aL-uil yA‘JL.8 . * 1A... II j *1 a mil Colophon (p. 67, see plate): ^ >>-T £ j >a~i> a jjjla I r a-A ... jij I ,7i c u^tt «!->■ .in jjjaJ ij Sj V A A lUjUJaAI ^jLaAAJ \ Y' A A\ ... A \ C I a A > _ hr ^ol (2) pp. 68-78 Risale-i Mehmed ‘Amikt u * _■ * <- aa^-o j A copy of a polemical treatise by Mehmed ‘AmikI in which he relates how he reclaimed a man and son of a sipaht, who had been friends with Hamzevf