The Kashf al-mahjúb: The oldest Persian treatise on SúfiismHujviri, ‘Ali ibn ‘Usman
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The Kashf al-mahjúb: The oldest Persian treatise on Súfiism
Hujviri, ‘Ali ibn ‘Usman
Sufism -- Early works to 1800
_An abridged translation of the_ Iḥyá´u´l-Mulúk, _a Persian History of
Sístán by Sháh Ḥusayn, from the British Museum MS. (Or. 2779), by A.
G. Ellis._
_The geographical part of the_ Nuzhatu´l-Qulúb _of Ḥamdu´lláh Mustawfí
of Qazwín, with a translation, by G. Le Strange._
_The_ Futúḥu Miṣr wa´l-Maghrib wa´l-Andalus _of Abu´l-Qásim
`Abdu´r-Raḥmán b. `Abdu´lláh b. Abdu´l-Ḥakam al-Qurashí al-Miṣrí (d.
A.H. 257), edited by Professor C. C. Torrey._
_The_ Qábús-náma, _edited in the original Persian by E. Edwards._
Ta´ríkhu Miṣr, _the History of Egypt, by Abú `Umar Muḥammad b. Yúsuf
al-Kindí (d. A.H. 350), edited from the unique MS. in the British
Museum (Add. 23,324) by A. Rhuvon Guest. (In the Press.)_
_The_ Ansáb _of as-Sam`ání, reproduced in facsimile from the British
Museum MS. (Or. 23,355), with Indices by H. Loewe. (In the Press.)_
_The poems of four early Arabic poets. In two parts:—(1) The_ Díwáns _of
`Ámir b. aṭ-Ṭufayl and `Abíd b. al-Abraṣ, edited by Sir Charles J.
Lyall, K.C.S.I.; (2) The_ Díwáns _of aṭ-Ṭufayl b. `Awf and Ṭirimmáḥ
b. Ḥakím, edited by F. Krenkow._
_The_ Kitábu´l-Raddi `alá ahli ´l-bida`i wal-ahwá´i _of Makḥúl b.
al-Mufaḍḍal al-Nasafí (d. A.H. 318), edited from the Bodleian MS.
Pocock 271, with introductory Essay on the Sects of Islam, by G. W.
Thatcher, M.A._
_A_ monograph on the Southern Dialects of Kurdish, _by E. B. Soane._
_This Volume is one
of a Series
published by the Trustees of the
“E. J. W. GIBB MEMORIAL”._
_The Funds of this Memorial are derived from the interest accruing from
a sum of money given by the late MRS. GIBB of Glasgow, to perpetuate the
Memory of her beloved son_
_ELIAS JOHN WILKINSON GIBB,_
_and to promote those researches into the History, Literature,
Philosophy, and Religion of the Turks, Persians, and Arabs to which,
from his youth upwards, until his premature and deeply lamented death in
his 45th year on December 5, 1901, his life was devoted._
تِلْكَ آثَارُنَا تَدُلُّ عَلَيْنَا * فَٱنْظُرُوا بَعْدَنَا الي ٱلاَثَارِ
“_The worker pays his debt to Death;
His work lives on, nay, quickeneth._”
_The following memorial verse is contributed by `Abdu´l-Ḥaqq Ḥámid Bey
of the Imperial Ottoman Embassy in London, one of the Founders of the
New School of Turkish Literature, and for many years an intimate friend
of the deceased._
جمله يارانى وفاسيله ايدركن نطييب
کندی عمرنده وفاگورمدی اول ذاتِ اديب
گنج ايکن اولمش ايدی اوجِ کماله واصل
نه اولوردی ياشامش اولسه ايدی مستر گيب
“_E. J. W. GIBB MEMORIAL._”
_ORIGINAL TRUSTEES._
[_JANE GIBB, died November 26, 1904_],
_E. G. BROWNE_,
_G. LE STRANGE_,
_H. F. AMEDROZ_,
_A. G. ELLIS_,
_R. A. NICHOLSON_,
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