Description: Sufism.
This manuscript is specifically about the Naqshbandiyya, who originated in Central Asia. The third folio lists the names of the principal Naqshbandi shaykhs of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Central Asian migrants from present-day Afghanistan and Uzbekistan established a Naqshbandi hostel in the Old City of Jerusalem in the seventeenth century. It is still there, as are descendants of those migrants, and has its own library of manuscripts.
Volume and issue number: part I, 104/5/148.
Extent and format of original material: 52 pages.
Physical characteristics of original: MS suffering from insect damage.
Author: Ahmad al-Kawsaj.
Calligraphic script.
