Subject: أصوله / Fiqh and the theory of MuslimLaw; العقائد و أصول الدين/ Dogmatic; الادعية و الاوراد / Prayer and ritualpractices; الاخلاق و السلوك / Sufismand ethics.
Date of copy: 1740-50.
Copyist: بُرْهَان الدين مَمَّ الغُمُقِي.
Place of copy: Daghestan.
Notes: a book from the collection of HasanGuzunov, handed over to him as an inheritance from his maternal grandfatherSungur-qadi. Various notes on the theory of Islamic law, on hadiths, prayers(du‘a), Sufism; an essay in support of the taqlid, about the prophet Khidr,whether he is alive or not. The manuscript contains a letter from theDaghestani Nakshbandi and Shadhili shaykh Hasan Hilmi al-Qahi (حسن حلمي القحي)to Ali Kayaev (3 pages). In a letter, shaykh Hasan writes to Ali Kayaev that anumber of his students criticize Sufi shaykhs for the practice of a Sufi'sspiritual connection with his shaykh (rabita) and claim that this is contraryto Shari‘a. Hasan Hilmi argues for the permissibility of the practice ofrabita, writes that famous reformist Muhammad Rashid Rida was a wahhabi, andwarns Ali Kayaev against following the views of the wahhabis.
Size: 20.5 х 15.
