A SUFI LINEAGE SCROLL
Lot 257

A SUFI LINEAGE SCROLL

OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED 9 MUHARRAM AH 1265/5 DECEMBER 1848 AD

Closed25 October 2018

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A SUFI LINEAGE SCROLL
OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED 9 MUHARRAM AH 1265/5 DECEMBER 1848 AD
Turkish and Arabic manuscript on fine paper, with a finely illuminated headpiece in gold and polychrome arranged around the names of Allah and the Prophet Muhammad, comprising 47 roundels in total, divided by gold palmettes, a long silver and gold garland to either side, the colophon dated, the top with original brown morocco cover with two-colour gold decoration.
184 x 6 ¾in. (467 x17.1cm.)

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The scroll starts with the names of Allah, Jibril, the Prophet Muhammad and 'Ali. It then names 45 important Sufi personalities from the Suhrawardi, Khalwati, Sunbuli and Markazi orders such as Shaykh Hasan al-Basri, Shaykh Habib al-'Ajmi, Shaykh Khawaja Da'ud al-Ta'i, down to Abu al-Najib al-Suhrawardi, Qutb al-Din al-Abhari, Jamal al-Din al-Busiri, Pir 'Umar al-Khalwati, Shaykh Muhammad Jamal al-Din Aqsarai, Shaykh Ya'qub Efendi Kirmiyani, Shaykh Sinan Efendi, Shaykh Nurullah Efendi, Shaykh Muhammad Hamdi, Sunbul Sinan, and ending with Shaykh Sayyid Muhammad Nur al-Din bin al-Shaykh Ahmad known as Markaz Efendi.