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Work TitleMecmū‘a
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ManuscriptsOnly copy is in the personal collection of prof. dr. İsmail Erünsal. library: ….; MS. number: …; no. of folios: …
EditionsEsen, Abdullah. An Ottoman Miscellany Compiled in the Eighteenth Century (Textual Analysis, Trnascription and Comparative Text). MA thesis, Istanbul: Boğaziçi University (2019).
Date1700-1800
Content SummaryIt contains an Arabic prayer for the cure of the plague and its application in 6a; numerical information on the reasons for the revelation of the verses in the Qur'an and a note on the different meanings of the word “Ayn” in 28a; three short texts on the characteristics of the pious zahid, the pir of the tariqa, and the kamil sheikh in 67b; and examples of words with the same letter values using ebced calculation in 69a; In 75a, a quotation from a work on astrology called “ʿIlm al-Nārencāt” and an example of a type of ebced calculation called “cümel-i sagir” in order to influence someone; in 6a, prayers and a ritual to influence someone under the title “Tesḫīr-i ʿAẓīm”; and in 87a, prayers and a ritual to fulfill a wish narrated from Naqshbandi sheikhs.
BibliographyEsen, Abdullah. An Ottoman Miscellany Compiled in the Eighteenth Century (Textual Analysis, Trnascription and Comparative Text). MA thesis, Istanbul: Boğaziçi University (2019). viii-categories [astrology; divination; literature; Sufism; magic; natural sciences;]
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