Collection of prayers in the form of litanies (awrād), attributed
to a Šayḫ Wafāʾ. The manuscript must have been completed
before 1746, because in this year it was consigned to a religious
foundation by Bašīr Āġā, a dignitary of the Ottoman court. The
author cannot be conclusively ascertained since there are several
people known by the name Šayḫ Wafāʾ. This manuscript probably
belongs in the context of Islamic mysticism (Sufism), which was
firmly established as an institution in the Ottoman-Turkish society
of the period. The manuscript comes from the collection of the
Islamic scholar and turkologist Rudolf Tschudi (1884-1960).
Rights
e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
