A celebrated prayerbook
Al-Sahifa al-Kamilah al-Sajjadiyya.
4to (188 x 247 mm). Arabic manuscript on polished oriental paper, set within margins of sturdier stock. 148 ff. 11 lines to the page, the first, middle and last written in gold with some blue muhaqqaq script, the intercalated two blocks of eight lines each in black naskh script, all set within blue, red, green, and gilt borders. Contemporary full leather, lacking fore-edge flap, both covers prettily stamped in relief showing red floral and bud designs on gilt background on the outsides with gilt borders and richly ornamental lether insets in gilt and colours on the insides.
€ 35,000.00
A beautiful copy of "Al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya", a popular and celebrated prayerbook containing 54 supplications and whispered du'as, including seven prayers to be recited according to the days of the week. Composed by Ali ibn Husayn (659-713 CE), known as Zayn al-Abidin (The Adornment of Worshippers) and Imam al-Sajjad (The Prostrating Imam), the great-grandson of the Prophet and the grandson of Ali ibn Abi Talib, the fourth caliph of Islam.
Margins browned, some waterstaining; inset written area nearly spotless. Binding professionally restored, still a very prettily bound example with the elaborately decorated inside covers finely preserved.
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