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In my edition of the Mawāqif and Mukhāṭabāt of Muḥammad ibn 'Abd al-Jabbār al-Niffarī (Gibb Memorial Series, 1935) I called attention in several places to statements made by the commentator 'Afīf al-Dīn al-Tilimsānī, and the copyist of the fine Gotha manuscript, that the writings of al-Niffarī as we then possessed them were compiled from the author's scattered notes by his son or grandson, the notes themselves, which were dated, being no longer extant. Among the dates mentioned for these original autograph portions were the years 352, 353, 358, 359, 360, and 361 of the Hijra. I was prepared to accept these statements at their face value, and to use them as confirming the authenticity of the works ascribed to al-Niffarī, and his approximate date as given by the biographers. But it certainly never entered my thoughts that I would one day be handling a part of his writings in his own hand.
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- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , February 1953 , pp. 29 - 42
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page 29 note 1 See my edition, pp. 1, 25, 221, 227, 234, 235, 240, 242, 244, 249, 250. Since writing this article I have received from Dr. Ahmed Ateş his most interesting ‘Konya kütüphanelerinde bulanan bazi mühim yazmalar’ (Belleten, Cilt xvi, Sayi 61, pp. 49–130Google Scholar), in which details are given (pp. 74–8) of important Nifiarī MSS. in Konya.
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page 30 note 3 Ibid., Suppl. ii, pp. 565–6.
page 31 note 1 Brockelmann, , Suppl. i, p. 353.Google Scholar
page 31 note 2 See his Kitāb al-Luma' (ed. Nicholson, B. A.), pp. 381–4.Google Scholar
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page 31 note 4 See Kitāb al-Luma', loc. cit.
page 31 note 5 Abū Yazīd reports a dialogue between himself and God; we find a like situation in Mauqif 67: 65, 68, 81Google Scholar, and Mauqif 76: 2, 3.Google Scholar
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page 32 note 1 Hyderabad edition (1367/1948), p. 2.
page 32 note 2 See al-Muḥibbī, , Khulāṣat al-athar, ii, pp. 464–7Google Scholar. His son 'Abd Allāh (d. 1096/1685) was a considerable poet, see Brockelmann, , ii, pp. 277–8Google Scholar; Suppl. ii, pp. 386–7.
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