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Dala'il al Khayrat a lithograph printed book originally copied by Khalil al Shukri and lavishly illustrated by contemporary hands, with a hand made miniatures of Mecca and Medina.

Dala'il al Khayrat a lithograph printed book originally copied by Khalil al Shukri and lavishly illustrated by contemporary hands, with a hand made miniatures of Mecca and Medina.

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Dala'il al Khayrat a lithograph printed book originally copied by Khalil al Shukri and lavishly illustrated by contemporary hands, with a hand made miniatures of Mecca and Medina.

by Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Sulayman ibn Abu Bakr al-Jazuli al-Simlali (d. 1465 AD.)

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Extra ordinary lithograph of Dalail al Khairat originally copied by the well-known scribe Halil Shukri (Sukru) the student of Suleyman Vehbi. In a Rococo Ottoman Style binding of the period of the Sultan Abdul Mejid. Printed in the Imperial press, Istanbul 1262 H. and completely illustrated by hand with a hand made miniature of Mecca and Medina. Halil Sukru came from Bursa where he learned from the well-known scribe Suleyman Vehbi (wrote the miniature Hiliye no. 000043 in our inventory) . He was a Nakshibandi Hafiz , wrote a Qur'an in 1252 and appointed as a calligraphy teacher in Mekteb-i Maarif in İstanbul where he dead after 1268 H (1851) .

often known as Imam al-Jazuli or Sheikh Jazuli, was a Moroccan Sufi leader of the Berber tribe of the Jazulah. He is best known for compiling the Dala'il al-Khayrat, an extremely popular Muslim prayer book. This book is usually divided into 7 sections for each day of the week.[1] Al-Jazuli is one of the seven saints of Marrakesh.

Al-Jazuli lived in the historic Sous area of Morocco, situated between the Atlantic Ocean and the Atlas Mountains. He studied locally and then went to the Madrasat As-Saffarîn in Fez where his room is still pointed out to visitors today. In Fez he memorized works of usul al-fiqh and Maliki law, such as Ibn al-Hajib's Mukhtasr al-Far'i and Sahnun's Al-Mudawwana al-Kubra. He also met the famous jurist and mystic Ahmad Zarruq. After settling a tribal feud he left the area and spent the next forty years in Makkah, Medina and Jerusalem. After his long journey, he returned to Fez where he completed the prayer book Dala'il al-Khayrat.

He was initiated into the Shadhili Tariqa, a Sufi order, by a descendant of Abu Abdallah Mohammed Amghar, the sheikh of the Banu Amghar. He spent fourteen years in Khalwa (seclusion) and then went to Safi where he gathered around him many followers. The governor of Safi felt obliged to expel him and later poisoned him which led to his death in 1465. He is said to have died during prayer. His tomb in Afoughal became the center of the Saadi dynasty Saadian resistance against the Portuguese. His deep respect for al-Jazouli was the reason that Abu Abdallah al-Qaim chose Afoughal as his residence.

It is claimed that in 1541, seventy-seven years after his death, his body was exhumed to be transferred to Marrakesh and found to be uncorrupted. In the northern part of the Medina of Marrakesh the Saadi sultan Ahmad al-Araj (1517–1544) had a mausoleum built for al-Jazouli. The mausoleum was enlarged and partly rebuilt during the reign of the sultans Moulay Ismael and Mohammed Ben Abdallah.


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Title
Dala'il al Khayrat a lithograph printed book originally copied by Khalil al Shukri and lavishly illustrated by contemporary hands, with a hand made miniatures of Mecca and Medina.
Author
Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Sulayman ibn Abu Bakr al-Jazuli al-Simlali (d. 1465 AD.)
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Contemporary hard cover
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Date Published
1262
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Keywords
dala'il,khayrat,manuscript,illustrated,islamic,islam,jazouli,sulayman,halil,shukru,shukri,sultaniyye,amira,istanbul,lithograph,1262,sultan,abdul hamid,abdulhamid,han,second,art
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