Manuscripts of Enʿām-i Şerīf in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Kinga Dévényi (Budapest)
Abstract
Several recent publications highlighted the importance of Enʿām-i şerīf, a special genre of Ottoman devotional literature, and treated the choice of its texts and imagery. The present article wishes to describe the copies preserved in the Oriental Collection of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and to compare their contents with those of other prayer books there and the Ottoman scroll Alexander Fodor had intended to edit.
Keywords
Enʿām-i şerīf, Haftiyak-i šarīf, Muslim prayer books, Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Ottoman devotional literature, Islamic manuscripts, Ottoman amulet scroll