A MANUSCRIPT WRITTEN BY HAFIZ IBRAHIM B. MUHAMMED ŠEHOVIĆ

“DALĀILU’L-HAYRĀT WA SHAWĀRIQU’L-ANWĀR FĪ DIKR AL-ṢALĀT ʻALĀ AL-NABIYYI’L-MUHTĀR”

Abstract

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Manuscripts written in oriental languages are present in our region since the very arrival of Islam and represent the cultural heritage that is essential for any kind of research that deals with the history of Muslims in B&H. The topic of this article is twofold. In one hand we attempted to present an Arabic manuscript of hafiz Ibrahim Šehović, our renowned calligraphist from the XVIII century as a representative sample of Bosnian Muslim heritage. Hafiz Ibrahim Šehović was a long-term imam of the Emperor-s Mosque (Careva Džamija) and his transcriptions of the Mus’haf were well known as “The Emperor’s Mus’hafs”. On the other hand, we present a work of a Moroccan from XV century, “Dalāilu’l-hayrāt” as an example of a general Muslim traditional spirituality. This collection of Salawat upon Muhammad s.w.s. is an outstanding manifestation of the love for the Messenger brought about by the Muslim civilization. The fact that Gazi Khusrev-bey’s Library holds no less than 43 manuscripts of “Dalail” (and even greater number of other various collection of salawatand du’as) indicates that piety in form of reciting such works was very popular amongst our people. Šehović’s manuscript of this work is amongst most skilful and most valuable manuscript of Gazi Khusrev-bey’s Library