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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Written Monuments of the Orient</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Written Monuments of the Orient</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Written Monuments of the Orient</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2410-0145</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">“Nauka” Publishers: “Vostochnaya Literatura” (Oriental Literature) Publisher</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">641605</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.55512/wmo641605</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Статьи</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en"><italic>Asrār-nāma</italic>: a Sufi Manuscript Treatise from the Collection of Muhammad ʻAyyād al-Ṭantāwī at the M. Gorky Scientific Library of SPbU</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0009-0002-1407-7757</contrib-id><name><surname>Slesarev</surname><given-names>Timur</given-names></name><address><country country="RU">Russian Federation</country></address><bio><p>Master of Arts in Asian and African Studies, Chief Librarian</p></bio><email>timurslesarev@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff1"><institution>M. Gorky Scientific Library, St. Petersburg State University</institution></aff><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2025-08-18" publication-format="electronic"><day>18</day><month>08</month><year>2025</year></pub-date><volume>11</volume><issue>1</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en"/><fpage>95</fpage><lpage>108</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2024-11-05"><day>05</day><month>11</month><year>2024</year></date><date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="2025-06-04"><day>04</day><month>06</month><year>2025</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2025, Slesarev T.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2025</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Slesarev T.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.eco-vector.com/2410-0145/article/view/641605">https://journals.eco-vector.com/2410-0145/article/view/641605</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The paper deals with the brief Ottoman Sufi treatise <italic>Asrār-nāma</italic> included in the 18th c. handwritten <italic>madjmūʻa</italic> (collection of works) kept at the Scientific Library of SPbU (call number Ms.O. 701). The traditional attribution of the work to the Naqshbandī <italic>shaykh</italic> ʻAbd Allāh Ilāhī (d. 1491) looks highly doubtful. The author of the treatise was under profound influence of Ibn al-ʻArabī’s “Unity of Being” (<italic>wa</italic><italic>ḥ</italic><italic>dat al-wudj</italic><italic>ūd</italic>) doctrine, of which the work is a simplified presentation. Some details of the Sufi Path described in the treatise indicate that its author was also familiar with the teaching of the Khalwatiyya brotherhood. The article gives a general description of the manuscript, an outline of the contents of <italic>Asrār-nāma</italic>, as well as brief characteristics of the first three texts gathered in the <italic>madjmuʻa</italic>.</p></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Ottoman manuscripts</kwd><kwd>Ottoman translated literature</kwd><kwd>Sufism</kwd><kwd>Khalwatiyya brotherhood</kwd><kwd>Oneness of Being doctrine</kwd><kwd>al-Ṭantāwī collection</kwd><kwd>M. 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