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Professor Louis Massignon, the value of whose contributions to the study of Sufism cannot be overestimated, gives a short but penetrating account of the doctrines of Junayd in his Essai sur les Origines du Lexique Technique de la Mystique Musulmane. This account is preceded by an analysis of the contents of the manuscript of Junayd's opuscula which is preserved at Istanbul. In his Recueil de Textes Inédits Massignon gives extracts of this manuscript. It has recently been my good fortune, through the generosity of the Egyptian University, to obtain a photograph of this manuscript—and I must not omit to acknowledge the kindly services of Dr. Ritter in this connection—as a preliminary to the fulfilment of what has been for some time my immediate intention, namely, to write a monograph on the life and doctrines of Junayd, and to edit all his surviving reliquiae.
page 499 note 1 pp. 273–9.
page 499 note 2 MS. Shahíd 'Alí 1374.
page 499 note 3 p. 49 f.
page 499 note 4 D. a.h. 304. For an account of his life, vid. Qushayrí, , Risálah (Cairo, 1330), 22Google Scholar; Sha'rání, , Al-Ṭabaqát al-Kubrá (Cairo, 1343), i, 77Google Scholar; Abu'l-Falláḥ al-Ḥanbali, Shadharát al-Dhahab, ii, 254; Al-Khaṭíb, , Ta'ríkh Baghdád, xiv, 314–19Google Scholar. The exordium of this letter is quoted by al-Sarráj, Abú Naṣr, Kitáb al-Luma' (ed. , Nicholson), 242–3Google Scholar, where the text exhibits slight variations, as noted later.
page 500 note 1 “thee and us” K.L.
page 500 note 2 “paths” K.L., the variant “path” being given.
page 500 note 3 “elevate thee” K.L.
page 500 note 4 -4 Omitted in K.L.
page 500 note 5 “in the continuance of the perpetuity of His eternity” K.L.
page 500 note 6 “that thou mayest be single through Him” K.L.
page 500 note 7 “nor what is thine” K.L.
page 500 note 8 Here the quotation in K.L. ends.
page 500 note 9 Lit. breaths.
page 501 note 1 Lit. mad and sick with pleurisy.
page 501 note 2 As was Moses, , Qur'án, xx, 43Google Scholar.
page 501 note 3 Sc. by making their acts accord with the Divine Law.
page 502 note 1 The “certamty without doubt” is the existence which is in God; the “doubt without certainty” is the existence in separate life.
page 502 note 2 So. the messenger who brought the letter.
page 502 note 3 Qur'án, xx, 46.
page 503 note 1 Acc. to Shadharát al-Dhahab (ii, 110), d. 246; acc. to Risálah Qushayriyyah (17), and Al-fabaqát al-Kubrá (i, 70), d. 230.
page 503 note 2 Acc. to Sh. Dh. (ii, 13), d. 205; ace. to R.Q. (15), and Ṭ.K. (i, 68), d. <b>215.
page 503 note 3 Quoted by Sarráj, , Kitáb al-Luma' 38Google Scholar.
page 504 note 1 Qur'án, v, 71.
page 504 note 2 Qur'án, xxviii, 56.
page 504 note 3 Sc. because man's merits disappear before the true judgment of God.
page 504 note 4 Sc. instead of the burden of my own shortcomings.
page 505 note 1 These verses are quoted (with “care” for “grief”), K.L. 246.
page 505 note 2 In R.Q. (22) and Sh. Dh. (ii, 245) these words are ascribed to Yúsuf ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Rází (the recipient of this letter) in a letter to Junayd.
page 505 note 3 This saying is quoted in T.B, (xiv, 314), as made by Dhu 'l-Nún to Yúsuf ibn al-Ḥusayn.
page 506 note 1 Qur'án, xxxvi, 10.
page 506 note 2 Qur'án, xxxvi, 70.
page 506 note 3 Presumably referring to the fact that he has quoted sayings of his correspondent, as noted above.
page 506 note 4 Spiritual sustenance, of oourse, which he has obtained from God and from his shaykhs.