Abstract
The article provides an analysis of the contents of MS Or 579 of the Bodleian Library, which is a short treatise (risāla) on the imamate. The author, apparently a member of the religious class with strong Ṣūfī leanings, is not named. The ruler for whose service (li-ḫidma) the treatise was composed is addressed with a long series of flowery epithets and titles on the basis of which he could be identified as the Baḥrī Mamlūk sultan Baybars aṣ-Ṣāliḥī (r. 658-676/1260-1277). The special interest of the risāla lies in the date of its composition during the early phase of the Mamlūk sultanate.
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