Item Summary

Treatise on Shiʻite fiqh.

Descriptive Information

Title
ارشاد الاذهان الى احكام الايمان.
Transliterated Title
Irshād al-adhhān ilá aḥkām al-īmān.
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2546Yq
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/s7526g028
Publisher
[1623]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1623
Format
Manuscript
Extent
174 leaves : paper ; 283 x 195 (158 x 100) mm bound to 283 x 201 mm
Provenance
Waqf statement in Persian on leaf 2a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.
References
Mach, R. Catalogue of Arabic manuscripts (Yahuda section), no. 1560
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 211 (no. 3); S II, 206
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from leaf 2b, line 8.
Physical description: 16 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; extensive marginal and interlinear notes. Lacuna after leaf 171. Leaves 172-174 detached. Some damp staining; ragged edges.
Origin: 12 Rabīʻ II 1032 H [13 February 1623], by Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Anṣārī al-Astarābādī al-Nawkandī (leaf 173a).
Incipit: الحمد لله المتفرد بالقدم والدوام المتنزه عن مشابهة الاعراض والاجسام
Binding Note
Full maroon leather with gold-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and cornerpieces; brown leather doublures.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800
Shīʻah—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
donation inscriptions

Physical Characteristics

File Count
184

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/186a63b3-6da3-436f-8499-98f4af39125d/manifest