Item Summary

Collection comprising three parts: 1) a short treatise reminding the articles of faith by ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad al-Suhrawardī, in ten chapters (faṣl) ; 2) several short excerpts in Ottoman Turkish, on the affirmative and negative attributes of God (excerpts from Sharḥ al-Birkawī [Birgivî] and Marifetname), on evil traits of character, such as envy and pride (from Marifetname), a text on the awliyāʼ Allāh, mentioning Ḥasan al-Baṣrī (from Marifetname), and a short text in Arabic ; 3) a versification of al-Zawājir ʻan iqtirāf al-kabāʼir. The first and last texts are copied for Daniyāl Sulṭān.

Descriptive Information

Title
اعلام الهدى وعقيدة ارباب التقى. كتاب منظومة الزواجر عن اقتراف الكبائر للشيخ ... نور الدين احمد بن حجر الهيثمي الشافعي
Transliterated Title
Iʻlām al-hudá wa-ʻaqīdat arbāb al-tuqá. Kitāb Manẓūmat al-Zawājir ʻan iqtirāf al-kabāʼir lil-Shaykh ... Nūr al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Ḥajar al-Haythamī al-Shāfiʻī.
Call Number
Islamic manuscripts, Garrett no. 794Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/6t053j59n
Publisher
Caucasus, [1851-1853]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1851-1853
Format
Manuscript
Extent
i, 64, iii leaves : paper ; 205 x 130 mm. bound to 215 x 135 mm.
Provenance
From the books of the entourage of Imām Shamīl. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 2013, 2279
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 1a-29b : Iʻlām al-hudá wa-ʻaqīdat arbāb al-tuqá / [ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad al-Suhrawardī].
Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 2279.
2. fol. 31b-37a : [Short excerpts in Ottoman Turkish and Arabic].
3. 40a-63a : Kitāb Manẓūmat al-Zawājir ʻan iqtirāf al-kabāʼir lil-Shaykh ... Nūr al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Ḥajar al-Haythamī al-Shāfiʻī / lil-Shaykh ... Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Qārūrī min awlād Nūḥ.
Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 2013.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from preamble of Text 1 (fol. 2b, l. 10-11) and title page of Text 2 (fol. 40a).
Physical description: The first and last parts of the collection (fol. 1-30 and 40-64) present similar caracteristics. The second part (fol. 31-39) is apparently a later addition, consisting of a double folio in yellow paper and a quire consisting of two green leaves and three cream leaves, with an embossed seal in Cyrillic on fol. 34.
Fol. 1b-29a (Text 1) written in medium large taʻlīq, in black ink, with use of red and green for overlining, and text-stops, with 12 lines per page (120 x 75 mm.). Some headings and words are written on a red or green ground. Interlinear and marginal annotations.
Fol. 31b-37a written in small naskh with elements of taʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Number of lines per page varies.
Fol. 40a-63a (Text 2) written in medium large taʻlīq, in black ink with red text-stops, with 11 lines per page (140 x 70 mm.). Headings in green with vocalization in red. The text is framed within two green lines. Interlinear and marginal annotations.
A few paper slips with ḥāshiyah or short excerpts of texts are placed between the original leaves.
Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Taṣawwuf tā 110". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "836/2 Ḥāʼ".
Origin: Text 1 copied (?, tadhkirah) by Khālid al-Karāṭī for his brother in God ... Dāniyāl Sulṭān in 1268 H. [1851 or 2] (colophon, fol. 29b). Text 2 copied for the same Dāniyāl ("al-Amīr al-karīm al-muhājir Dāniyāl") by Ghāzī Muḥammad al-BJDī, in Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1269 [Aug.-Sept. 1853] (see title page, fol. 40a and colophon, fol. 63a).
Patronage : Copied for Dāniyāl Sulṭān.
Binding Note
Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. The covers are similarly tooled, with a central gold-stamped and orange painted mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis. The mandorla and pendants are outlined in gold with radiating flecks. The outer border consists of a gilt guilloche outlined by a fillet on each side. Paper pastedowns. Rebacked.

Discovery Information

Subject
Ibn Ḥajar al-Haythamī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad approximately 1503-approximately 1566—Zawājir ʻan iqtirāf al-kabāʼir Versification
ابن حجر الهيثمي، احمد بن محمد—زواجر عن اقتراف الكبائر
Sufism—Doctrines—12th century
Sufism—Doctrines—13th century
Danii︠a︡l-sultan—Library
دانيال سلطان
Shāmil Imām 1798?-1871
شميل، امام
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
71

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/3a1822d0-0b39-4d9f-bfa0-89e3528039c5/manifest