Item Summary

Treatise against participating in celebrations of Jewish and Christian festivals.

Descriptive Information

Title
اقتضاء الصراط المستقيم في مخالفة اهل الجحيم / للعلامة شيخ الاسلام ابن تيمية
Transliterated Title
Iqtiḍāʼ al-ṣirāṭ al-mustaqīm fī mukhālafat ahl al-jaḥīm / lil-ʻAllāmah Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymīyah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3642Y
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcth83md15m
Publisher
[ between 15--? and 17--?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1500-1799
Format
Manuscript
Extent
144 leaves: paper ; 277 x 188 (210 x 145) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 2624
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 123/71
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
25 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink. The topics are written on the margins by a later hand. Light cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Fol. 143-144 are later additions on European glazed paper with watermark (Tre Lune). Waqf, see waqf statement on fol. 1a, refering to al-Shaykh Muṣṭafá ibn Saʻd al-Suyūṭī thumma al-Zaḥībānī(?). Obliterated ownership statement in pencil on fol. 1a. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (with two fol. 121).
Collation: Paper, fol. 144 ; 1-13¹⁰ 14¹⁰ (+ 3 fol. on the same paper + 2 later fol., on European glazed paper) ; catchword on the verso of the first four fol. and the last fol. of each quire .
Incipit: قال شيخنا وسيدنا الامام ... بن تيمية الحراني ادام الله بركته ... الحمد لله الذي اكمل لنا ديننا واتم علينا نعمته ... وبعد فاني كنت قد نهيت اما مبتدياً او مجيباً عن التشبه بالكفار
Explicit (fol. 143b): فهدي الله الذين امنوا لما اختلفوا فيه من الحق باذنه والله يهدى من يشاء الى صراط مستقيم
Binding Note
Only the cloth of the spine is extant.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islam—Customs and practices—Early works to 1800
Islamic heresies—Early works to 1800
Christianity—Controversial literature—Early works to 1800
Judaism—Controversial literature—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
293

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ed253c94-ac09-4878-bb8b-3bbb8656c16e/manifest