Item Summary

Treatise against participating in celebrations of Jewish and Christian festivals.

Descriptive Information

Title
اقتضاء الصراط المستقيم ومخالفة اصحاب الجحيم
Transliterated Title
Iqtiḍāʼ al-ṣirāṭ al-mustaqīm wa-mukhālafat aṣḥāb al-jaḥīm.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3889Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/6108vd87d
Publisher
[ between 14--? and 1721]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1400-1721
Format
Manuscript
Extent
i, 170 leaves: paper ; 184 x 134 (137 x 97) mm.
Provenance
Several ownership statements on fol. i (before fol. 1), signed Yaḥyá al-Bājī(? or Tājī), dated 1133 H. [1720 or 21], with seal ; one signed ʻAbd Allāh Ibn Ḥamd al-ʻAtīqī al-Najdī al-Kuwayt al-Ḥanbalī, who bought the ms. in the Mosque of the Ummayads [in Damascus?] 27 Jumādá al-Awwal 1211 [28 Nov. 1796], with seal. One ownership statement on fol. 1a, signed al-Ḥājj ʻAlī Ibn al-Ḥājj ʻUthmān al-Labadī, with seal dated 1261? H. [1845?]. 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 colophon (fol. 168a).
25 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Dark cream paper with laid (and chain?) lines visible. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals. One leaf missing between fol. 8 and 9 (corresponds to ed. Riyāḍ 1994, vol. 1, p. 99, l. 10 - p. 104, l. 4).
Collation: Paper, fol. i, 170 ; i (thick paper, with inscriptions) 1¹⁰ (-1, between fol. 8 and 9, with loss of text) 2-10¹⁰ 11¹⁰ (+1, fol. 109, addition with mention of a ḥadīth) 12-17¹⁰ ; catchword on the verso of each leaf of the first quire and on a few other leaves ; beginning of quire marked by sign (three dots - slash - three dots) on the upper corner (missing on the 8th quire) ; most quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals in the form: "thālith" (see fol. 20a).
Incipit: الحمد لله الذي اكمل لنا ديننا واتم علينا نعمته ... وبعد فاني كنت قد نهيت اما مبتدياً او مجيباً عن التشبيه بالكفار
Explicit: فهدي الله الذين امنوا لما اختلفوا فيه من الحق باذنه والله يهدي من يشاء الى صراط المستقيم
Binding Note
Unbound. Traces of thread.

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
342

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/0f4fcec6-1a9b-46f2-af0d-459dd6ddca9e/manifest