Item Summary

A work stating the conflicting views of philosophers as to the attributes of God. It was composed at the request of the Ottoman Sultan Muḥammad II (855-886/1451-1481). The author follows the same outline of Tahāfut al-falāsifah, the famous work on the same subject by al-Ghazzālī.

Descriptive Information

Title
الذخر.
Transliterated Title
[al-Dhukhr].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 964H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcrj430h054
Publisher
[15th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1400-1499
Extent
176 leaves : paper ; 177 x 127 (120-135 x 90) mm bound to 179 x 132 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1498.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, pp. 475/6.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
A few marginal notes. Ḥājjī Khalīfah refers to the work under the name al-Dhakhīrah.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 176 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19-21 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; some vowel signs ; some paper tinted yellow ; MS in fair condition, mended.
Origin: Probably from the latter part of the XVth century. Very rare.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم عونك يا لطيف سبحانك سبحانك اللهم يا متفردا بالازلية والقدم ... اما بعد فان جملة الآراء تطابقت وجلة العقلاء ...
Colophon: ولنختم الکتاب حامدين لله تعالى ملهم الصواب آملين منه جزيل الجزاء ونبيل الثواب ومصلين على سيد من اوحي بخطاب واوتي الکتاب وعلى آله واصحابه خيرآل واصحاب وعلى اتباعه ما تعاقب الجديدان في الذهاب والاياب ومسلمين عليه وعليهم تسليما کثيراً کثيراً
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in dark brown leather. Blind-stamped and -tooled mandorla and blind-tooled decorative edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Islam and philosophy—Early works to 1800
Blind tooled bindings
Headbands
Colored papers

Physical Characteristics

File Count
362

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/66b5a838-3e1f-4818-aff6-d0f562ae064b/manifest