Item Summary

Treatise on the principles that should govern kings in their private and public life. Incomplete at the beginning. Begins with the end of Bāb 4, al-rukn al-awwal ("Fī maʻrifat arkān al-mamlakah"). Contains also prayers, one attributed to Abū Madyan.

Descriptive Information

Title
[المنهج المسلوك في سياسة الملوك]
Transliterated Title
[al-Manhaj al-maslūk fī siyāsat al-mulūk].
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 138Hq
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/f4752s257
Publisher
[1703]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1703
Format
Manuscript
Extent
81 leaves : paper ; 295 x 209 (203 x 120) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 781.
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 461 (13/1)
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 832 (13/1)
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 781
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a-76a: [al-Manhaj al-maslūk fī siyāsat al-mulūk] / ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Naṣr Shayzarī.
2. fol. 76b-77a: Taṣlīyah al-mubārakah al-musammāh bi-al-Kunz al-aʻẓam.
3. fol. 77b-78b: Istighfār / Abū Madyan.
4. fol. 79a-79b: ʻAwdah / Ḥarīrī.
5. fol. 79b-80a: Duʻā al-mubārak al-mashʹhūr bi-al-Faṣl / al-Imām Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 81 ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals beginning with "11" ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 15 long lines per page ; frame-ruled in red ; outer frame in red.
Description: Headings are framed in two red fillets and have a yellow background ; decoration and some headings in red ; vowel signs ; watermarks.
Origin: [al-Manhaj al-maslūk fī siyāsat al-mulūk] Copied in 1115 by al-Sayyid al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥajjāfī(?) in ʻUdayn(?) (colophon, fol. 76a).
Incipit: قل عقلاهم ما رأينا مثل المأمون جلالةً وعظماً ولا رأينا مثل وزيره في حسن سمته وكمال أوصافه
Explicit: فهذا اليوم سيد المسلمين هذا وقد أنتهينا بما صمّناه بعد ما أوصحناه وذلك وسع الطاقة وجهد المقل وعلى الله أتوكّل وبه أستعين وهو حسبي وكفى ونعم الوكيل ونعم المولى ونعم النصير ولا حول ولا قوة الا باللّه العلّي العظيم وصلى الله ... والحمد لله ربّ العالمين
Binding Note
Unbound.

Discovery Information

Subject
Education of princes—Arab countries—Early works to 1800
Political science—Islamic Empire—History—Early works to 1800
Islam—Prayers and devotions—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
162

Institutional Information

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

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/74458575-94ed-4579-bf61-f3eca3112d65/manifest