Item Summary

Short treatise on theodicy, discussing Ghazzālī's best of all possible worlds, expressed in his statement "Laysa fī al-imkān abdaʻ mimmā kān". The text is followed on fol. 10b by an excerpt from the Fatwas of Abū al-Faḍl ibn Ḥajar [al-ʻAsqalānī, d. 1449].

Descriptive Information

Title
تشييد الاركان من ليس في الامكان ابدع مما كان / تأليف الامام العالم العامل العلامة جلال الدين السيوطي
Transliterated Title
Tashyīd al-arkān min laysa fī al-imkān abdaʻ mimmā kān / taʼlīf al-Imām al-ʻālim al-ʻāmil al-ʻallāmah Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 303Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/d791sj78t
Publisher
[ between 1641? and 18--?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1641-1899
Format
Manuscript
Extent
10 leaves: paper ; 216 x 158 (150 x 92) mm. bound to 217 x 160 mm.
Provenance
Two ownership statements on fol. 1a, signed ʻAbd al-Ṣamad al-Ḥusaynī, dated 1257? [1841 or 42], and Maḥmūd al-Sūqī? al-Marʻalī?, dated 1330? [1911 or 12]. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 3030
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a). The same title appears in the preamble (fol. 1b, l. 16).
25 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. European glazed paper with watermark. Worm-eaten (particularly in the inner margin, with loss of text).
Date "1050" written in another ink at the end of the text (fol. 10a).
Collation: Paper, fol. 10 ; 1¹⁰ ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
Incipit: الحمد لله الدلا اوجد الموجودات على ابدع مثال واحسن منوال ... وبعد فقد نقل عن الامام حجة الاسلام ولي الله تعالي ابو حامد الغزالي
Explicit: السمن كلما ازداد فيه نظرا ازداد تحيرا والله تعالى اعلم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم والحمد لله رب العالمين وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل
Binding Note
Dark blue paper on paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Cloth spine.

Discovery Information

Subject
Theodicy—Early works to 1800
God (Islam)—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Ghazzālī 1058-1111—Metaphysics—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
15

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/6316da66-6069-48f2-a29b-668f51c76429/manifest