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Collection of twenty-six texts of the Druze community, comprising texts 15-40 in Sylvestre de Sacy's description of Druze writings in Exposé de la religion des Druzes (1838).
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- Publisher
- [ between 17--? and 18--?]
- People
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- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 966H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
Collection of twenty-six texts of the Druze community, comprising texts 15-40 in Sylvestre de Sacy's description of Druze writings in Exposé de la religion des Druzes (1838).
Descriptive Information
- Title
- رسالة الدامغة للفاسق ... [الخ.].
- Transliterated Title
- Risālah al-dāmighah lil-fāsiq ... [etc.].
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 966H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc4f16cf31t
- Publisher
- [ between 17--? and 18--?]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1700-1899
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 104 leaves: paper ; 205 x 155 (145 x 110) mm bound to 205 x 165 mm.
- Provenance
- Bought from ʻAlī al-Jawharī (note on fol. 1a, with mention of price). 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., 1615
- Sylvestre de Sacy, A.I. Exposé de la religion des Druzes (1838), t. I, p. cccclxvi-dxvii, no. XV-XL
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Contents
- 1. fol. 2a-12b: al-Risālah al-dāmighah lil-fāsiq al-radd ʻalá al-Nuṣayrī laʻanahu al-Mawlá fī kull kawr wa-dawr.
- 2. fol. 12b-20b: al-Risālah al-mawsūmah bi-al-Riḍá wa-al-taslīm.
- 3. fol. 20b-29b: Risālat al-Tanzīh ilá jamāʻat al-Muwaḥḥidīn.
- 4. fol. 29b-36a: al-Mawsūmah bi-Risālat al-nisāʼ al-kabīrah.
- 5. fol. 36a-39b: al-Ṣubḥah al-kāʼinah.
- 6. fol. 39b-41a: Nuskhat Sijill al-Mujtabá.
- 7. fol. 41a-44a: Taqlīd al-Riḍá safīr al-qudrah.
- 8. fol. 44a-48a: Nuskhat Taqlīd al-Muqtaná.
- 9. fol. 48a-b: Mukātabah ilá ahl al-Kudīyah al-bayḍāʼ.
- 10. fol. 48b-49b: Risālat al-Inṣināʼ.
- 11. fol. 49b-50b: Sharṭ al-Imām ṣāḥib al-kashf.
- 12. fol. 51a-52a: al-Risālah allatī ursilat ilá walī al-ʻahd ʻahd al-muslimīn ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Ilyās.
- 13. fol. 52a-53b: Risālat Khumār Ibn Jaysh al-Sulaymānī al-ʻAkāwī.
- 14. fol. 53b-55a: al-Risālah al-munfadhah ilá al-Qāḍī.
- 15. fol. 55a-59a: al-Munājāh munājāt Walī al-ḥaqq.
- 16. fol. 59a-62a: al-Duʻāʼ al-mustajāb.
- 17. fol. 62a-63a: al-Taqdīs duʻāʼ al-sādiqīn duʻāʼ li-najāt al-Muwaḥḥidīn al-ʻārifīn.
- 18. fol. 63a-64a: Dhikr maʻrifat al-Imām wa-asmāʼ al-Ḥudūd al-ʻulwīyah rūḥānī wa-jusmānī.
- 19. fol. 64b-67b: Risālat al-Taḥdhīr wa-al-tanbīh.
- 20. fol. 67b-70a: al-Risālah al-mawsūmah bi-al-Iʻdhār wa-al-indhār al-shāfīyah li-qulūb ahl al-ḥaqq min al-marḍ wa-al-iḥtiyār.
- 21. fol. 70a-77a: Risālat al-Ghaybah.
- 22. fol. 77a-88a: Kitāb fīhi taqsīm al-ʻulūm wa-ithbāt al-ḥaqq wa-kashf al-maknūn.
- 23. fol. 88a-92b: al-Mawsūmah bi-Risālat al-zinād wa-al-sabīl al-wāḍiḥ lil-ṭālib al-murtād.
- 24. fol. 92b-97a: al-Mawsūmah bi-Risālat al-Shamʻah wa-mathaluhā fī al-tawḥīd wa-mathalu ḥudūdihā ʻalá al-maslak al-thālith.
- 25. fol. 97a-102a: al-Mawsūmah bi-al-Rushd wa-al-hidāyah.
- 26. fol. 102a-104a: Shiʻr al-Nafs wa-mā tawfīqī illā billāh.
- 27. fol. 104a: [Prayer, beginning with the words: "ʻAzza al-qāʼil fīmā qāla mawlānā"].
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from first treatise (fol. 2a).
- Note mentioning the birth date of a son (Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1225) on fol. 104b (inverted). Inscriptions on the pastedowns of the cover, including the name "ʻAlī al-Jawharī" and the no. "227" (corresponding to Brill's list).
- Layout: 13 lines per page.
- Description: Written in medium large script in black ink with use of red. The text is vocalized. European paper with watermark. Titles of treatises in green ink with red vocalization and fillings, or in red ink with green vocalization and fillings ; a few in black ink with red.
- Binding Note
- Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather over paper pasteboards. Blind-tooled with a central mandorla enscribed in a rectangular frame consisting of fillets, and an outer border consisting of fillets, guilloche, and a running pattern of impressions of a square stamp on covers. Similar blind-tooling on the envelope flap. Impressions of a stamp with a four-petals flower motif on the fore-edge flap. Tan paper pastedowns.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 218
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/8f3f3c8b-49df-4dad-abf6-7b6f3ae74311/manifest