Item Summary

A short treatise on civic and legal principles, asceticism, worship and moral conduct, derived from the traditions of Muḥammad.

Descriptive Information

Title
رسالة في آداب الشريعة وآداب السياسة.
Transliterated Title
Risālah fī ādāb al-sharīʻah wa-ādāb al-siyāsah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1092H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcdf65vm54p
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1799
Extent
23 leaves : paper ; 210 x 153 (152 x 111) mm bound to 210 x 156 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1941.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from caption (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes. Inscriptions on upper pastedown.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 23 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 20 lines per page.
Description: Overwriting and overlining in red ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in fair condition.
Origin: Probably from the XVIIIth century
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله العلي الكبير ... اما بعد فان احق ما نطق به اللسان بعد كلام الله تعالى الذي لا ياتيه الباطل من بين يديه ولا من خلفه تنزيل من حكيم حميد الالفاظ النبويه ...
Colophon: وفيما اوردناه کفاية لاولي المعرفة والدارية ونسأله سبحانه ان يعاملنا بالغفران ويجعلنا في شفاعة سيد ولد عدنان صلى الله وسلم عليه وان ينصر سلطاننا ويلهمه ويرشده والحمد لله وحده
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and paper.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
57

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/fb74c2ff-6fa4-4f6b-a4e4-f93d747bf748/manifest