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كتاب تنوير بصاير المقلدين في مناقب الايمة المجتهدين / تصنيف مرعي بن يوسف الحنبلي المقدسي الشامي.
Kitāb Tanwīr baṣāʼir al-muqallidīn fī manāqib al-aʼimmah al-mujtahidīn / taṣnīf Marʻī ibn Yūsuf al-Ḥanbalī al-Maqdisī al-Shāmī.
1778
A work on the characteristics of the founders of the four rites of Islam.
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- Publisher
- 29 Muḥarram 1192 [February 27, 1778?]
- People
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- Related Name
- حجاوي، احمد، active 18th century
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 909H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
A work on the characteristics of the founders of the four rites of Islam.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب تنوير بصاير المقلدين في مناقب الايمة المجتهدين / تصنيف مرعي بن يوسف الحنبلي المقدسي الشامي.
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb Tanwīr baṣāʼir al-muqallidīn fī manāqib al-aʼimmah al-mujtahidīn / taṣnīf Marʻī ibn Yūsuf al-Ḥanbalī al-Maqdisī al-Shāmī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 909H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc5712mk02g
- Publisher
- 29 Muḥarram 1192 [February 27, 1778?]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1778
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 127 leaves : paper ; 204 x 147 (165 x 100) mm bound to 204 x 150 mm.
- Provenance
- Ownership signatures: ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī dated Shawwāl 1144 (upper pastedown); Aḥmad ibn ʻUthmān dated 1161 (lower pastedown). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1848.
- Khulāṣat al-Athar IV, p. 359.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- A few marginal notes. On the colophon page is a note of collation.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 127 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 25 lines per page.
- Description: Headings, overlining, overwriting and other use of red ; watermarks (grapes, crown) ; MS in good condition.
- Origin: According to colophon copy completed Thursday 29 Muḥarram 1192 by Aḥmad al-Ḥujāwī al-Ḥanbalī (fol. 127a).
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم لا اله الا انت الحمد لمن بعث النبيين مبشرين ... اما بعد فيقول احقر الورى واذل الفقرا مرعى بن يوسف المقدسى الحنرلى ان الله سبحانه وتعالى قد اوجد هذا العالم ...
- Colophon: وکان الفراغ من تعليق هذه النسخة نهار الخميس وقت الظهر سلخ تسعة وعشرين من شهر المحرم سنة الف وماية اثنين وتسعين من الهجرة. على يد الفقرالعباد واحوجهم الى رحمة ربه يوم القتاد فقير رحمة ربه العلي احمد الحجاوي الحنبلي غفرالله له ولوالديه ولمشايخه ولکل المسلمين اجمعين امين امين امين
- Binding Note
- Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and brown marbled paper. Yellow paper pastedowns.
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Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 262
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/b39c4b9e-c75c-4741-94b0-14e6e50cac6d/manifest