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كتاب كشف الحجاب والران عن وجه اسئلة الجان / تأليف القطب الغوث الرباني الشيخ عبد الوهاب الشعراني الشافعي الانصاري.
Kitāb Kashf al-ḥijāb wa-al-rān ʻan wajh asʼilat al-jānn / taʼlīf al-quṭb al-ghawth al-rabbānī al-shaykh ʻAbd al-Wahhāb al-Shaʻrānī al-Shāfiʻī al-Anṣārī.
1600
A treatise on jinn.
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- Publisher
- [16--?]
- People
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- Author
- Shaʻrānī, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad, approximately 1493-1565 or 1566
- شعراني، عبد الوهاب بن احمد، approximately 1493-1565 or 1566
- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1036H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
A treatise on jinn.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب كشف الحجاب والران عن وجه اسئلة الجان / تأليف القطب الغوث الرباني الشيخ عبد الوهاب الشعراني الشافعي الانصاري.
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb Kashf al-ḥijāb wa-al-rān ʻan wajh asʼilat al-jānn / taʼlīf al-quṭb al-ghawth al-rabbānī al-shaykh ʻAbd al-Wahhāb al-Shaʻrānī al-Shāfiʻī al-Anṣārī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1036H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcqj72pk751
- Publisher
- [16--?]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1600
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 44 leaves : paper ; 204 x 146 (146 x 100) mm. bound to 205 x 148 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1591.
- Brockelmann, C. GAL, II (442), SII (464).
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from fol. 1a.
- Fol. 43b has an almost completely obliterated inscription which is either an ownership statement or the name of the scribe and possibly the date of the copy.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 44 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 25 lines per page.
- Description: Rubricated ; written in a medium small script in black ink.
- Incipit: بسملة وبه نستعين قل اعوذ برب الفلق من شر ما خلق ومن شر غاسق اذا وقب ومن شر المقاثات فى العقد ومن شر حاسد اذ احسد
- Explicit: انتهت الاجوبة عن سوالكم ايها الاخوان من الجان فتاملوا فيها وامعنوا النظر وان توفقتم فى شى فراجعونى او راجعوا غيرى من العارفين وقد اجبتكم بحكم الوقت ... واستغفر الله من كل ذنب فعلته الاركان او خطر على الجنان ولا حول ولاقوة الا بالله العلى العظيم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم امين
- Binding Note
- Type II (with flap) cover in brown leather and marbled paper. Substantial damage to the binding with the ms loose inside the covers and outer surfaces worn.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 100
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/41c08646-ec6f-4782-be16-a9ddada3228f/manifest