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Short biographies of the great Muslim Imāms and the four orthodox caliphs. It contains the lives of Abū Ḥanīfah [699-767], Mālik ibn Anas [713-795], al-Shāfiʻī [767-820] and Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal [780-855], after which occurs a section on the love of God followed by one on the virtues of the four orthodox caliphs. This is followed by a section on the asceticism of Abū ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥākī, one on the excellences of ʻĀshūrāʼ, one on the birth of the Prophet, one on prayer and a section on the death of the Prophet. Following the colophon, further chapters are added on the Nile, saints, and in eulogy of the Prophet, apparently in the same hand.
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Manuscripts of the Islamic World
Manuscripts of the Islamic World offers a curated selection of extraordinary manuscripts hosted or held by Princeton University Library. The manuscripts are predominantly in Arabic, but there are also many in Persian and Ottoman Turkish. The manuscript digitizations here are a fraction of the full Manuscripts of the Islamic World collections, housed in Special Collections in Princeton's Firestone Library. Efforts are ongoing to make the manuscripts of these collections more accessible through conservation, catalog record updates, and digitization.
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- Related Name
- بضغاني، برهان الدين بن محمد، active 17th century
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 207H
- Language
- Arabic
- Subject
- Muḥammad Prophet -632—Early works to 1800
- Caliphs—Biography—Early works to 1800
- God (Islam)—Worship and love—Early works to 1800
- Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
- Muslim scholars—Biography—Early works to 1800
- Tenth of Muḥarram—Early works to 1800
- Nile River—Early works to 1800
- Headbands
- Watermarks
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