Descriptive Information

Title

[Collection of Arabic texts on Islamic doctrine].

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 345B

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dr26z1006

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1400-1499

Format

Manuscript

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

Fols. 38; 17.5 x 13.6 cm.; written surface 13 x 10 cm.; 23 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; with catchwords; entries in red; with rubrications.

A collection containing:

1. ʻAqīdat al-Ṭaḥāwī, a tract on the articles of faith by al-Ṭaḥāwī, A.H. 321 [A.D. 933]. See ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 216; Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 1938.

2. al-Sawād al-aʻẓam, a compendium of theology based on 62 questions and answers, by Abū al-Qāsim Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad al-ḥakīm al-Samarqandī, A.H. 342 [A.D. 953].

According to the MS the author is al-Bukhārī, A.H. 256 [A.D. 870]. Cf. ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, p. 629; Brock. I, p. 174.

3. al-Hidāyah min al-iʻtiqād, a commentary by Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Rāzī, fl. ca. A.H. 720 [A.D. 1320/1], on Badʼ al-amālī, an ode on the articles of faith by Sirāj al-Dīn al-Ūshī, fl. ca. A.H. 569 [A.D. 1173/4]. See ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 559; Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 2409.

MS in good condition; Arabic binding. Probably from XVth century.

Acquired from Bārūdī, Beirūt, A.D. 1925.

Discovery Information

Subject

Ūshī, ʻAlī ibn ʻUthmān active 12th century—Badʼ al-amālī

Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800

Physical Characteristics

File Count

42

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/c3d6f489-3fc1-4f4b-a069-a2b30f8a912e/manifest

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