Descriptive Information

Title

[Collection of Arabic texts].

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 303L

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/c534fr542

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1500-1599

Format

Manuscript

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

Copied A.H. 922 [A.D. 1516].

Fols. 55; 18.1 x 13.5 cm.; written surface 13.5 x 9 cm.; 19 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; with catchwords.

A collection containing:

1. A short treatise on the relative merits of prayer and fasting. The authorʼs name appears only in part, since the first folio is defective, the part appearing being Abū ʻAbd Allāh Kamāl al-Dīn ibn al-Imām...

2. A fāʼidah relative to the circumambulation of the Kaʻbah and the kissing of the Black Stone, by al-Adhraʻī, perhaps Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad, A.H. 783 [A.D. 1381].

3. A collection of judicial opinions by Sirāj al-Dīn al-Bulqīnī, A.H. 805 [A.D. 1403].

A few marginal notes. The last folio bears a fāʼidah written in A.H. 1002 [A.D. 1593/4]. MS in fair condition; Arabic binding with flap.

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1904.

Discovery Information

Subject

Fatwas—Early works to 1800

Fasting—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800

Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages—Saudi Arabia—Mecca—Early works to 1800

Prayer—Islam—Early works to 1800

Physical Characteristics

File Count

60

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/63ca75ef-a5eb-44a4-b153-e2bc356fffce/manifest

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