Descriptive Information

Title

[Collection of Arabic texts].

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 375B

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/jd473006c

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1500-1599

Format

Manuscript

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

Fols. 48; 18 x 13-13.5 cm.; written surface 12.2-15 x 9-11 cm.; 19-25 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; with catchwords; entries in red.

A collection containing:

1. ḥilyat al-ṭirāz fī ḥall masāʼil al-alghāz, a treatise on singular cases in jurisprudence by Taqī al-Dīn Abū Bakr ibn Zayd al-Khuzāʻī al-ḥanbalī al-Maqdisī, who flourished ca. A.H. 873 [A.D. 1468/9]. See Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 5010. Copy was made A.H. 859 [A.D. 1455] by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Maqdisī.

2. A short note on oaths and divorce by Aḥmad ibn Taymīyah, A.H. 728 [A.D. 1328].

3. A discussion on the tradition inna aghbaṭa awliyāʼī ʻindī...

4. al-Muʻīn ʻalá fiʻl sunnat al-talqīn, a manual on the liturgical instructions and prayers over the dead in preparation for the catechism by Munkar and Nakīr, by Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd, known as al-Nājī, A.H. 900 [A.D. 1495]. See ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 644. Copy is probably from XVIIth century.

5. Risālah fī al-daʻwah bi-al-majhūl, a discussion of 70 legal cases by ʻAlam al-Dīn Ṣālih al-Bulqīnī, A.H. 868 [A.D. 1464]. Copy probably from XVIth century.

6. A treatise on the ʻIrāqī and Syrian (Shaʼmī) system of weights. The copy was made in A.H. 966 [A.D. 1558/9] by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Kurdī.

MS in fair condition; Arabic binding with flap.

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

Discovery Information

Subject

Death—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800

Hadith—Commentaries—Early works to 1800

Hanbalites—Early works to 1800

Islamic law—Early works to 1800

Prayer—Islam—Early works to 1800

Shafiites—Early works to 1800

Weights and measures, Arab—Early works to 1800

Physical Characteristics

File Count

56

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/7df18746-02d7-4fdc-bbb8-275690a85d03/manifest

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