Item Summary

Collection of twenty-eight texts of the Druze community, comprising texts 5, 13, 15-40 in Sylvestre de Sacy's description of Druze writings in Exposé de la religion des Druzes (1838).

Descriptive Information

Title
Risālah al-dāmighah lil-fāsiq ... [etc.].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 100
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcs7526t197
Publisher
[between 19--? and 1920]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1900-1920
Format
Manuscript
Extent
203 leaves: paper ; 210 x 130 (149 x 86) mm. bound to 212 x 140 mm.
Provenance
An accompanying note from lcb [L. Carl Brown] to Eric [Ormsby?] mentions a letter to Glocker and the name of Park Johnson in connection with this ms.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Sylvestre de Sacy, A.I. Exposé de la religion des Druzes (1838), t. I, p. cccclxvi-dxvii, no. V, XIII, XV-XXXIX
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 5b-6b: Mīthāq Walī al-zamān.
2. fol. 6b-30a: al-Mawsūmah bi-Kashf al-ḥaqāʼiq.
3. fol. 30b-47a: al-Risālah al-dāmighah lil-fāsiq al-radd ʻalá al-Nuṣayrī laʻanahu al-Mawlá fī kull kawr wa-dawr.
4. fol. 47b-61a: al-Risālah al-mawsūmah bi-al-Riḍá wa-al-taslīm ilá kāfat al-Muwaḥḥidīn.
5. fol. 61a-76b: Risālat al-Tanzīh ilá jamāʻat al-Muwaḥḥidīn.
6. fol. 76b-87a: al-Mawsūmah bi-Risālat al-nisāʼ al-kabīrah.
7. fol. 87b-93b: al-Ṣubḥah al-kāʼinah.
8. fol. 94a-96a: Nuskhat Sijill al-Mujtabá.
9. fol. 96a-102a: Taqlīd al-Riḍá safīr al-qudrah.
10. fol. 102a-108a: Nuskhat Taqlīd al-Muqtaná.
11. fol. 108b-109a: Mukātabah ilá ahl al-Kudīyah al-bayḍāʼ.
12. fol. 109a-110b: Risālat al-Inṣināʼ.
13. fol. 111a-113a: Sharṭ al-Imām ṣāḥib al-kashf.
14. fol. 113a-115a: al-Risālah allatī ursilat ilá walī al-ʻahd ʻahd al-muslimīn ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Ilyās.
15. fol. 115a-117b: Risālat Khumār Ibn Jaysh al-Sulaymānī al-ʻAkāwī.
16. fol. 117b-120a: al-Risālah al-munfadhah ilá al-Qāḍī.
17. fol. 120a-126b: al-Munājāh munājāt Walī al-ḥaqq.
18. fol. 126b-131b: al-Duʻāʼ al-mustajāb.
19. fol. 131b-133b: al-Taqdīs duʻāʼ al-sādiqīn duʻāʼ li-najāt al-Muwaḥḥidīn al-ʻārifīn.
20. fol. 133b-135b: Dhikr maʻrifat al-Imām wa-asmāʼ al-Ḥudūd al-ʻulwīyah rūḥānī wa-jusmānī.
21. fol. 135b-140b: Risālat al-Taḥdhīr wa-al-tanbīh.
22. fol. 140b-145a: al-Risālah al-mawsūmah bi-al-Iʻdhār wa-al-indhār al-shāfīyah li-qulūb ahl al-ḥaqq min al-marḍ wa-al-iḥtiyār.
23. fol. 145b-156b: Risālat al-Ghaybah.
24. fol. 156b-174b: Kitāb fīhi taqsīm al-ʻulūm wa-ithbāt al-ḥaqq wa-kashf al-maknūn.
25. fol. 174b-181b: al-Mawsūmah bi-Risālat al-zinād wa-al-sabīl al-wāḍiḥ lil-ṭālib al-murtād.
26. fol. 181b-188b: al-Mawsūmah bi-Risālat al-Shamʻah wa-mathaluhā fī al-tawḥīd wa-mathalu ḥudūdihā ʻalá al-maslak al-thālith.
27. fol. 188b-196b: al-Mawsūmah bi-al-Rushd wa-al-hidāyah.
28. fol. 196b-199b: Shiʻr al-Nafs wa-mā tawfīqī illā bi-Llāh.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from text 3.
Physical description: 11 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black, red, green, and blue ink. The text is framed within two lines in red or red and green. Biscuit paper with fibers visible on the surface. Marginal annotations in colored ink, apparently by the same han as the main text. Ink has bled through in some places.
Inscription recording the birth of a male child (named Kanj) on 25 Shaʻbān 1338 [May 14, 1920] (fol. 2a).
Binding Note
Red leather over pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Blind and color-tooled. Marble paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Druzes—Sacred books
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
439

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/937a6a64-b0ee-4c07-bc14-fdbaf8ab1105/manifest