Item Summary

Acephalous and defective copy of a collection of twenty-five texts of the Druze community, comprising texts 15-23 and 25-40 in Sylvestre de Sacy's description of Druze writings in Exposé de la religion des Druzes (1838). The Risālat al-Inṣināʼ (text 24) does not appear in this copy.

Descriptive Information

Title
Risālah al-dāmighah lil-fāsiq ... [etc.].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 969Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/db78tf65p
Publisher
[ 17--?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1899
Format
Manuscript
Extent
143 leaves: paper ; 150 x 105 (105 x 85) mm. bound to 155 x 110 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 5274
Sylvestre de Sacy, A.I. Exposé de la religion des Druzes (1838), t. I, p. cccclxvi-dxvii, no. XV-XXXIX
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 1a-6b: [al-Risālah al-dāmighah]
aceph. and defective.
2. fol. 14a-22a: al-Risālah al-mawsūmah bi-al-Raḍī wa-al-taslīm.
3. fol. 22b-34b: Risālat al-Tanzīh ilá jamāʻat al-Muwaḥḥidīn wa-rufiʻat ilá al-Ḥaḍrah al-lāhūtīyah wa-uṭliqat.
4. fol. 35a-43a: al-Mawsūmah bi-Risālat al-nisāʼ al-kabīrah.
5. fol. 43a-48a: al-Ṣubḥah al-kāʼinah.
6. fol. 48a-50a: Nuskhat Sijill al-Mujtabá.
7. fol. 50a-55a: Taqlīd al-Riḍá safīr al-qudrah.
8. fol. 55a-60b: Nuskhat Taqlīd al-Muqtanā.
9. fol. 60b-62b: Mukātabah ilá ahl al-Kudīyah al-bayḍāʼ.
10. fol. 63a: [Crossed out text, corresponding to the last page of the previous text].
11. fol. 63b-65a: Sharṭ al-Imām ṣāḥib al-kashf.
12. fol. 65b-67a: al-Risālah allatī ursilat ilá walī al-ʻahd ʻahd al-muslimīn ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Ilyās.
13. fol. 67a-69a: Risālat Khumār Ibn Jaysh al-Sulaymānī al-ʻAkāwī.
14. fol. 69a-71a: al-Risālah al-munfadhah ilá al-Qāḍī.
15. fol. 71a-77a: al-Munājāh munājāt Walī al-ḥaqq.
16. fol. 77b-81b: al-Duʻāʼ al-mustajāb.
17. fol. 81b-83a: al-Taqdīs duʻāʼ al-sādiqīn duʻāʼ li-najāt al-Muwaḥḥidīn al-ʻārifīn.
18. fol. 83a-84b: Dhikr maʻrifat al-Imām wa-asmāʼ al-Ḥudūd al-ʻulwīyah rūḥānī wa-jusmānī.
19. fol. 84b-89a: Risālat al-Taḥdhīr wa-al-tanbīh.
20. fol. 89a-92a: al-Risālah al-mawsūmah bi-al-Iʻdhār wa-al-indhār al-shāfīyah li-qulūb ahl al-ḥaqq min al-marḍ wa-al-iḥtiyār.
21. fol. 92a-102a: Risālat al-Ghaybah.
22. fol. 102a-117a: Kitāb fīhi taqsīm al-ʻulūm wa-ithbāt al-ḥaqq wa-kashf al-maknūn.
23. fol. 117a-123b: al-Mawsūmah Risālat al-zinād wa-al-sabīl al-wāḍiḥ lil-ṭālib al-murtād.
24. fol. 124a-130a: al-Mawsūmah Risālat al-Shamʻah wa-mathaluhā fī al-tawḥīd wa-mathalu ḥudūdihā ʻalá al-maslak al-thālith.
25. fol. 130a-137b: al-Mawsūmah bi-al-Rushd wa-al-hidāyah.
26. fol. 137b-140a: Shiʻr al-Nafs
27. fol. 140b-143a: [Short texts by another hand, starting with the words "Maʻrifat al-ʻaql annahu ʻillat al-ʻilal" ; "Dhikr al-maqāmāt al-ʻashrah al-ʻAlī al-Bār", etc.]
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Physical description: 13 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red. Headings in red with black vocalization. European paper. Leaves missing between fol. 6 and 7, 14 and 15. Fol. 55 consists of two pasted leaves.
Binding Note
Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Both covers have a central panel with a red stamped mandorla, outlined in gold, developing into a chain motif linking to the outer border on the vertical axis. Gold motifs in the inner corners. Outer border consists of a guilloche and several fillets. Portion of the same decoration on the envelope flap. Line of flower motifs on the fore-edge flap. Paper pastedowns. Leather with one flower motif on the fore-edge flap. Spine wanting.

Discovery Information

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

Physical Characteristics

File Count
191

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/a2d6bd53-76bc-458a-ba62-49d323f5f3c3/manifest