Item Summary

A miscellany of Arabic texts on a variety of topics interspersed with fawāʼid consisting of poetry, prayers, quotations and other inscriptions.

Descriptive Information

Title
اصول الحكم في نظام العالم ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Uṣūl al-ḥikam fī niẓām al-ʻālam ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1162H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc2n49td43w
Publisher
[17th century]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1600-1699
Format
Manuscript
Extent
227 leaves : paper ; 158-182 x 112-117 (110-140 x 70-80) mm bound to 180 x 125 mm.
Provenance
Seal impression (fol. 2a). Ownership signature: Ibrāhīm al-Ṣūfiyawī? (fol. 123a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 2016.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 339.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a: [Table of contents]
2. fol. 1b-11a: [Inscriptions] Includes some records of births.
3. fol. 11b-27b: Uṣūl al-ḥikam fī niẓām al-ʻālam / Kāfī al-Āqḥiṣārī. On government.
4. fol. 28a-29a: [Inscriptions]
5. fol. 29b-87b: Muḥāḍarāt Maḥmūd / Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad. A collection of 23 maqālahs debating various subjects of religion, ethics, and morality.
6. fol. 88b-91a: [Miscellany]. Short commentary on al-Fātiḥah, prayer and other inscriptions.
7. fol. 91b- 122a: Ḥayāt al-arwāḥ wa-najāt al-ashbāḥ. On death, the day of judgment, and the lives of several holy men.
8. fol. 122b-124a: [Inscriptions].
9. fol. 124b-130a: Tafsīr Tabārak. Commentary on Juzʼ al-Mulk.
10. fol. 130b-135a: [Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Tafsīr al-Bayḍāwī] / Saʻdī Chalabī. A gloss on al-Bayḍāwī's commentary on on Sūrat al-Mulk (LXVII).
11. fol. 135b-138a: [Extracts and inscriptions]
12. fol. 138b-158b: Radd ʻalá Ibn Kamāl Pāshā bi-mā raddahu ʻalá Ṣadr-al-Sharīʻah fī kitābihi al-Iṣlāḥ wa-al-īḍāḥ. A refutation of the charges which Ibn Kamāl Pāshā brought against Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Awwal and Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Thānī in his work al-Iṣlāḥ wa-al-īḍāḥ. This refutation is probably by Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, known as al-Birkāwī.
13. fol. 158b-159a: [Inscriptions]
14. fol. 159b-170a: Risālah ʻalá mawḍiʻ min al-Miftāḥ. A gloss on Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm, a work on grammar and syntax by al-Sakkākī. References are made in the gloss to the commentaries on the same work by Saʻd al-Dīn al-Taftāzānī and al-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī.
15. fol. 171b-173a: [Inscriptions]
16. fol. 173b-182b: Risālah fī al-kalām maʻa al-Bayḍāwī. A gloss on a section of Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-taʼwīl, the commentary on the Qurʼan by al-Bayḍāwī dealing with Sūrah II.
17. fol. 182b-184a: [Inscriptions]
18. fol. 184b-200a: [Risālah ʻalá kitāb al-nikāḥ min al-Hidāyah]. A gloss by Muḥammad Bey on the section on matrimony in al-Hidāyah, which is a commentary by al-Farghānī al-Marghīnānī on his own compendium of law and jurisprudence entitled Bidāyat al-Mubtadī.
19. fol. 200a-201a: [Inscriptions]
20. fol. 201b-205b: Risālah fī jawāz al-ʻamal li-al-muqallid bi-mā lā riwāyah la-hu ʻan imāmih. On analogy in jurisprudence.
21. fol. 205b-208a: [Inscriptions]. Poetry.
22. fol. 208b-211b: Risālah yataʻallaqa bi-al-rūḥ wa-al-jasad. Theological treatise on the soul and the body by Ibn Kamāl Pāshā.
23. 211b-216a: Risālah fī al-kalām ʻalá al-madhāhib fī taʼlīf al-jism. Philosophical treatise on the body by Ibn Kamāl Pāshā.
24. fol. 216a-225b: Risālah murattabah fī bayān al-maʻād al-jismānī. On bodily resurrection by Ibn Kamāl Pāshā.
25. fol. 227a: [Inscription]
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from introduction of first work (fol. 12b).
Marginal notes. Tables of contents (fol. 1a and 123b). Magic square with angel names (fol. 28b). Fawāʼid between the works, including some written in various shapes (fol. 88a-b).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 227 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 11-21 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; some paper tinted yellow ; watermarks (unidentified circular design; mark topped with a cross; mark topped with a flower; roman-alphabet initials with trefoil) ; MS in fair condition.
Origin: [Uṣūl al-ḥikam] Copied Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1004 by Ḥamdān Sarbwāyān (f. 28b) -- [Muḥāḍarāt] Copied 1026 by Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd (f. 87b) -- [Ḥayāt al-arwāḥ] Copied by ʻUmar ibn al-Muṣṭafá (f. 122a)
Incipit: [اصول الحكم] حمد لك اللهم مالك الملك -- [محاضرات] بسم ... حمدا اولا واخرا للاول والآخر وشكرا باطنا وظاهرا -- [حياة] بسم ... الحمد لله الذى احيى قلوب العارفين بالحيوة -- [تفسير تبارك] بسم ... تبارك تعالى عما يدرك الحواس -- [حاشية على تفسير] بسم ... قوله سورة الملك وسيمى تبارك ايضا -- [رد على ابن كمال] بسم ... الحمد لله الذي جعل العلم في الدين -- [رسالة على موضع] بسم ... الحمد لله وحده والصلوه ... واما الحاله المقتضة لترك المسند -- [رسالة في كلام مع البيضاوي] بسم ... قال الله تع فلا تجعلوا لله اندادا؟ وانتم تعلمون -- [رسالة على كتاب النكاح] بسم ... الحمد لله المتقدس ذاته الاحدية عن الاكفاء -- [رسالة في جواز] بسم ... الحمد لله وصلى اللع على سيدنا محمد ... قوله فلا يجوز العمل للمقلد -- [رسالة ... بالروح] بسم ... الحمد لله الذى خلق الانسان اطورا نفسا وروحا وجسما -- [رسالة في كلام على المذاهب] بسم ... الحمد لله الذى ذاته غير مشتبه بالجسم -- [رسالة مرتبة في بيان] بسم ... الحمد لله رب العباد منه المبداء واليه المعاد
Binding Note
Later? type II (with flap) binding in reddish-brown leather. Stamped mandorla with pendants and cornerpieces filled with gold and red leather inserts. Blind-tooled and gold painted edging. Gold-stamped medallion and blind- and gold-tooled edging on flap. Pink paper pastedowns. Multi-colored endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Bayḍāwī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUmar -1286?—Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-taʼwīl
Kemalpaşazade 1468 or 1469-1534—Iṣlāḥ wa-al-īḍāḥ
Sakkākī, Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr 1160-—Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm
Marghīnānī, ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr -1196 or 1197—Hidāyah
Burhān al-Sharīʻah, Maḥmūd ibn ʻUbayd Allāh -1274 or 1275—Wiqāyat al-riwāyah
Maḥbūbī, ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd -1346 or 1347—Sharḥ al-Wiqāyah
Qurʼan Sūrat al-Baqarah—Commentaries—Early works to 1800
Qurʼan Juzʼ al-Mulk—Commentaries—Early works to 1800
Qurʼan Sūrat al-Mulk—Commentaries—Early works to 1800
Arabic language—Rhetoric—Early works to 1800
Future life—Islam—Early works to 1800
Hanafites—Early works to 1800
Islam—Customs and practices—Early works to 1800
Islam—Early works to 1800
Islam and politics—Early works to 1800
Islamic ethics—Early works to 1800
Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800
Marriage (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800
Political science—Early works to 1800
Resurrection (Islam)—Early works to 1800
Soul—Islam—Early works to 1800
Theological anthropology—Islam—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
magic squares
Blind tooled bindings
Gold tooled bindings
Headbands
Autographs
Stamps
Colored papers
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
468

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/99bed0db-8222-4e61-854e-3c735e25d6d3/manifest