Item Summary

Treatise against participating in celebrations of Jewish and Christian festivals.

Descriptive Information

Title
اقتضاء الصراط المستقيم في مخالفة اهل الجحيم / للعلامة شيخ الاسلام ابن تيمية
Transliterated Title
Iqtiḍāʼ al-ṣirāṭ al-mustaqīm fī mukhālafat ahl al-jaḥīm / lil-ʻAllāmah Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymīyah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3642Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcth83md15m
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1500-1700
Extent
144 leaves: paper ; 277 x 188 (210 x 145) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 2624
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 123/71
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes, including topics written by a later hand. Waqf statement refering to al-Shaykh Muṣṭafá ibn Saʻd al-Suyūṭī thumma al-Zaḥībānī(?); obliterated ownership statement (fol. 1a). Inserts.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 144 ; some catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 25 lines per page.
Description: Fol. 143-144 are later additions on "tre lune" watermarked paper.
Incipit: قال شيخنا وسيدنا الامام ... بن تيمية الحراني ادام الله بركته ... الحمد لله الذي اكمل لنا ديننا واتم علينا نعمته ... وبعد فاني كنت قد نهيت اما مبتدياً او مجيباً عن التشبه بالكفار
Explicit (fol. 143b): فهدي الله الذين امنوا لما اختلفوا فيه من الحق باذنه والله يهدى من يشاء الى صراط مستقيم
Binding Note
Only the cloth of the spine is extant.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
293

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ed253c94-ac09-4878-bb8b-3bbb8656c16e/manifest