Item Summary

Collection of two treatises on uṣūl al-dīn, and Shīʻī doctrine of imāmate, the later apparently incomplete at end.

Descriptive Information

Title
الاربعون في اصول الدين / فخر الدين الرازي. الاربعين في امامة الطاهرين / محمد طاهر بن محمد طاهر بن محمد حسين الشيرازي ثم النجفي.
Transliterated Title
al-Arbaʻūn fī uṣūl al-dīn / al-Arbaʻīn fī imāmat al-Ṭāhirīn / Muḥammad Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad Ḥusayn al-Shīrāzī thumma al-Najafī. Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī.
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2414Yq
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/9s161879k
Publisher
[1703 or 1704]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1703
Format
Manuscript
Extent
188 leaves: paper ; 293 x 204 (205 x 132) mm. bound to 293 x 210 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 2608, 3039
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 1a-6a: [Short excerpts from Ḥāshiyat Sharḥ al-Maṭāliʻ; Sharḥ al-Mawāqif [by Jurjānī]; a commentary on Āyat al-Nūr; a text on Wājib al-wujūd; Jamʻ al-Jawāmiʻ; Ibn Ḥajar; Bayḍāwī].
2. fol. 6b-7b: [Table of contents of Kitāb Arbaʻīn by Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī, followed by a short biographic note on the author].
3. fol. 8a: [Short excerpt on al-imkān al-khāṣṣ and al-imkān al-ʻāmm; inscriptions in Persian].
4. fol. 8b-136a: al-Arbaʻūn fī uṣūl al-dīn / Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī.
5. fol. 136b-182a: al-Arbaʻīn fī imāmat al-Ṭāhirīn / Muḥammad Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad Ḥusayn al-Shīrāzī thumma al-Najafī.
6. fol. 182b: [Blank].
7. fol. 183a-184a: [Short text on God's attributes apparently by Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr ibn Abī Bakr ibn Muḥammad, see end of text, fol. 184a).
8. fol. 185a-188b: [Excerpts from Itqān al-ʻulūm by Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī; Ibrāhīm al-Ghazzī reporting from Ṣawāʼiq al-muḥriqah by Ibn Ḥajar [al-Haythamī]; Bayḍawī; Sharḥ al-Shmasīyah; Sharḥ al-Mawāqif [by Jurjānī].
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title provided by cataloger.
27 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink. Fol. 183a-184a written in thick small naskh. Fol. 8-184 : European glazed paper. Fol. 1-7 and 185-188: fly-leaves on woven paper, with short excerpts written diagonally. Text 1 has been collated (see collation statement dated 17 Jumādá al-Thānī 1[1]16 [1704] on the margins of fol. 136a). Short excerpts and annotations on the margins. Long biographic note on Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī after the colophon of text 1 (fol. 136a, 11 lines). Between fol. 135 and 136: Text in Persian on a small piece of paper. Some leaves loose.
Copy of text 1 completed in 1115 by ʻAlī(?) ibn ʻAlī Akramghār(?) (colophon, fol. 136a).
Binding Note
Upper and lower covers made of brown leather over paper pasteboards (visible). Both covers are similarly blind-tooled with a central mandorla with a floral motif with two pendants on the vertical axis and an outer frame consisting of a running pattern and fillets. Rebacked.

Discovery Information

Subject
Shīʿah—Doctrines—17th century
Imamate—Early works to 1800
Imams (Shiites)—Early works to 1800
Islam—Doctrines—12th century
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
196

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/9b4eab8e-2eed-48c8-abbd-4afd0385c371/manifest