Item Summary

Two Sufi texts by Ibn al-ʻArabī.

Descriptive Information

Title
الامر المحكم المربوط فيما يلزم اهل طريق الله من الشروط ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
al-Amr al-muḥkam al-marbūṭ fīmā yalzamu ahl ṭarīq Allāh min al-shurūṭ ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1029H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc7m01bz307
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1600-1699
Extent
35 leaves : paper ; 197 x 130 (150 x 80) mm bound to 197 x 134 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1574.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, pp. 437/8; III, 371/2.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a-29a: al-Amr al-muḥkam al-marbūṭ fīmā yalzamu ahl ṭarīq Allāh min al-shurūṭ / taṣnīf Muḥyī al-Dīn Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-ʻArabī al-Ḥātimī al-Ṭāʼī al-Andalusī. A work on the rules which govern Ṣūfī teachers, shaykhs, students and novices.
2. fol. 29a-: Kitāb Risālat al-Anwār fīmā yumnaḥu ṣāḥib al-khalwah min al-asrār / lil-Shaykh al-Akbar Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn ʻArabī. A reply to an inquiry concerning drawing near to God, meditation and contemplation. While the beginning and the bulk of the work is al-Anwār, the colophon is that of ḥilyat al-abdāl wa-mā yaẓharu ʻanhā min al-maʻārif wa-al-aḥwāl, another work by the same author on the four pillars of ascetic life; silence, solitude, hunger and watching.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page of first work (fol. 1a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 35 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (anchor) ; MS in fair condition, stained with dampness and mended. Folio 35 defective.
Origin: Probably from the XVIIth century.
Incipit: [الامر المحكم] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله هدانا لهذا وما كنا لنهتدي -- [كتاب رسالة الانوار] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله واهب العقل ومبدعه وناصب النقل وشرعه
Colophon: [الامر المحكم] تمت بعون الله وحسن توفىقه والصلاة والسلام على سىدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم -- [كتاب رسالة الانوار] تمت حلىة الابدال وما ىظهر عنها من المعارف والاحوال. والحمد لله رب العالمىن وصلى الله على سىدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم دائما کثىرا
Binding Note
Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and blue-green paper.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
80

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/7bf91de1-7172-44a7-8156-b3815a3ae6b2/manifest