Item Summary

The fourth volume of Iḥyāʼ ʻulūm al-dīn. This section contains Books IV - IX of Rubʻ al-muhlikāt (the destructive matters in life) and corresponds to vol. Ill, pp. 92-325 of the copy printed in Cairo, 1334/1915.

Descriptive Information

Title
الجزء الرابع من احيا علوم الدين / تأليف ابو حامد الغزالي.
Transliterated Title
al-Juzʼ al-rābiʻ min Iḥyā ʻulūm al-dīn / taʼlīf Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazzālī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1051H(ii)
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcdr26z908c
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1321
Extent
204 leaves : paper ; 256 x 181 (167 x 130) mm bound to 254 x 185 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: Aḥmad ibn ʻUbayd al-ʻAṭṭār dated [1]123, Nūr al-Dīn ibn Qāsim ?, Dimashq, Muḥammad ibn Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Mālikī al-Shāfiʻī dated 1048 (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1478.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and glosses. Inscriptions on title page and following the colophon (fol. 1a and 204b).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 204 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; some vowel signs ; MS in good condition, mended.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed first tenth of Ṣafar 721 (fol. 204b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم صلي الله علي سيدنا محمد واله وسلم كتاب افآق اللسان وهو الرابع من ربع المهلكات من احنا علوم الدين ...
Colophon: واقع الفراغ منه في العشر الاول من صفر سنة احدى وعشرين وسبعمايه ويتلوه المجلد الخامس كتاب الغرور وهو الكتاب العاشر من ربع المهلكات من كتب احيا علوم الدين وبالله المستعان
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in yellowish-brown leather. Red-stamped mandorla with gold-painted border and gold-tooled decorative edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Gold-tooled design on flap fore-edge. Red marbled paper pastedowns.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
422

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/30883298-3caa-4fc6-b99a-345eba4ba3ec/manifest