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Title
العقد الجوهري في فرق الكسب بين الماتريدي والشعري ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
al-ʻIqd al-jawharī fī farq al-kasb bayna al-Māturīdī wa-al-Ashʻarī ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2886Y
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc4f16cd24d
Publisher
[1800-1899]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1800-1899
Format
Manuscript
Extent
78 leaves : paper ; 213 x 158 (148-158 x 100-110) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts (Yahuda Section), 2092, 2524, 4165.
Brockelmann, GAL, S II, 909 (39).
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 2a: [Table of contents]
2. fol. 3a-4b: [Miscellany]. Poetry, family tree of ʻAbd al-Manāf, letters.
3. fol. 5a-11a: [Correspondence of Khālid al-Naqshbandī with some of his disciples]. In Turkish, Persian and Arabic. followed by a poem in Turkish and Persian dated 1823 (fol. 11b-12a), prescriptions (fol. 12a), poem in praise of Shaykh Khālid (fol. 12b-13a) and a passage from Ḥasan Shurunbulālī's work ʻImād al-fattāḥ fī sharḥ nūr al-iḍāḥ (fol. 13a).
4. fol. 11b-13a: [Poetry]
5. fol. 13b-20a: al-ʻIqd al-jawharī fī farq al-kasb bayna al-Māturīdī wa-al-Ashʻarī.
6. fol. 20b-21b: Maṭlab al-mutaʻallaq li-ṭarīqah. Contains short notes and passages on Sufism.
7. fol. 22b-25b: Takhmīs al-Muḍarīyah.
8. fol. 26a-28a: [Miscellany]. Verse prayer on the Divine names, poem in praise of the Prophet Muḥammad, and other poems and statements in Arabic and Turkish.
9. fol. 28b: [Naʻt-i Şerīf]. Poems in praise of the Prophet Muḥammad by Muḥammad Derviş Efendi. Dedicated to Tufangcizade.
10. fol. 29a-29b: [al-Maktūbah al-manẓūmah] / Muḥammd Saʻīd Suwaydī. A letter in verse addressed to Khālid Naqshbandī followed by a poem on the date of Khālid's journey to Damascus.
11. fol. 29b-30a: [Maktūb manẓūm] / [Ömer Rasim Efendi]
12. fol. 30a-31a: [Poems] One in Turkish and one in Arabic.
13. fol. 34a-36b: [Maktūb ilá al-ikhwān al-mukhliṣīn] / [Khālid Naqshbandī]
14. fol. 36b-37b: [Prayer in Arabic]
15. fol. 38a-38b: [Inscriptions]
16. fol. 39a-43b: Risālah fī al-dukhān.
17. fol. 44a-44b: [Maktūb ʻalá radd al-tafkīr Shaykh al-ṭarīq al-Naqshbandī]. The author, Muḥammad Rafīʻ ibn Ḥusayn was the judge of Baghdad and issued this declaration in defence of Naqshbandī who had been condemned as a non-believer.
18. fol. 44b-48a: [Radd ʻalá al-risālah al-mulaffqah min abāṭīl mukhtalifah]
19. fol. 48b-78a: [Taqāriz ʻulamāʼ al-Baghdād wa-al-Shām ʻalá risālat al-Suwaydī]. Contains letters supporting al-Suwaydī's letter of defense for Shaykh Khālid who was accused of heresy. Letters are from Muḥammad Asʻad al-Ḥaydarī, Aḥmad al-Khātīb, Amīn al-Radawī, Muḥammad Amīn Afandīʹzādah, and 20 other ʻulamāʼ of Damascus and Baghdad.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Layout: 27 lines per page.
Origin: [Risālah fī al-dukhān] Copied 1246.
Incipit: [العقد الجوهري] الحمد لله فاطر السموات والارض وخالق العباد -- [تخميس المضرية] لمّا غدوت اداعى النجم فى سهر -- [رسالة في الدخان] الحمد لله الذى اباح لنا ما خلق فى الارض

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Subject
Naqshabandī, Khālid ibn Aḥmad 1776-1827
Free will and determinism—Religious aspects—Islam
Asharites
Māturīdīyah
Islam—Prayers and devotions—Early works to 1800
Muḥammad Prophet -632—Poetry
Prayer—Islam—Early works to 1800
Smoking (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
168

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ea895bc6-553e-4c47-860d-1fe2b536edad/manifest