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الفتحات الصمدية في اجوبة الاسئلة الاحمدية / لابي الفتوح.
al-Futuḥāt al-ṣamadīyah fī ajwibat al-asʼilah al-Aḥmadīyah / li-Abī al-Futūḥ.
1700-1799
A treatise in ethics.
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Item Summary
A treatise in ethics.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- الفتحات الصمدية في اجوبة الاسئلة الاحمدية / لابي الفتوح.
- Transliterated Title
- al-Futuḥāt al-ṣamadīyah fī ajwibat al-asʼilah al-Aḥmadīyah / li-Abī al-Futūḥ.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 935H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcgx41mw38q
- Publisher
- [17--?]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1700-1799
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 116 leaves : paper ; 207 x 154 (160 x 88) mm bound to 208 x 156 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 926.
- Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII (1044).
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from fol. 1a.
- Short inscriptions on fol. 1a. The text ends on fol. 114a and is followed on fol. 114b-116a by 4 short texts of approval of the preceding text signed with following names: Khāmid al-ʻImādī, Asʻad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Qarshī al-ʻUthmānī, and Maḥmūd ibn Ibrāhīm al-Nakhkhāl [?] al-Ghazzī al-Shāfiʻī. They all appear to be in the same hand as the main text.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 116 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 19 lines per page.
- Description: Written in a medium small script ; rubricated.
- Incipit: الحمد لله الذى وفق من عبيده من اراد لطلب سلوك سبيل الهدى والرشاد ... اما بعد فقد رفع الى بعض الاخوان ...
- Explicit: واصرفنى عنه واقدر لي الخير حيث كان ثم رضنى به قال و يسمى حاجته والله بكل شئ عليم
- Binding Note
- Later type quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and brown marbled paper over pasteboard.
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Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 240
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- Collection
- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- Holding location
- {@id=https://bibdata.princeton.edu/locations/delivery_locations/13}
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/d08b1c00-0ced-46ec-b5d8-0da039c6582e/manifest