Item Summary

A short treatise on the dead, answering the seven following questions: 1. Do the dead know of the visits of the living to their graves? 2. Are they aware of their own state? 3. Do they hear the voice of the living? 4. Where is the abode of the souls? 5. Do the souls meet? 6. Do they recognize one another? 7. Are martyrs and infants judged? Followed by a short fāʼidah on the number of souls in heaven and hell (fol. 7a).

Descriptive Information

Title
اللمعة في اجوبة الاسئلة السبعة / للشيخ جلال الدين السيوطي.
Transliterated Title
al-Lumʻah fī ajwibat al-asʼilah al-sabʻah / lil-Shaykh Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 941H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc7d279557n
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1799
Format
Manuscript
Extent
7 leaves : paper ; 195 x 145 (135 x 90) mm bound to 203 x 154 mm.
Provenance
Seal impression (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1522.
Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 336.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 2672.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 7 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Sunday 15 Rajab '35 (fol. 6b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم مسئلة هل يعلم الاموات بزيارة الاحياء ...
Colophon: تمت الاجوبه في يوم الاحد خامس عشر رجب الفرد الحرام سنة خمس وثلاثين وصل الله على ... محمد ... وصلى وسلم
Binding Note
Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and dark brown speckled paper. Brown paper pastedowns and flyleaves.

Discovery Information

Subject
Death—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Stamps

Physical Characteristics

File Count
26

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/9d4f62b5-677f-4765-96c1-3b2e8cf1a9c4/manifest