Item Summary

A treatise on principles of Islamic faith, completed, according to the text, on a Friday in the month of Rajab, 1074 (1664).

Descriptive Information

Title
المنهاج المحمدي والطريق الاحمدي.
Transliterated Title
al-Minhāj al-Muḥammadī wa-al-ṭarīq al-Aḥmadī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1075H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcfq978648t
Publisher
[16--?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1600-1699
Format
Manuscript
Extent
261 leaves : paper ; 196 x 131 (150 x 75) mm. bound to 205 x 140 mm.
Source Acquisition
Purchase ; Brill; 1900.
References
Brockelmann, C. GAL, S N II (662)
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1928
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from introduction (fol. facing fol. 1a).
Ff. 3b-5a have table of contents. Some marginal annonations throughout. Inserts.
Collation: Paper ; fol. vii + 254 ; catchwords ; folation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 27 lines per page.
Description: Written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Glazed European paper.
Incipit: والحمد لله الذي ميز عصابة ... وبعد فلما كان بيان مذهب اهل السنة والجماعة من اهم الامور
Explicit: وقد وقع الفراغ من جمعه وتدوينه ... سنة اربع وسبعين والف من الهجرة النبوية عليه افضل التحية الحمد لله ثم الحمد لله
Binding Note
Type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and brown, olive and red glazed marbled paper over pasteboard. Pastedowns in yellow/light olive paper. Label on upper cover: "50".

Discovery Information

Subject
Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Islam—Customs and practices—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
538

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/32165b27-eca7-4cd9-b052-771510758c1c/manifest