Item Summary

A treatise on the unlawfulness of visiting the dead.

Descriptive Information

Title
[تحريم زيارة القبور].
Transliterated Title
[Taḥrīm ziyārat al-qubūr].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 939H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcgx41mw396
Publisher
[17th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1600-1699
Format
Manuscript
Extent
46 leaves : paper ; 248 x 177 (175 x 116) mm bound to 248 x 177 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1540.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
A few marginal notes. Reading statement of Muḥammad ibn Riḍwān ibn Yūsuf ibn ʻAbd al-Ghanī dated 1139 H (fol. 1a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 46 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; overlining and other use of red ; MS in good condition.
Origin: Probably from XVIIth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله القوي القادر ... اعلم ان القول في ذلك على سبيل الاجمال
Colophon: وهذا آخر ما سنح للفقير في ذلك والله سبحانه اعلم جعله الله شافيا کافيا ... والحمد لله رب العالمين
Binding Note
Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and blue marbled paper.

Discovery Information

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

Physical Characteristics

File Count
102

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/a2fe843f-8e5b-4ff0-94b0-85c08ed42549/manifest