Item Summary

Collection of Shiʻite texts.

Descriptive Information

Title
[رسالة الاعتقادات] ... [الخ].
Transliterated Title
[Risālat al-iʻtiqādāt] ... [etc.].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 151
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/j098zd72m
Publisher
[1717 or 1718]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1717-1718
Format
Manuscript
Extent
152 leaves : paper ; 208 x 137 (150-160 x 90) mm bound to 208 x 142 mm
Provenance
On leaf 19a, note dated Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1155 H [February 1743].
References
Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 125, 382, 1162, 1172, 1379.
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 546 (no. 3); SII, 578 (3: no. 3); SII, 597 (no. 27)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. leaves 1b-4b: [Risālat al-iʻtiqādāt] / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī. Short treatise on Shiʻite doctrine.
2. leaves 4b-8b: Risālah fī taḥqīq al-qiblah / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī. Treatise on determining the direction of the qiblah.
3. leaves 9b-13b: Faṣl dar z̲ikr-i ṣūrat. Extract on geometry from an unidentified mathematics text, with diagrams in the margins.
4. leaves 13b-18b: [Risālah fī taḥrīm dhabāʼiḥ ahl al-kitāb] / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī. Treatise discussing the prohibition on the meat of the Ahl al-Kitāb.
5. leaves 19b-65a: Bidāyat al-hidāyah / Ḥurr al-ʻĀmilī. Treatise on religious duties and prohibitions.
6. leaves 65b-73b: [al-Ṣaḥāʼif al-arbaʻūn al-ilāhīyah]. Forty ḥadīth qudsī, supposedly from the Tawrāh according to the introduction; text breaks off in the middle of the 35th ḥadīth.
7. leaves 74a-152a: [al-Fuṣūl al-muhimmah fī uṣūl al-aʼimmah] / Ḥurr al-ʻĀmilī. Hadiths on legal topics attributed to the Shiʻite imams, particularly Jaʻfar al-Ṣādiq. Missing a few leaves at the beginning (abwāb al-wuḍūʼ begin on leaf 74b). Followed by prayers in Arabic on leaves 151b-152a.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from text 1.
Physical description: 17-18 lines per page; written in medium naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Text 3 in nastaʻliq with elements of shikastah. Rubrication and catchwords. Lower corners and outer edge moldered; marginal damp-staining.
Origin: Text 4, 1130 H [1717 or 1718] (leaf 18b). Text 5, the second third of Jumādá I 1130 H [April 1718], by Ibn Ḥāfiẓ ʻAbd al-Laṭīf Muḥammad ʻAlī al-Rāzī (leaf 65a). Text 7, Ṣafar (leaf 151a). Remaining texts likely completed by the same scribe around the same time.
Incipit: [رسالة الاعتقادات] الحمد لله على آلائه ... وبعد نحن معاشر الشيعة الاثنى عشرية انما اخذنا اصولنا الدينية وفروعنا الملية -- [رسالة في تحقيق القبلة] اما بعد الحمد و الصلوة فىقول ... ان تحقىق حقىقة جهة القبلة -- [فصل در ذکر صورت] فصل در ذکر صورت گر بر سبىل اجمال صور متصور در ضرب -- [رسالة في تحريم] الحمد لله على جزىل افضاله -- [بداية الهداية] الحمد لله ... وبعد فيقول ... قد التمس منى جماعة من الاخوان -- [الصحائف الاربعون الالهية] عجبت لمن اىقن بالموت
Binding Note
Limp black leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants and blind-tooled fillets. Spine repaired with cloth.

Discovery Information

Subject
Food—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800
Geometry—Early works to 1800
Hadith—Texts—Early works to 1800
Hadith (Shiites)—Texts—Early works to 1800
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Qiblah—Early works to 1800
Shīʻah—Early works to 1800
Shīʻah—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton
diagrams
Blind tooled bindings

Physical Characteristics

File Count
159

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/7b5bd3a2-3859-45fc-8811-87bb49d5530c/manifest