Item Summary

A treatise on the love to the Prophet and the Arabs based on authentic as well an unauthentic traditions.

Descriptive Information

Title
رسالة القرب في محبة العرب / للشيخ عبد الرحيم بن ابي بكر بن ابراهيم العراقي.
Transliterated Title
Risālat al-Qurab fī maḥabbat al-ʻArab / lil-Shaykh ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Abī Bakr ibn Ibrāhīm al-ʻIrāqī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1016H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcms35tn292
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1799
Extent
11 leaves : paper ; 217 x 165 (174 x 100) mm bound to 225 x 172 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1520.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Fāʼidah on title page. It is stated in the colophon that the work was composed 791 [1389]. A prayer by al-Nawāwī (fol. 10b-11b).
Collation: Paper ; fol. i (later brown paper) + 11 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19 lines per page ; fol. 1b-9b frame-ruled in red.
Description: Rubricated ; overlining in red ; MS in good condition.
Origin: Probably from the XVIIIth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله ... الحمد لله الذى فضل العرب ببعثة نبيهم ... وبعد فقد اوجب الله عز وجل على الخلق تحب العرب وتصحهم ...
Ending: ... وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه اجمعين م
Binding Note
Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown fabric and brown-spotted paper.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
32

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e568dc90-fe54-4956-b250-c07ed26e5e72/manifest