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رسالة في بيان طريق السادة السعدية.
Risālah fī bayān ṭarīq al-sādah al-Saʻdīyah.
1809
A treatise on the Saʻdīyah order (a branch of the Rifāʻīyah).
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Item Summary
A treatise on the Saʻdīyah order (a branch of the Rifāʻīyah).
Descriptive Information
- Title
- رسالة في بيان طريق السادة السعدية.
- Transliterated Title
- Risālah fī bayān ṭarīq al-sādah al-Saʻdīyah.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 327L
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcxp68kv544
- Publisher
- [1809]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1809
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- i, 112 leaves : paper ; 195 x 144 (138 x 80) mm bound to 195 x 150 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1601.
- Brockelmann, C. GAL, S N II, 1008 (ref. from Hitti).
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from the beginning of text on fol. 2a.
- The main text ends on fol. 109b and is followed on fol. 110a-111b by a Saʻdīyah prayer and dhikr, in the same hand as the main text.
- Description: 17-23 lines per page. Written in a medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Thick cream glazed paper with "three crescents" watermark.
- Origin: Copied by Aḥmad Yūsuf al-Zuhayrī al-Saʻdī and completed on the 14th of Ṣafar 1224 (1809) -- colophon (fol. 109b).
- Incipit:الحمد لله فالق اطوار البشر وفاتق انواع ازهار اكمام الثمر ... وبعد فهذه رسالة في بيان طريق السادة السعديه تخبر عن اصل طريقهم ورد المنكر عليهم
- Explicit: ولاتك تشكك فيه تهلك وتندم ويا رب صل علي النبي محمد واصحابه والال جمعاً وسلم
- Binding Note
- Half leather with envelope flap. Covers and the envelope flap are in a decorative paper, cream with a flower pattern painted in green and grey. Brown leather on spine, fore edge flap and, decorated with blind fillets, around edges of covers. Pastedowns and lining to the envelope flap in yellow paper. Lining to the fore edge flap in brown leather.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 238
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f1261189-46dc-49fb-9711-f7a9601ccdd0/manifest