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رسالة في فضائل اهل البيت / لعلي بن ابراهيم بن الامير.
Risālah fī faḍāʼil ahl al-bayt / li-ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Amīr.
1805
A brief essay on the excellences and special privileges of the family of the Prophet followed by several responses.
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- Related Name
- مهدي، ابراهيم بن محمد، active 19th century
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 245H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
A brief essay on the excellences and special privileges of the family of the Prophet followed by several responses.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- رسالة في فضائل اهل البيت / لعلي بن ابراهيم بن الامير.
- Transliterated Title
- Risālah fī faḍāʼil ahl al-bayt / li-ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Amīr.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 245H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcrr1727402
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1805
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 8 leaves : paper ; 214 x 158 (190 x 120) mm. bound to 213 x 158 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 936.
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 721.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Contents
- 1. fol. 1a-4b: Hādhihi al-Risāsalah Jamāl al-Āl al-Muṭahhar ibn ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Amīr.
- 2. fol. 5a-5b: Jawāb Jamāl al-Āl wa-Badr Samā al-Kamāl ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir.
- 3. fol. 5b-5b: Jawāb Ismāʻīl ibn Aḥmad al-Kibsī.
- 4. fol. 6a-8b: Jawāb al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥyī a[l-D]īn Ibrāhīm al-Daylamī.
- Notes
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 8 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Description: Partially pointed text ; watermarks (shield? topped with fleur-de-lis) ; MS in good condition.
- Layout: 18-24 lines per page.
- Ms. codex.
- Origin: [Risālah] According to colophon copied Sunday 16 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1219 by Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Mahdī (fol. 4b).
- Title from front pastedown.
- Colophon: [الرسالة] حرر يوم الاحد سادس عشر شهر ذ[ي]الحجة عام سنة 1219 کتبه افقر العباد الى ربه واحوجهم اليه [الى] علمه ابراهيم ابن محمد بن علي بن الحسين المهدي وفقه الله
- Incipit: [الرسالة] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. قال رجل في بعض المواقف
- Binding Note
- Later? quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and blue paper with block-stamped design.
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- File Count
- 24
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/47bfd115-6075-4bff-8509-80355fd98212/manifest