Item Summary

A treatise on the tradition which expected a mabʻūth (one sent, a messenger) to appear at the head of every hundred years to renovate Islam.

Descriptive Information

Title
رسالة مجدد الدين في رأس كل مائة سنة.
Transliterated Title
Risālat mujaddid al-dīn fī raʼs kull miʼat sanah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1024H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dckw52jm74m
Publisher
[18th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1799
Format
Manuscript
Extent
15 leaves : paper ; 209 x 145 (140 x 85) mm bound to 205 x 145 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1536.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. [ii]a).
Marginal notes and glosses; marginal summaries. In his introduction to Naẓm al-ʻiqyān of al-Suyūṭī, Hitti discusses this idea of a mabʻūth and refers to a treatise of a similar nature by al-Suyūṭī.
Collation: Paper ; fol. ii (first is later paper) + 15 + i (later paper) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (anchor) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: Probably from the XVIIIth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ربنا ... الحمد لله الذي خص هذه الامة الشريفة بخصايض واصحة للمهتدين ... وبعد فاخرج ابو داود في سننه والحسن بن سفيان في مسنده ...
Colophon: وان عمرانما استند في وضع التاريخ عليه وقد بسطته في مؤلفي في التاريخ والله تعالى اعلم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) in red leather and green embossed paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Watermarks
Embossed papers

Physical Characteristics

File Count
44

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/db914334-3a45-4b6e-a81d-f39c399b1964/manifest