Item Summary

Treatise on politics and government.

Descriptive Information

Title
سياسة الشرعية في اصلاح الراعي والرعية
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Siyāsah al-sharʻīyah fī ṣalāḥ al-rāʻī wa-al-raʻīyah / taʼlīf al-Shaykh al-islām qudāt al-musli)mīn baghyat al-mujtahidīn wa-qāmiʻ al-muttaḥidīn wa-muḥill li-mushkilāt al-Dīn shaykh al-Islām taqī al-Dīn ibn Taymīyah aʻāda Allāh min barakātihi ʻalaynā wa ʻalá al-muslimīn ajmaʻīn innahu arḥam al-rāḥimīn.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1418Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/8910jx198
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1305-1349
Extent
93 leaves: paper ; 165 x 130 (130 x 90) mm.
Provenance
Several reading and ownership statements on the title page (fol. 1a) and on the margins of the colophon (fol. 92b in the modern foliation). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 4736
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page. Portion of the title is written by a later hand on a repair. Another eulogy reading "raḍiya Allāh ʻanhu wa-naffaʻanā Allāh bi-ʻulūmihi fī al-Dārayn..." appears on a second repair after the one mentioned here in the title.
17 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink. The text has been collated (see collation statement signed Abū Bakr ibn Qāsim on fol. 92b). Foliation using Arabic numerals. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first fol.).
Copied by Yūsuf ibn Rasūl ibn Amīr ʻAlī al-Turkmānī in the first decade of Muḥarram 750? (or 705?) (colophon, fol. 92b in the modern foliation).
Incipit: قال شيخنا وقدوتنا الامام العالم العمل الصدر الكامل ... احمد بت العلامة شهاب الدين ... بن تيمية الحرانى امتع الله المسلمين بطول حياته الحمد لله الذي ارسل رسله بالبينات ... اما بعد فهذه [1أ] رسالة مختصرة فيها جوامع (من السياس)ة الالهية والايات النبوية لا يستغنى عنها (الراعى والر)عية
Explicit: الا ليعبدون ما اريد منهم من رزق وما اريد ان يطعمون ان الله هو الرزاق ذو القوة المتين فنسال الله العظيم ان يوفقنا وساير اخواننا وجميع المسلمين [92ب] لما يحبه لنا ويرضاه من القول والعمل فانه لا حول ولا قوة الا به والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على نبيه محمد واله وسلم تسليما
Binding Note
Unbound.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
100

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/6460e121-7878-4538-aa9b-4b5115dd1e66/manifest