Descriptive Information

Title

شرح عقائد الطحاوي / تأليف الشيخ الامام العالم العلامة شجاع الدين هبة الله بن احمد بن معلا التركستاني الحنفي

Transliterated Title

Sharḥ ʻAqāʼid al-Ṭaḥāwī / taʼlīf al-Shaykh al-imām al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah Shujāʻ al-Dīn Hibat Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Muʻallā al-Turkustānī al-Ḥanafī.

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 369B

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/0r967379t

Publisher

[between 13--? and 1446]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1300-1446

Format

Manuscript

Extent

i, 92, i leaves: paper ; 190 x 123 (130 x 85) mm. bound to 175 x 130 mm.

Provenance

Ibrāhīm ibn Bahādur al-Ḥanafī (fol. 1a). Two ownership statements on fol. 1a, in the name of ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismāʻīl al-Ḥanafī, known as al-Kurdī (or: al-Karakī? see al-Ḍawʼ al-lāmiʻ, vol. 4, p. 124) and of Muḥammad ibn ismāʻīl al-Dasūqī al-Ḥanafī al-Shāmī, the latter dated 1 Rabīʻ al-Thānī 1072 (or 3?) [1661 or 2] (see also fol. 92b). Four reading statements and ownership statements on fol. 92b, in the name of Aqbay al-Īnālī al-Rāzaḥī(?), dated 24 Rajab 8--(?) ; of Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn ... Aqbay ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Īnālī, dated laylat al-Jumuʻah 4 Shawwāl 850 [Dec. 23, 1446] ; of al-Sayyid Muḥammad ibn al-Sayyid Ismāʻīl al-Dasūqī al-Ḥanafī al-Shāmī, dated Rajab 1074 [1664] ; of ʻAbd al-Jawwād al-Ḥanafī. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leiden, 1925, from the books of Mūrad Bey Bārūdī, Beirut.

Source Acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1543

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title from illuminated title page (fol. 1a). Could also be read "ʻaqīdah".

13 lines per page. Written in careful medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for headings. The text is vocalized. Thick dark cream paper with laid lines, some chain lines, and pulp visible. Catchword on verso of some leaves.

Illuminated title page (ʻunwān) in gold and blue, with some red (fol. 1a): The title-page consists of an upper panel with two red, blue, and gold medallions on the left margin, and a lower scalloped panel. The upper panel is divided in two parts each framed within a gold border outlined in black. The upper part has the title written in stylistic "Kufic" in gold on a blue ground with a gold and red arabesque of flowers and leaves. The lower part has the statement of responsibility written in black naskh in cloud cartouches outlined in black and left blank over a ground hatched in red. The scalloped panel is bordered in gold and black on white and has the patron's name in gold outlined in black in cloud cartouches left blank on a blue ground. The whole design is outlined in blue with radiating flecks.

Serious worm damage on the inner margin. Extremely fragile.

The manuscripts is not dated. Apparently copied 14th-15th cent.

Two spine labels (vertical) with inscriptions reading respectively: "Sharḥ ʻAqīdat al-Ṭaḥāwī li-Hibat Allāh al-Turkustānī" [in Arabic script] and "369" [in Arabic and western numerals].

Incipit: قال شيخنا ومولانا الشيخ الامام العالم العلامة شجاع الدين هبة [الله] بن احمد بن مُعَلّا التُرْكُستانى الحنفى رحمه الله تعالى الحمد لله الذى دلّت على وحدانيته بدايع صنعته ... وبعد فان بعض اخواننا سالنا ان نتكلم مما فتح الله علينا من خزاين نعمه ولطايف كرمه على العقيدة المنسوبة الى الامام ابى جعفر الطحاوى ... [2أ] ... فاقول وبالله التوفيق قال رضى الله عنه هذا ذكر بيان اعتقاد اهل السنة والجماعة فانما قال ذلك لقوله تعالى لنبيه ... قل هذه سبيلى

Explicit: وقال رسول الله ... لا تجتمع امّتى على ضلال وقال يد الله على الجماعة فمن شدّ شدّ فى النار نعوذ بالله من الخذلان والفرقة ونسال الله تعالى ان يتوفّانا على لزوم السنّة والجماعة بمنّه وكرمه

Binding Note

Modern library binding.

Discovery Information

Subject

Islam—Doctrines—13th century

Faith (Islam)—Early works to 1800

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Ṭaḥāwī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad 852?-933—ʻAqīdah—Commentaries—13th century

Illuminated manuscripts—Islamic Empire—14th century

Physical Characteristics

File Count

192

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/371e7110-b027-4a15-a2f4-d71ed13c32e7/manifest

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