Item Summary

Polemics against the Ibādīyah by a muftī of Tripoli, comprising an introduction, four chapters (bāb), and a conclusion. The end of the latter is missing.

Descriptive Information

Title
شكر المنة في نصر السنة
Transliterated Title
Shukr al-minnah fī naṣr al-sunnah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2829Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/3n203z15p
Publisher
[17--?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1799
Format
Manuscript
Extent
60 leaves : paper ; 205 x 147 (147 x 89) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 2632
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from beginning of text (fol. 2a, l. 13-14).
The name of the author does not appear in the ms., but the author frequently refers in the text to his teacher ʻAlī al-Ujhūrī (d. 1066/1656). According to Mach, following the Īḍāḥ al-maknūn, the author is Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Maknī al-Mālikī, muftī in Tripoli (d. ca. 1100/1688). See Ismāʻīl Pāshā al-Baghdādī. Īḍāḥ al-maknūn fī al-dhayl ʻalá Kashf al-ẓunūn (1945-47), vol. 2, col. 53.
22 lines per page. Written in Maghribī script, in black ink with use of red, yellow and purple ink. The text is framed by a double fillet in red ink. Glazed light cream paper with laid and chain lines visible.Fol. 30 is a later replacement. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals. Inscription in Arabic script on a modern label pasted on fol. 1a: "raqm 62 [or 63?]".
Collation: Paper, fol. 60 ; 1-6¹⁰ ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
Incipit: بسم ... صلى الله على ... الحمد لله الذى اعلا منار الدين واوضح منهاج الحق.. وبعد فان بعض الفقرا الصادقين
Explicit: \\ ومنها ترك الصلاة وتاخيرها عن وقتها ... فى نهار رمضان بغير غرر شرعى
Binding Note
Unbound.

Discovery Information

Subject
Polemics—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800
Ibadites—Early works to 1800
Sunnites—Apologetic works—Early works to 1800
Sunnites—Relations—Ibadites—Early works to 1800
Ibadites—Relations—Sunnites—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
120

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ce7f464b-987c-4630-9f32-823823fe574b/manifest