Item Summary

A collection containing short biographies of al-Suyūṭī and al-Sulamī, a work on the articles of faith, and selections from a veterinary work.

Descriptive Information

Title
عقيدة اهل السنة من احيا علوم الدين ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
ʻAqīdat ahl al-sunnah min Iḥyā ʻulūm al-dīn ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1165H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dch702qk125
Publisher
[18th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1799
Format
Manuscript
Extent
40 leaves : paper ; 163 x 112 (120 x 70) mm bound to 173 x 119 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 2083.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a-5a: ʻAqīdat ahl al-sunnah min Iḥyā ʻulūm al-dīn / Abī Ḥāmid al-Ghazzālī. A summary of the articles of faith, derived from Iḥyāʼ ʻulūm al-dīn.
2. fol. 5b-13a: Nubdhah yasīrah min manāqib al-Imām al-Suyūṭī. A short life of al-Suyūṭī.
3. fol. 13b-36a: Manāqib al-Shaykh ʻIzz al-Dīn al-Sulamī. A short life of al-Sulamī.
4. fol. 36b-40a: Fawāyid jalīlah fī maʻrifat al-dawābb allatī lā taṣluḥu lil-qany wa-lā lil-jihād wa-ʻādātiha. A selection from Kitāb fī ʻilm al-furūsīyah, a veterinary work by Baktūt who was the commander of the armies of the Mamlūk Sultan al-Ẓāhir Rukn al-Dīn Baybars.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page of first work (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes. Fawāʼid (fol. 1a). Extract from al-Ṣafī al-Ḥillī on types of doctors (fol. 40b).
Collation: Paper; fol. i (later paper) + 40 + i (later paper) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Occasional use of red ink ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in fair condition.
Origin: Probably from XVIIIth century. Apparently all written in the same hand.
Incipit: [عقيدة اهل السنة] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله المبدي المفيد ال؟ لما يريد ذي ... -- [نبذة يسيرة] له من المولفات اربعته وستون ... -- [مناقب] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلي الله علي سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم مناقب الشيخ عز الدين بن عبد السلام ... -- [فوايد جليلة] فوايد جليلة في معرفة الدواب التي لا تصلح للعني ...
Binding Note
Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown material and brown-spotted paper. Brown paper pastedowns and flyleaves.

Discovery Information

Subject
Suyūṭī 1445-1505
Sulamī, ʻIzz al-Dīn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn ʻAbd al-Salām approximately 1182-1262
Horsemanship—Early works to 1800
Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Muslim scholars—Biography—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
92

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/cebe352d-682a-408c-8710-368cef3751f4/manifest