Item Summary

Ibn al-ʻArabī's metaphysical treatise in 27 chapters composed in 1226 in Damascus, accompanied by a short (incomplete?) glossary of Sufi terms. The latter is (loosely) arranged in alphabetical order, starts with al-alif, al-ittiḥād, aḥadīyat al-jamʻ etc., the terms covered correspond to the terms contained in Iṣṭilāḥāt al-Sūfīyah by ʻAbd al-Razzāq al-Qāshānī, but there are much fewer of them and although some of the wording of the explanations is similar to that used by Qāshānī, the text nevertheless differs.

Descriptive Information

Title
[فصوص الحكم]
Transliterated Title
[Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1190Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/2j62s747r
Publisher
[between 15--? and 16--?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1500-1699
Format
Manuscript
Extent
99, i leaves : paper ; 185 x 137 (125 x 90) mm. bound to 185 x 145 mm.
Provenance
Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 2702.
Mach, R. Yahuda, 1898.
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 572 (11)
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 792 (12)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. Fol. 1b-15b: [Iṣṭilāḥāt al-Sūfīyah]
2. Fol. 17b-97a: [Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam]
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by the cataloger.
15 lines per page. Main text written in small naskh in black ink with use of red. The text of the glossary written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Although the style of writing differs, the two texts seem to be contemporary and written continuously in same ink and possibly same hand. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Foliation in Western numerals in pencil.
Ms. additions: Numerous short inscriptions on fol. 1a, one of them dated 1163 (1750). Three short inscriptions and one ownership seal on fol. 99b. Ff. 16a-17a contain a text with the heading 'Faṣṣ ḥikmah fardīyah fī kalimah Muḥammadīyah' commenting on the final chapter of Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam. Ff. 97-98 contain a short commentary relating to Ibn al-ʻArabī's Mawāqiʻ al-nujūm. Extensive marginal annotations to the main text in a later hand.
Binding Note
Half leather with envelope flap (upper cover loose). Spine, fore-edge flap and the two fore-edge corners of upper cover in light brown leather. Covers and envelope flap in dark blue paper with flower pattern painted in yellow and black, over pasteboard. Lining to fore-edge flap in decorated paper painted in red, yellow and brown flower pattern. Pastedowns and lining to envelope flap in light cream paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic philosophy—Early works to 1800
Sufism—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Metaphysics—Early works to 1800
God (Islam)—Wisdom—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
130

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/575b0eb7-c41d-4adf-adc1-1b6aeeaef990/manifest