Item Summary

Careful copy of a treatise on ethics (ʻilm al-akhlāq), based on Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (see fol. 4, l. 5), comprising an introduction, three maqālāt, and a khātimah (see fol. 5a, l. 8), discussing the various kinds of vice and the way to avoid them, together with a discussion of the various virtues to be attained. Name of author supplied according to GAL (not mentioned in Kashf al-ẓunūn).

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب الاخلاق المسمى بتزكية الارواح عن موانع الافلاح / للشيخ الامام العالم الفاضل ابي الغنائم عبد الرزاق السجستاني
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-akhlāq al-musammá bi-Tazkiyat al-arwāḥ ʻan mawāniʻ al-aflāḥ / lil-Shaykh al-imām al-ʻālim al-fāḍil Abī al-Ghanāʾim ʻAbd al-razzāq al-Sijistānī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 181B
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/2v23vt44p
Publisher
Irbil, [1345 or 1346]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1345
Format
Manuscript
Extent
i, 113, i leaves : paper ; 145 x 110 (105 x 75) mm. bound to 145 x 115 mm.
Provenance
Several ownership statements on fol. 2a, in the name of Abū Bakr ibn Rustam al-Shirwānī (repeated); of Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Aḥmad al-Abarqūhī, dated Damascus, Jumādá al---? -68 (see al-Dawʾ al-lāmiʻ, vol. 7, p. 132, no. 316) ; of Muḥammad al-Ḥbātī , dated Jumādá II 48 ; of Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Shahrazūrī ; of ʻAbd al-Salām Ibn al-marḥūm al-shaykh ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Ibn al-marḥūm al-shaykh Muṣṭafá Ibn al-marḥūm al-shaykh Maḥmūd al-Shaṭṭī al-Ḥanbalī al-Qādirī al-Dimashqī, dated 1280 H. [1863 or 4] ; impression of a large oval stamp in the name of Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī Ibn al-ʻAṭṭār , "khādim al-fiqh wa-al-āthār", dated 1200 H. Several ownership statements on fol. 1a: one in the name of Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd al-Nawawī ; one partially erased in the name of Muḥammad Ṣādiq ---?, dated 126 8 H. Acquired by Robert Garrett from the books of Murād Bey al-Bārūdī, Beirut, 1925.
Brown paper over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Blind stamped central mandorla and outer border consisting of fillets.
Several ownership statements on fol. 2a, in the name of Abū Bakr ibn Rustam al-Shirwānī(?) (repeated); of Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Aḥmad al-Abarqūhī, dated Damascus, Jumādá al---? -68 (see al-Dawʾ al-lāmiʻ, vol. 7, p. 132, no. 316) ; of Muḥammad al-Ḥbātī(?), dated Jumādá II 48 ; of Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Shahrazūrī ; of ʻAbd al-Salām Ibn al-marḥūm al-shaykh ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Ibn al-marḥūm al-shaykh Muṣṭafá Ibn al-marḥūm al-shaykh Maḥmūd al-Shaṭṭī al-Ḥanbalī al-Qādirī al-Dimashqī, dated 1280 H. [1863 or 4] ; impression of a large oval stamp in the name of Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī Ibn al-ʻAṭṭār(?), "khādim al-fiqh wa-al-āthār", dated 1200 H. Several ownership statements on fol. 1a: one in the name of Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd al-Nawawī ; one partially erased in the name of Muḥammad Ṣādiq ---?, dated 126(?)8 H. Acquired by Robert Garrett from the books of Murād Bey al-Bārūdī, Beirut, 1925.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1936
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 281/17 ; SN II, 281/17
Kâtip Çelebi. Kashf al-ẓunūn (ed. Fluegel), vol. II, p. 286
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 2a.
Physical description: 13 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink (faded to brown), with use of red for headings, re-inking, and text-stops. Some words are re-written by a later hand in black ink. Diagram on fol. 77a. Soft cream paper, hardly translucid, with pulp visible ; laid lines visible on some leaves. Fol. 1 and 113 are later additions. Occasional marginal annotations by a later hand. The text has been collated. Inscriptions on fol. 112b-113b. Wear, some leaves hardly legible.
Origin: According to colophon, copied for himself by Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd al-Qāhir ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Shahrazūrī in Irbil, 746 H. (fol. 112a). Collation statement in the name of ʻAbd al-Salām Ibn Shaṭṭī ... al-Ḥanbalī al-Qādirī, in the Jāmiʻ al-Umawī on fol. 113b.
Incipit: الهم لك الحمد(؟) على ---؟ من ذاتك ومن كل من خصصت بالتبيين لانك انت الملك الحق المبين الباعث لنا منك اليك والمعين ... [3ب] وبعد فاني طالما تشوقت الى ارتقاء مدارج الملكوت واعتلا معارج الجبروت
Explicit: ويقرآ سبحانه بلسان ديموميته وينشى عن سلطان [---] ان قيموميته كل من عليها فان ويبقى وجهك [---] الجلالة والاكرام والحمد لله رب العالمين

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Subject
Islamic ethics—History—14th century—Sources
Islamic philosophy—Ethics—History—14th century—Sources
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

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File Count
234

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Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
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