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كتاب الالفي / تأليف شيخ الاسلام ابي الفضل رضي الدين محمد بن شيخ الاسلام ابي البركات رضي الدين محمد بن الغزي العامري وسميتها بالجوهر الفريد في آداب الصوفي والمريد.
Kitāb al-alfī / taʼlīf Shaykh al-Islām Abī al-Faḍl Raḍī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Shaykh al-Islām Abī al-Barakāt Raḍī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn al-Ghazzī al-ʻĀmirī wa-samaytuhā bi-al-Jawhar al-farīd fī ādāb al-Ṣūfī wa-al-murīd.
1577
An instructional book in verse on the conduct of Sufi novices.
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Metadata
- Publisher
- [1577 or 1578]
- People
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- Author
- Raḍī al-Ghazzī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1457 or 1458-1528 or 1529
- رضي الغزي، محمد بن محمد، 1457 or 1458-1528 or 1529
- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1041H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
An instructional book in verse on the conduct of Sufi novices.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب الالفي / تأليف شيخ الاسلام ابي الفضل رضي الدين محمد بن شيخ الاسلام ابي البركات رضي الدين محمد بن الغزي العامري وسميتها بالجوهر الفريد في آداب الصوفي والمريد.
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb al-alfī / taʼlīf Shaykh al-Islām Abī al-Faḍl Raḍī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Shaykh al-Islām Abī al-Barakāt Raḍī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn al-Ghazzī al-ʻĀmirī wa-samaytuhā bi-al-Jawhar al-farīd fī ādāb al-Ṣūfī wa-al-murīd.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1041H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcns064j686
- Publisher
- [1577 or 1578]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1577
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 45 leaves : paper ; 178 x 132 (125 x 80) mm bound to 178 x 138 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1585.
- Brockelmann, C. GAL, II (367), SII (393).
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from fol. 2a.
- Two short inscriptions on fol. 1a. Added title at the head of fol. 2a: Alfīyah fī al-taṣawwuf lil-Ghazzī, and at the bottom of the same fol. in the same hand: "wa-maʻhā min Sharh ʻaqāʼid al-Nasafī" [?]. Two obliterated ownership statements on fol. 2a. Title "Alfīyah" written in black ink on upper cover.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 45 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 15 lines per page in two columns.
- Description: Rubricated ; written in an elegant medium small vocalized script ; glazed paper with visible laid lines and prominent pulp.
- Origin: Copied by Bāqī Samarqandī in 985 (1577-8) -- colophon (fol. 44b).
- Incipit: يقول راجي مدد لا ينقضي محمد هو الرضي بن الرضي
- Explicit: ومنه نسأل الصلات الدايمه موصولة منه بحسن الخاتمة وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل نعم المولي ونعم النصير ولا حول ولا قوة الا بالله العلي العظيم
- Binding Note
- Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and pink paper. Pastedowns and lining to the envelope flap in cream paper. Lining to the fore edge flap in pink paper.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 102
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/3601d7cb-9ef0-4cfa-b5de-7bd7cc41caef/manifest