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Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب القرب في محبة العرب ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Qurab fī maḥabbat al-ʻArab ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1015H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcdb78tq69x
Publisher
1158 [1745]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1745
Format
Manuscript
Extent
22 leaves : paper ; 202 x 152 (152 x 97) mm bound to 202 x 157 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signature: Muḥammad Amīn, wāʼiẓ, dated [1]251 (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1519, 1530.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VI, p. 194, VII, pp. 262, 312/3.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 1391/2.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a-11a: Kitāb al-Qurab fī maḥabbat al-ʻArab / taʼlīf ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Abī Bakr ibn Ibrāhīm al-ʻIrāqī. A treatise on the love to the Prophet and the Arabs based on authentic as well as unauthentic traditions.
2 fol. 11b-19b: Kitāb Nafaḥāt al-qurb wa-al-ittiṣāl bi-ithbāt al-taṣarruf li-awliyāʼ Allāh wa-al-karāmah baʻda al-intiqāl / taʼlīf Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥanafī al-Ḥamawī. A treatise on the miracles done by saints during their lifetime and in the intermediate state between death and resurrection.
3. fol. 20a-22a: [Fawāʼid] Letter from al-Sirāj al-Warrāq, 695 [1296] to a friend of his, asking a favor to be done to another and a number of verses of poetry.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page of first work (fol. 1a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 22 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23 lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Rubricated ; all texts written in the same hand ; watermark (crown-star-crescent) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: [Kitāb al-Qurab] Copied by Muḥammad al-ʻAskarī ibn ʻAbd al-Salām al-Mālikī (fol. 11a) -- [Kitāb Nafaḥāt al-qurb ] Copied 11 Jumādá Awwal 1158 (fol. 19b)
Incipit: [القرب في محبة العرب] بسم الله ... الحمد لله الذي فضل العرب بارساله بينهم -- [نفحات القرب والاتصال] بسم الله ... الحمد لله الذي شرف اولياءَه بانواع
Colophon: [القرب في محبة العرب] رقمها بيده الفانية الفقير محمد العسکري ابن المرحوم الشيخ عبدالسلام المالکي غفرالله له ولوالديه ولمن دعا لهم بالمغفرة والمسلمين اجمعين والحمد لله رب العالمين م وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم -- [نفحات القرب والاتصال] وکان الفراغ من رقمها حادي عشر جمادى اول سنة 1158 والحمد لله رب العالمين م م م الحمد لله -- [فوائد] تم الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد خاتم النبيين والمرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين م م م
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and pink paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Arabs and Islam—Early works to 1800
Muslim saints—Early works to 1800
Miracles (Islam)—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Autographs
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
56

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/33a9096c-8150-43cd-a44d-9647530dcf2c/manifest