Item Summary

Collection consisting of a text on Shiʻite fiqh and two commentaries upon it.

Descriptive Information

Title
[كتاب خليفة السلطان] ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
[Kitāb Khalīfat al-Sulṭān] ... [etc.].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 1356
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/sn00b136r
Publisher
[1816]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1816
Format
Manuscript
Extent
235 leaves : paper ; 207 x 152 (145-150 x 82-105) mm bound to 208 x 155 mm.
Provenance
Owners' stamps on leaves 1a, 1b.
References
Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 602, 601, 598.
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 450 (2: no. 1, commentary a); II, 426 (2 : no. 1); SII, 450
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. leaves 1b-38a: [Kitāb Khalīfat al-Sulṭān] / Ḥusayn ibn Rafīʻ Sulṭān al-ʻUlamāʼ. Commentary on Ibn al-Shahīd al-Thānī's Maʻālim al-dīn wa-malādhdh al-mujtahidīn, a treatise on uṣūl al-fiqh.
2. leaves 40b-135b: [Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Maʻālim al-dīn] / Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Shīrwānī. Commentary on Ibn al-Shahīd al-Thānī's Maʻālim al-dīn wa-malādhdh al-mujtahidīn, a treatise on uṣūl al-fiqh.
3. leaves 137b-235b: Maʻālim al-dīn wa-malādhdh al-mujtahidīn / Ibn al-Shahīd al-Thānī. A treatise on uṣūl al-fiqh.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from text 1.
Layout: 16-20 lines per page.
Description: Written in casual nastaʻliq with elements of shikastah and in general script in black on glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords. Mild staining.
Origin: Text 2, Rajab 1231 H [June 1816] (leaf 235b). Remaining texts likely completed around the same time.
Incipit: [كتاب خليفة السلطان] الحمد لله ... فيقول ... الحسين ابن المدعو بخليفة سلطان ... اني قد کتبت حين مطالعة کتاب معالم الدين -- [حاشية على معالم الدين] قوله الفقه في اللغة الفهم آه انما ابتدأ بتعرىف الفقه دون اصول الفقه کما هو المعروف فى کتب الاصول لان وضع الکتاب انما هو في الفقه -- [معالم الدين وملاذ المجتهدين] الحمد لله المتعالي في عز جلاله عن مطارح الافهام فلا يحيط بكنهه العارفون
Binding Note
Full brown leather with blind-stamped central design and fillets.

Discovery Information

Subject
Ibn al-Shahīd al-Thānī, al-Ḥasan 1551 or 1552-1602 or 1603—Maʻālim al-dīn wa-malādhdh al-mujtahidīn
Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800
Shīʻah—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Stamps

Physical Characteristics

File Count
244

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/27b00a51-e622-480b-919c-58cbd9904316/manifest