Item Summary

A treatise on religious aspects of music, including the practice of samāʻ.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب فرح الاسماع برخص السماع/ ل... سيدنا محمد التونسي المالكي الشاذلي الوفائي ... .
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Faraḥ al-asmāʻ bi-rukhṣ al-samāʻ/ li-... Sayyidinā Muḥammad al-Tūnisī al-Mālikī al-Shādhilī al-Wafāʼī ... .
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1814Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/1j92gb09f
Publisher
[1648]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1648
Format
Manuscript
Extent
8 leaves : paper ; 210 x 155 (160 x 100) 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, 2938
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 152 (32a: no. 4)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 1a.
Copied on the 25th of Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1058 (1648) -- colophon (fol. 8a).
23 lines per page. Written in a casual medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper.
Incipit: الحمد لله الذي اباح وفسح مجال الغنا
Explicit: ذهب الخوف والخزن جميعة قال الله تعالى ألآ ان اوليآ الله لا خوف عليهم ولا هم يخزنون وحسبنا الله ...

Discovery Information

Subject
Music—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800
Sufism—Customs and practices—Early works to 1800
Sufism—Rituals—Early works to 1800
Sufi music—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
13

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/8aeb40a3-307d-4ed4-92a7-64c8b5e9b7a8/manifest