Item Summary

A treatise on jinn.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب كشف الحجاب والران عن وجه اسئلة الجان / تأليف القطب الغوث الرباني الشيخ عبد الوهاب الشعراني الشافعي الانصاري.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Kashf al-ḥijāb wa-al-rān ʻan wajh asʼilat al-jānn / taʼlīf al-quṭb al-ghawth al-rabbānī al-shaykh ʻAbd al-Wahhāb al-Shaʻrānī al-Shāfiʻī al-Anṣārī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1036H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcqj72pk751
Publisher
[16--?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1600
Extent
44 leaves : paper ; 204 x 146 (146 x 100) mm. bound to 205 x 148 mm.
Provenance
Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1591.
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II (442), SII (464).
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 1a.
Fol. 43b has an almost completely obliterated inscription which is either an ownership statement or the name of the scribe and possibly the date of the copy.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 44 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 25 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; written in a medium small script in black ink.
Incipit: بسملة وبه نستعين قل اعوذ برب الفلق من شر ما خلق ومن شر غاسق اذا وقب ومن شر المقاثات فى العقد ومن شر حاسد اذ احسد
Explicit: انتهت الاجوبة عن سوالكم ايها الاخوان من الجان فتاملوا فيها وامعنوا النظر وان توفقتم فى شى فراجعونى او راجعوا غيرى من العارفين وقد اجبتكم بحكم الوقت ... واستغفر الله من كل ذنب فعلته الاركان او خطر على الجنان ولا حول ولاقوة الا بالله العلى العظيم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم امين
Binding Note
Type II (with flap) cover in brown leather and marbled paper. Substantial damage to the binding with the ms loose inside the covers and outer surfaces worn.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
100

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/41c08646-ec6f-4782-be16-a9ddada3228f/manifest