Item Summary

A treatise on freedom of religious belief in Islam, the composition of which was completed, according to the end of text (see explicit), on the 14th of Dhū al-Ḥijjah 715 (1316).

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب كشف دقايق الحقايق وايضاح الطرايق.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Kashf daqāyiq al-ḥaqāyiq wa-īḍāḥ al-ṭarāyiq.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1039H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dckd17d4147
Publisher
[1317]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1317
Format
Manuscript
Extent
108 leaves : paper ; 182 x 134 (140 x 105) mm. bound to 185 x 140 mm.
Provenance
Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1576.
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII (128).
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 1a.
Few short inscriptions on fol. 1a. Fol. 106a-108b have an added short text quoting the same author, which starts: "Qāla al-shaykh al-imām Taqī al-Dīn Abū Bakr al-Sāliḥī ...". Reading statement following the colophon on fol. 105a, written by the scribe to the effect that he had read the work to the author (finished the reading on the 26th of Shawwāl 717). This is followed by the statement of approval and the author's authograph. The same statement and the testimony by the author are also on fol. 1a, but most of it is lost due to paper damage.
Layout: 17 lines per page.
Description: Written in an informal medium sized script in black ink (faded to brown) with use of red. Dark cream glazed paper with prominent pulp. Some water damage to the paper throughout, but most substantial at the start of the ms.
Origin: Copied by ʻAlī ibn ʻUthmān ibn Muẓaffar ibn Khalīl ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ḥumaydī and completed at the start of Shawwāl 717 (1317) -- colophon (fol. 105a).
Incipit: رب يسر واعز وافتح بالحق واتن خير الفاتحين الجمد لله رب العالمين وصلواته على اشرف المرسلين محمد خاتم النبيين ... سال من يجب رد جوابه عن مسايل سمع تحقيق الحق
Explicit: وقد اكلت من هذا نصيباً أو شياً الله اعلم أي ذلك كان ثم استيقظ الحمد لله رب العالمين ... وسلم فرغ ليلة الجمعة الرابع والعشرين من دي الحجه سنة خمس عشرة وسبعماية
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) binding in brown leather over pasteboard. Blind tooled panel design in an arabesque pattern on covers. Evidence of light brown leather doublures. Substantial insect and water damage to the binding, repairs to the spine in different leather and very little of the lower cover remains.
Brown leather over pasteboard. Blind tooled panel design in an arabesque pattern on covers. Evidence of light brown leather doublures. Substantial insect and water damage to the binding, repairs to the spine in different leather and very little of the lower cover remains.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Sufism—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Faith (Islam)—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings

Physical Characteristics

File Count
220

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/438b2015-601c-4eb3-9a3a-2c7ae93c5945/manifest