Item Summary

A treatise denouncing the employment of Christians and Jews in important offices or dealing with them. Incomplete at beginning and end.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب منهج الصواب في تحقيق المريد والمراد.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Manhaj al-ṣawāb fī taḥqīq al-murīd wa-al-murād.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 933H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc3b591n08r
Publisher
[15th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1400-1499
Format
Manuscript
Extent
113 leaves : paper ; 187 x 136 (130 x 90) mm bound to 187 x 134 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1542
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 113 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 11 lines per page.
Description: Overlining in red ; fol. 93-94 tinted ; MS in good condition.
Origin: Probably from the XVth century.
Beginning: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم لرسوله التصديق بنبوته وبذل الطاعة له فيما امر ونهي ونصرته مواررته والحمايه من دونه ...
Ending: والذي احاذر بعد الموت ادهى وافضع
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. No pastedowns. Spine of different leather than covers.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islam—Relations—Judaism—Early works to 1800
Islam—Relations—Christianity—Early works to 1800
Judaism—Relations—Islam—Early works to 1800
Christianity and other religions—Islam—Early works to 1800
Dhimmis (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Colored papers

Physical Characteristics

File Count
234

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
Holding location
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IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/fb91eea9-567c-42a5-b3ba-bbec6b76c9d3/manifest