Item Summary

A collection of five short risālahs, most of them by Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān al-Arwādī (d. ca. 1858), in a variety of fields, including Islamic theology, ethics and Sufism. Text 3 is followed by four pages of Sufi litanies and prayers on ff. 15b-17a. Other pages between the texts are blank. All texts are in same hand, copied by Muṣṭafá ibn al-marḥūm al-Shaykh ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Shuhnī (colophon of text 5, fol. 41b). The texts are not dated but the date of the completion of text 4 is given as the 21st of Ṣafar 1268 (16th December 1851) and, at the same time, text 4 is followed (on fol. 42a) by an authographed ijāzah issued to Veysi-paşa by the author Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān al-Arwādī, dated 12th of Rajab 1268 (2nd of May 1852). This means that the ms. was copied in between those two dates, i.e. in 1852.

Descriptive Information

Title
[مجموعة رسائل]
Transliterated Title
[Majmūʻat rasāʼil]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 821Y
Identifier
ark:/88435/6t053n460
Publisher
[1852]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1852
Format
Manuscript
Extent
42 leaves : paper ; 212 x 132 (170 x 110) mm. bound to 212 x 134 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, 101
Mach, R. Yahuda, 1911
Mach, R. Yahuda, 2030
Mach, R. Yahuda, 2354
Mach, R. Yahuda, 2921
Brockelmann, C. GAL, S II, 774
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. Fol. 1a-4b: Nūr al-kawākib fī maʻrifat al-uṣūl wa-al-furūʻ wa-al-wājib.
2. Fol. 9a-12b: Nūr al-mishkāh fī ʻilm al-tawḥīd.
3. Fol. 12b-15a: al-Durr al-maslūk fī intihāʼ ghāyat al-sulūk.
4. Fol. 19a-26b: Sharḥ ḥizb al-baḥr.
5. Fol. 29a-41b: al-ʻIqd al-farīd fī ʻulū al-asānīd.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by the cataloger.
Written in elegant medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Text is within a double line frame in red ink, except on ff. 1b-2a which have a gold leaf frame outlined in black ink. Illuminated head piece on fol. 1b in gold leaf and green, blue, purple and brown watercolors. Titles of individual texts in red ink. Catchwords present throughout. Light cream modern paper.
Ms. additions: an authographed ijāzah, accompanied by a seal, issued to Veysi-paşa by the author Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān al-Arwādī, dated 12th of Rajab 1268 (2nd of May 1852) -- fol. 42 a.
Binding Note
Brown leather with envelope flap. Gold tooled panel design on covers and envelope flap, made with a gold roll, fillets and small rosetta stamps as corner pieces. Lining to envelope flap and endleaves in light green glossy paper embossed in a floral pattern. Lining to fore-edge flap in green fabric.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islam—Theology
Prayer—Islam
Islam—Rituals
Islam—Customs and practices
Sufism—Doctrines
Sufism—Rituals
Shādhilīyah—Rituals
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
96

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/378788c4-dbe1-416d-92a5-b2b85fffff0c/manifest