Item Summary

Collection of two treatises on uṣūl al-dīn. The first is entitled Mukhtaṣar uṣūl al-dīn in the ms. and is identical with al-Masāʼil al-khamsūn fī uṣūl al-dīn. The second, Ithbāt al-wājib, is dedicated to Ḥasan Pāshā (see fol. 22a), and is identical with Risālah fī Mabdaʼ al-awwal wa-ṣifātih (Kash al-ẓunūn. Ed. Fluegel, III, 437). Both titles appear in the ms.

Descriptive Information

Title
مختصر اصول الدين لفخر واثبات الواجب للخلخالي
Transliterated Title
Mukhtaṣar uṣūl al-Dīn li-Fakhr wa-Ithbāt al-wājib lil-Khalkhālī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1271Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/1z40kw454
Publisher
[ between 16--? and 18--?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1600-1899
Format
Manuscript
Extent
78 leaves: paper ; 195 x 125 (132 x 63 and 142 x 74) mm. bound to 197 x 135 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 2415, 3040
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 668/20
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 2b-18b: Mukhtaṣar uṣūl al-dīn / Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī.
2. fol. 20b-76a: Ithbāt al-wājib [or: Risālah fī mabdaʼ al-awwal wa-ṣifatih] / Ḥusayn al-Khalkhālī.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from note on fol. 1a (see also fol. 2a). The second title is crossed out, with the mention "Risālah fī mabdaʼ al-awwal wa-ṣifātih lil-Khalkhālī" added by another hand.
Text 1 is written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red, 21 lines to the page, on glazed European paper with watermark, with marginal annotations by the same hand as the main text. Text 2 is written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red, with a frame made of gold, black and blue lines and an illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) in blue and gold (fol. 20b), 11 lines to the page, on glazed paper, with marginal annotations by the same hand as the main text. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "ʻAqāʼid 19". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "ḥāʼ 91".
Collation: Paper, fol. 78 ; 1¹⁶ 2⁴ 3-8⁸ 9⁸ (+2, fol. 77-78) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
Binding Note
Brown leather over pasteboards for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Gold-stamped central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis with an outer frame made of a gold running pattern and a single fillet on upper and lower covers. Similar outer frame on the envelope flap with a small stamp on its pointe.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
81

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ced17d69-a470-4806-bba2-16431c2317b2/manifest