Descriptive Information

Title

مناهج / شيخ بهائي. معالم الدين وملاذ المجتهدين.

Transliterated Title

Manāhij / Shaykh Bahāʼī. Maʻālim al-dīn wa-malādhdh al-mujtahidīn.

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 86

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/9g54xm25g

Publisher

[16--?]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1600-1699

Format

Manuscript

Extent

185 leaves : paper ; 210 x 125 (114-134 x 56-61) bound to mm 216 x 129 mm.

Provenance

Two smudged owner's stamps on leaf 185b.

References

Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 1613, 598.

Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 597 (no. 17); II, 426 (2 : no. 1); SII, 450.

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Contents

1. fol. 1a-57b: Manāhij Shaykh Bahāʼī / Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʻĀmilī. Treatise on uṣūl al-fiqh, missing the first leaf.

2. fol. 58b-185b: Maʻālim al-dīn wa-malādhdh al-mujtahidīn / al-Ḥasan Ibn al-Shahīd al-Thānī. Treatise on Shiʻite fiqh, breaking off in the middle of the ninth maṭlab on ijtihād and taqlīd.

Notes

Ms. composite codex.

Title from leaves 1a, 58a; also present on partially torn spine labels.

Layout: 8-14 lines per page.

Description: Written in black on cream glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Some staining and paper repairs.

Origin: Likely 17th century.

Incipit: [معالمالدين] الحمد لله المتعالي في عز جلاله عن مطارح الافهام فلا يحيط بكنهه العارفون

Binding Note

Full brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla; brown leather doublures; edges and spine repaired.

Discovery Information

Subject

Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800

Shīʻah—Early works to 1800

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Blind tooled bindings

Stamps

Physical Characteristics

File Count

194

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/43bbd6d9-52aa-4670-a009-3e487ce5c498/manifest

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