Item Summary

A collection containing four works on Islamic law and doctrines.

Descriptive Information

Title
[منح الازهر] ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
[Minaḥ al-azʹhar] ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 983H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc9306t8812
Publisher
[18th century]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1799
Format
Manuscript
Extent
228 leaves : paper ; 195-200 x 144-148 (130-150 x 75-90) mm bound to 201 x 154 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 2091.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 261; IV, pp. 458/9, VI, p. 182.
A catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 434.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a: [Extracts] A poem from ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib and three short extracts from several sources.
2. fol. 1b-10b: Jāmiʻah li-zubdat ʻaqāʼid ahl al-sunnah wa-al-jamāʻah. A work on Muslim creed and doctrine.
3. fol. 11b-20a: al-Risālah al-sharīfah al-tartībīyah. A short work on Muslim creed and doctrine by Najjārʹzādah, described as a former mufti in Adana.
4. fol. 21b-25b: [ʻUmdat al-ʻaqāiʼd]. A statement of the articles of Muslim faith by Hāfiẓ al-Dīn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Nasafī. This is based on ʻAqāʼid al-Nasafī, a work on the same subject by Najm al-Dīn al-Nasafī.
5. fol. 27b-227a: [Minaḥ al-azʹhar] A commentary by ʻAlī ibn Sulṭān Muḥamad al-Qārī on al-Fiqh al-akbar, a treatise on jurisprudence by Abū Ḥanīfah.
6. fol. 227b-228b: [Inscriptions]
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Inserts. Titles on lower edge of text block.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 228 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 13-21 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; written in Fārisī and general scripts ; in different hands on different paper ; watermarks (coat-of-arms consisting of circles the top circle holding a cross, flanked by animals and topped with a crown; countermark roman-alphabet initials with a trefoil; cross-star-crescent) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: [Risālah jāmiʻah li-zubdat ʻaqāʼid] Copied 1123 in Diyārbakr by ʻAlī ibn Ḥusayn ibn Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad al-ʻAwfī al-Ṭarabzūnī (fol. 10b) -- [al-Risālah al-sharīfah al-tartībīyah] Copied 1121 [in the same hand as the previous work] (fol. 20a)
Incipit: [جامعة لزبدة] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذى اطلع من مشارف غيوبه ... وبعد فيقول المفتقر الى الله الغفر عن العالمين ... -- [الرسالة الشريفة الترتيبية] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذيى جعل ترتيب العلوم ... اما بعد فهذه رسالة تتعلق ببيان الاعتقاد والاخلاف ... -- [عمدة العقائد] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قال .. الحق الحقائق الاشياء ثانية والعلم بها -- [منح الازهر] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله واجب الوجوب ذي الكرم والفضل والجود ... اما بعد افقر العباد الى ربه الباري على بن سلطان محمد القاري ... اعلم ان علم التوحيد ...
Explicit: [جامعة لزبدة] كتبه ... على بن حسين بن حسن بن احمد الاوفى الطربزونى في مدينة الاحد المشهورة بدياربكر ... في سنه 1123 -- [الرسالة الشريفة الترتيبية] تمت الرسالة الشريفة الترتيبية التى صنفها نجارزاده المفتى في آدنه سابقا سنه 1121 -- [عمدة العقائد] تمت العقايد في يوم م م م -- [منح الازهر] ... والحمد لله اولا واخرا والسلام على نبيه ظاهرا وباطنا امين با رب العالمين ويرحم الله عبدا تم قال امين بعون الله تعالى تم
Binding Note
Later? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled decorative edging. Tan paper pastedowns. Flap missing.

Discovery Information

Subject
Abū Ḥanīfah -767 or 768—Fiqh al-akbar
Hanafites—Early works to 1800
Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
470

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/4b622c37-6f20-4f30-9700-ee75ede76285/manifest