Item Summary

A section of Minhāj al-qāṣidīn on marriage, and a treatise against the use of ḥashīsh.

Descriptive Information

Title
منهاج القاصدين ... [الخ].
Transliterated Title
Minhāj al-qāṣidīn ... [etc].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1056H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc41687w145
Publisher
80-? [1398-1400?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1398-1400
Format
Manuscript
Extent
8 leaves : paper ; 187 x 138 (130-160 x 100-120) mm bound to 190 x 140 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 2136.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a-7a: Minhāj al-qāṣidīn / Abū al-Faraj al-Jawzī. Section from a collection of religious and moral subjects which deals with marriage and is entitled Kitāb Ādāb al-nikāḥ.
2. fol. 7b-8b: Majlis fī dhamm al-ḥashīshah / ʻIzz al-Dīn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn ʻAbd al-Salām ibn ʻĀmir al-Maqdisī al-Shāfiʻī. A brief treatise decrying the use of ḥashīsh.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from heading of first work (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 8 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 20 lines per page.
Description: Overlining in red ; first and last folios on orange paper ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed 10 Rabīʻ al-Akhir 80-? by Ṭalḥah ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Abī al-ʻAlāʼ al-Ḥanbalī (fol. 8b).
Incipit: [منهاج القاصدين] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله كتاب آداب النكاح وفيه ثلثة ابواب -- [مجلس في ذم الحشيشه] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم اخو انى ليس من العجب جاهل ...
Colophon: [منهاج القاصدين] ... في السمآ ساخطا عليها حتى رضى عنها والله تعالى اعلم -- [مجلس في ذم الحشيشه] كتبت .. يوم الثلثآ العاشر من شهر ربيع الاخر من ؟ وثمانمايه ... على يد فقير رحمه ربه القدير طاحه بن محمد بن ابرهيم بن ابى العلا الحنبلى لطفه اللع تعالى
Binding Note
Later limp covering in dark blue paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Hashish—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800
Marriage—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Colored papers

Physical Characteristics

File Count
24

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/c88c178a-8fec-4410-b188-d61ff8817677/manifest