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Descriptive Information

Title
نظم السنوسية ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Naẓm al-Sanūsīyah ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 4526Y
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcrr172c19q
Publisher
[1400-1699]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1400-1699
Format
Manuscript
Extent
leaves : paper ; 172 x 127 (123-143 x 80-92) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts (Yahuda Section), 2204, 2325, 2359, 2360, 2365, 2885.
Brockelmann, GAL, I, 546 (no. 1); II, 325 (II, Versif. 2); S I, 287 (VI); S I, 756;
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1b-10b: Naẓm al-Sanūsīyah. Versification of Umm al-barāhīn.
2. fol. 12b-35a: Sharḥ Waṣīyat Abī Ḥanīfah.
3. fol. 37b-43b: Risālah al-Quṭbīyah. Anonymous creed, dedicated to al-Amīr al-Kabīr Quṭb al-Dīn Arghūntakīn ibn al-Amīr al-Aʻẓam Bahāʼ al-Dīn.
4. fol. 43b-48a: ʻAqīdat ulamāʼ mā warāʼ al-nahr. A Maturidite creed. The recipient of the letter is perhaps identical with ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Balkhī al-Sikilkandī, who lived in Damascus and died in Aleppo in 547/1152-3.
5. fol. 59a-69a: Tajrīd fī kalimat al-tawḥīd. Incomplete at beginning.
6. fol. 69b-72a: Maqāmāt al-arbaʻūn. Perhaps identical with Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻarabīyah (1887-1892/3), VII, 263 (Risālah fī ādāb al-taṣawwuf, no incipit given).
7. fol. 72b-76a: [Faṣl fī al-ʻudhbah]
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Layout: 13-20 lines per page.
Origin: [al-Risālah al-Quṭbīyah] Copied Dhū al-Qaʻdah 886 -- [ʻAqīdat ulamāʼ mā warāʼ al-nahr] Copied Dhū al-Ḥijjah 886 -- [al-Tajrīd fī kalimat al-tawḥīd] Copied Shawwāl 869.
Incipit: [نظم السنوسية] قال محمد هو الجمازى * الحمد لله على المغازى -- [شرح وصية] الحمد لله المتوحد بوجوب الوجود ... قال ... الايمان اقرار باللسان ... اقول الکلام ههنا فى ماهية الايمان -- [الرسالة القطبية] الحمد لله ... وبعد فان اول ما يجب على کل مکلف هو معرفة الله تعالى ... وهذه الرسالة مشتملة على قدر ما لا بد منها ... ورسمت لخدمة الامير الکبير -- [عقيدة علماء] هو الله الواحد القديم الحى القادر العليم السميع -- [المقامات الاربعون] الحمد لله ... قال ... ابو نصر ... سألتنى يا اخى ... عن التصوف وحقيقه

Discovery Information

Subject
Hanafites—Early works to 1800
Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Shahada—Early works to 1800
Sufism—Early works to 1800
Wills, Ethical—Early works to 1800
Abū Ḥanīfah -767 or 768—Waṣīyah
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

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File Count
198

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
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