Item Summary

A polemic and apologetic treatise answering the objections of Jews and Christians to Islam and refuting their doctrines.

Descriptive Information

Title
هداية الحيارى في اجوبة اليهود والنصارى / للامام المحقق شمس الدين ابي عبد الله محمد بن ابي بكر بن ايوب الذرعي الشهير بابن قيم الجوزي.
Transliterated Title
Hidāyat al-ḥayārá fī ajwibat al-Yahūd wa-al-Naṣārá / lil-Imām al-Muḥaqqiq Shams al-Dīn Abī ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr ibn Ayyūb al-Dharʻī al-shahīr bi-Ibn Qayyim al-Jawzī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 976H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc4m90f706z
Publisher
21 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1275 [October 29, 1858]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1858
Format
Manuscript
Extent
209 leaves : paper ; 212 x 155 (165 x 100) mm bound to 212 x 160 mm.
Provenance
Previously owned by Robert Garrett (1875-1961), Princeton Class of 1897.
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
Gift; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1518.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 476.
Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 2024.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from caption (fol. 8a).
Marginal notes and glosses. Table of contents (fol. 1b-4a). Text begins on folio 8b. The title appears on the lower edge of the text block.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 203 ; catchwords ; pagination in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Overlining and other use of red ; watermarks (hats?) ; MS in good condition, lower corner stained throughout entire MS.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Friday 21 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1275 by Muṣṭafá Rushdī ibn Aḥmad Falyūzī (fol. 209b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي رضي لنا الاسلام دينا ونصب لنا الدلالة على صحته برهانا مبينا ...
Colophon: تمت الکتاب المستطاب بعون الله الوهاب کتبه الحقيرالفقير الى رحمة ربه القديرمصطفى رشدي بن احمد فليوزي غفرذنوبهما وسترعيوبهما الباري في السنة خمس وسبعين [و مائتين والف واتمه في اليوم احدى وعشرين ربيع الاول ليلة الجمعة وعلى حساب ابجد سنة في غرعه في يوم کافي ليلها 21 ر[بيع] ا[ول] سنة 1275
Binding Note
Contemporaneous type II (with flap) binding in red leather and blue embossed paper. Green paper pastedowns and flyleaves. Multi-colored endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islam—Relations—Christianity—Early works to 1800
Islam—Relations—Judaism—Early works to 1800
Judaism—Relations—Islam—Early works to 1800
Christianity and other religions—Islam—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Headbands
Watermarks
Embossed papers

Physical Characteristics

File Count
440

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/2e331353-bae0-478a-98b9-5a41bb4714df/manifest