Item Summary

A treatise commenting on the creed recited after repeating the beautiful names of God.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا شرح العقيدة المشهورة التي تقرأ بعد الاسما الحسنى / للفقير عبد الله بن علي سويدان.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Sharḥ al-ʻaqīdah al-mashhūrah allatī tuqraʼu baʻda al-asmāʼ al-ḥusná / lil-Faqīr ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAlī Suwaydān.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1128H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc2801pv06c
Publisher
[18th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1799
Format
Manuscript
Extent
10 leaves : paper ; 168 x 117 (110 x 70) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1970.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Two marginal notes on folio 9a.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 10 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 13 lines per page.
Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; watermarks (three crescents, roman-alphabet initials "AB[?]") ; MS in good condition.
Origin: Probably from the early part of XVIIIth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الموصوف بلك كمال والصلاة والسلام ... وبعد فيقول الفقير الي الرحيم الرحمن عبد الله بن علي سويدان هذا شرح على العقيدة المشهورة التي تقرا بعد الاسما الحسني ...
Colophon (as recorded in Hitti's Catalogue): اغثنا اي يا الله برحمتك يا ارحم الراحمين وصلىّ الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه اجمعين تمت بحمد الله وعونه. تم
Ending (as extant): وهذه الكلمة من الذخاير وقدور ورد فيها احاديث ...
Binding Note
Unbound.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islam—Prayers and devotions—Early works to 1800
God (Islam)—Name—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
24

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/9ad716c7-dc5f-41cf-a667-263e2df70319/manifest