Item Summary

A collection of four works by Mīrghanī and one by al-Madābighī. One the folios between the texts is interspersed a collection written in the same hand consisting largely of poetry.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا شرح حزب الشاذلي الكبير ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Sharḥ Ḥizb al-Shādhilī al-kabīr ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1107H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc1831cw99j
Publisher
[18th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1799
Format
Manuscript
Extent
101 leaves : paper ; 153 x 104 (110-125 x 65-85) mm bound to 152 x 110 mm.
Provenance
Seal impression (fol. 1b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 2058.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a-2b: [Poetry collection]
2. fol. 3a-52b: Hādhā Sharḥ Ḥizb al-Shādhilī al-kabīr / taʼlīf Ḥasan al-Madābighī. A commentary on al-Ḥizb al-kabīr (also called al-Ḥizb al-barr) a prayer by Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī al-Shādhilī. Incomplete at end.
3. fol. 53a-54b: [Poetry collection]
4. fol. 55a-64a: Hādhihi al-Durrah al-yatīmah fī baʻḍ manāqib al-Sayyidah al-ʻAẓīmah / li-Sayyidinā ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ibrāhīm Mīrghanī. A work on the virtues of Fāṭimah.
5. fol. 64b: [Poetry collection]
6. fol. 65a-72b: al-Tuḥfah al-ẓarīfah fī al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-ḥaḍrah al-sharīfah / lil-Sayyid ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ibrāhīm Mīrghanī. A collection of prayers and collects for the Prophet. Several lines of poetry on the title page. Incomplete at end.
7. fol. 73a-74b: [Poetry collection]
8. fol. 75a-81a: al-Maqāṣid al-fukhrá fī baʻḍ manāqib al-Sayyidah Khadījah al-kubrá / ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ibrāhīm Mīrghanī. A work on the virtues of Khadījah. Lines of poetry on the title page.
9. fol. 81a-83b: [Poetry collection]
10. fol. 84a-88a: al-Jawharah al-shaffāfīyah fī baʻḍ manāqib al-Sayyidah al-Ṣiddīqīyah. A work on the virtues of ʻĀʼishah. The copy was made in 1173/1760 by Ḥusayn ibn Ibrāhīm Mīrghanī. Incomplete at beginning.
11. fol. 88b-101b: [Poetry collection, etc.] Continuation of the poetry collection as well as a longer qaṣīdah and the beginning of a text written in different hands.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from title page of work 1 (fol. 3a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 101 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17-26 lines per page ; 5 main texts are ruled
Description: Rubricated ; some vowel signs ; watermarks (grapes?; three crescents?) ; MS in fair condition.
Origin: Probably from XVIIIth century.
Incipit: [Poetry collection] تعصي الاله وانت تاكل رزقه ويراك اذ من خلقه ببكلم -- [شرح حزب الشاذلي] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي من توسل اليه بخالص ادعيته لباه ... اما بعد فقد تسئالني بعض الاحباب ... ان اشرح الحزب الكبير ... -- [الدرة اليتيمة] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين حمدا له منه عليه والشكر لله مولى العالمين ... وبعد نبذة تتعلق بنبذة من مناقب سيدة التساء العالمين ... -- [التحفة الظريفة] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذى جعل الصلاة على هذا الحبيب صلة ورحمه ...وبعد فهذه التحفة الظريفة في الصلاه على الحضرة الشريقه ... -- [المقاصد الفخرى] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله المنان بمحمد بن عدنان والشكر لله الحنان ... وبعد فهذه المقاصد الفخرى في بعض المناقب السيدة خديجة الكبرى ... -- [الجوهرة الشفافية] ... واقامتها وموتها وسميتها الجوهرة الشفافية في بعض مناقب السيدة الضديقية ...
Explicit: [الدرة اليتيمة] تمت على يد الحقير المعروف بالذنوب والتقصير محمد كبير؟ بن السيد عبد الله بن السيد محمد ذاكر ابن السيد احمد باطشاه امامي نقيب الشراف بلخ فقر الله ... -- [المقاصد الفخرى] وهذا ختم المقاصد والفاتحة على المقاصد وعلى نية كل قاصد تم تم تم -- [الجوهرة الشفافية] وقد كمل التمام وحسن الاختام ونساله حسن الختام وتمام المرام لجاهه عليه الصلاة والسلام تمت
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and tan paper. Upper cover defective. Possibly a type II binding with flap removed.

Discovery Information

Subject
Shādhilī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh approximately 1196-1258—Ḥizb al-barr
Fāṭimah -632 or 633—Early works to 1800
Khadījah -approximately 619—Early works to 1800
ʻĀʼishah approximately 614-678—Early works to 1800
Muḥammad Prophet -632—Prayers and devotions—Early works to 1800
Islam—Prayers and devotions—Early works to 1800
Prayer—Islam—Early works to 1800
Shādhilīyah—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Poetry
Stamps
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
210

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/7a1a1718-1e88-4b72-90f5-2fcceba5112d/manifest