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هذه قصيدة المرحوم الحاج احمد الكباشي.
Hādhihi Qaṣīdat al-marḥūm al-Ḥājj Aḥmad al-Kabbāshī.
An ode bewailing the depravity of manners in the East, especially among the higher classes. It urges people to abandon sodomy and the use of opium and revive the religious practices of Islām, such as fasting, almsgiving and pilgrimage.
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Item Summary
An ode bewailing the depravity of manners in the East, especially among the higher classes. It urges people to abandon sodomy and the use of opium and revive the religious practices of Islām, such as fasting, almsgiving and pilgrimage.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- هذه قصيدة المرحوم الحاج احمد الكباشي.
- Transliterated Title
- Hādhihi Qaṣīdat al-marḥūm al-Ḥājj Aḥmad al-Kabbāshī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 100H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/fj236b71r
- Publisher
- [Egypt?]
- Language
- Arabic
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 7, (2) leaves : paper ; 150 x 103 (130 x 85) mm. bound to 150 x 104 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 154.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 7 + (2) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Description: MS in fair condition.
- Layout: 10-12 lines per page.
- Ms. codex.
- Poem is in colloquial Arabic. From the reference to opium and the use of certain words it may be concluded that the poem was written in Egypt.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- Colophon: عفى [عفا] الله لکاتبها وقارئها ومؤلفها وسامعها ولکل المسلمين اجمعين
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتي. ففکرت في حال الزمان وما حصل * فيه من الاهوال کم شيء حصل
- Binding Note
- Covered in blue paper with printed paper pastedowns from an army log book.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 26
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e61c5d98-050c-4c82-859a-576f50823e99/manifest