Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
کتاب في اعتقاد الخوارج من المسلمين.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb fī iʻtiqād al-Khawārij min al-muslimīn
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 312L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcjw827q960
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1824-1899
Extent
80 leaves : paper ; 195 x 124 (140 x 72) mm bound to 202 x 132 mm.
Provenance
Obscured stamp (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1607.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
A compilation of the beliefs and doctrines of the Khārijite sect.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
The work was composed for a certain ʻAlī ʻĪd. Label on upper cover: "3 G". Note about the manuscript following the colophon (fol. 80a-80b).
Collation: Paper ; fol. iv + 80+ vii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 13 lines per page.
Description: Watermarks (portrait with text "Charles X roi de France et de Navare; coat-of-arms with fleur-de-lis surrounded by laurels and topped with a crown; roman-alphabet letters "I Johannot[?]") ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to note after the colophon copied by Yūḥannā ibn Yūsuf Wārsī al-Faransīsī in Marseille (fol. 80a). Probably from the early XlXth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وقوله تعالى انه قال مولانا امير المومنين الله سبحانه قد اوصفني في كتابه العزيز ...
Colophon: تم الکتاب بعون الملك الوهاب
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type III (without flap) binding in light brown leather. Marbled paper pastedowns and flyleaves. Gold-stamped floral motifs, bands and title in French on spine. Multi-colored endbands.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
188

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/a1b72f1b-f91c-4ab2-8af9-e184e4bd36d9/manifest