• حياة النفس في حضرة القدس
  • Ḥayāt al-nafs fī ḥaḍrat al-quds

Collections:
  • Robert Garrett
  • Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
  • Collections Donated to Princeton University Library
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Language:
  • Arabic
Creator:
  • Aḥsāʾī, Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn, 1753-1826
  • احسائي، احمد بن زين الدين
Call number:
  • Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1897Y
  • Electronic Resource
Extent:
  • 31 leaves: paper ; 191 x 115 (130 x 68) mm.
Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Description:
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title from preamble of text (first unumbered fol. b). The name of the author appears at the beginning of the text.
  • Physical description: 15 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. European cream paper, with watermark; glossy; frame-ruled. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Last fol. (fol. 30 in the modern foliation, is a added blank leaf). Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first fol.).
  • Origin: According to colophon, copied by Muḥammad Ḥusayn (or Ḥasan) Ibn Muḥammad Jaʻfar ...?, on 5 Ṣafar 1253 [May 11, 1837] (fol. 29b).
  • Incipit: الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على محمد وآله الطاهرين اما بعد فيقول العبد المسكين احمد بن زين الدين الاحسائى انه قد التمس منى بعض الاخوان الذين يجب طاعتهم ان اكتب لهم رسالة فى بعض ما يجب على المكلفين من معرفت اصول الدين اعنى التوحيد والعدل والنبوة والامامة والمعاد وما يلحق بها بالدليل
  • Explicit: والرضاء فى كل حال بقدره وقضائه فانه ولى كل خير وصلى الله على محمد واله الطاهرين
Publisher:
  • [1837]
Subject:
  • Shaykhī—Doctrines
  • Shaykhī—Texts
  • Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Title sort:
  • Ḥayāt al-nafs fī ḥaḍrat al-quds.
Spatial:
  • New Jersey
Provenance:
  • Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source acquisition:
  • Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References:
  • Mach, R. Yahuda, 2612
  • Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 485/10
Author:
  • Aḥsāʾī, Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn, 1753-1826
Created:
  • 1837-01-01T00:00:00Z
Date:
  • 1837
Abstract:
  • Short treatise on the principles of religion, comprising an introduction, five chapters (bāb) - tawḥīd, ʻadl, nubuwwah, imāmah, maʻād -, and a conclusion.
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/3197xp65b
Location:
  • HSVM Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1897Y
  • HSVM Electronic Resource
  • ELF1 Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1897Y
  • ELF1 Electronic Resource
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Type:
  • Texts
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