- Arbaʻūn fī uṣūl al-dīn / Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī. al-Arbaʻīn fī imāmat al-Ṭāhirīn / Muḥammad Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad Ḥusayn al-Shīrāzī thumma al-Najafī.
- al-Arbaʻūn fī uṣūl al-dīn / Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī. al-Arbaʻīn fī imāmat al-Ṭāhirīn / Muḥammad Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad Ḥusayn al-Shīrāzī thumma al-Najafī.
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- Robert Garrett
- Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
- Collections Donated to Princeton University Library
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- Language:
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- Arabic
- Creator:
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- Rāzī, Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar, 1149 or 1150-1210
- رازي، فخر الدين محمد بن عمر
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- Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2414Yq
- Electronic Resource
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- 188 leaves: paper ; 293 x 204 (205 x 132) mm. bound to 293 x 210 mm.
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- Manuscript
- Book
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- Ms. codex.
- Title provided by cataloger.
- 27 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink. Fol. 183a-184a written in thick small naskh. Fol. 8-184 : European glazed paper. Fol. 1-7 and 185-188: fly-leaves on woven paper, with short excerpts written diagonally. Text 1 has been collated (see collation statement dated 17 Jumādá al-Thānī 1[1]16 [1704] on the margins of fol. 136a). Short excerpts and annotations on the margins. Long biographic note on Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī after the colophon of text 1 (fol. 136a, 11 lines). Between fol. 135 and 136: Text in Persian on a small piece of paper. Some leaves loose.
- Copy of text 1 completed in 1115 by ʻAlī(?) ibn ʻAlī Akramghār(?) (colophon, fol. 136a).
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- [1703 or 1704]
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- Shīʻah—Doctrines—17th century
- Imamate—Early works to 1800
- Imams (Shiites)—Early works to 1800
- Islam—Doctrines—12th century
- Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
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- Arbaʻūn fī uṣūl al-dīn / Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī. al-Arbaʻīn fī imāmat al-Ṭāhirīn / Muḥammad Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad Ḥusayn al-Shīrāzī thumma al-Najafī.
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- New Jersey
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- Upper and lower covers made of brown leather over paper pasteboards (visible). Both covers are similarly blind-tooled with a central mandorla with a floral motif with two pendants on the vertical axis and an outer frame consisting of a running pattern and fillets. Rebacked.
- Provenance:
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- Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
- Source acquisition:
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- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References:
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- Mach, R. Yahuda, 2608, 3039
- Author:
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- Rāzī, Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar, 1149 or 1150-1210
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- 1703-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Date:
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- 1703
- Abstract:
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- Collection of two treatises on uṣūl al-dīn, and Shīʻī doctrine of imāmate, the later apparently incomplete at end.
- Identifier:
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- ark:/88435/9s161879k
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- HSVM Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2414Yq
- HSVM Electronic Resource
- ELF1 Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2414Yq
- ELF1 Electronic Resource
- Edm rights:
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- No Known Copyright
- Type:
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- Early works to 1800
- Contents:
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- 1. fol. 1a-6a: [Short excerpts from Ḥāshiyat Sharḥ al-Maṭāliʻ; Sharḥ al-Mawāqif [by Jurjānī]; a commentary on Āyat al-Nūr; a text on Wājib al-wujūd; Jamʻ al-Jawāmiʻ; Ibn Ḥajar; Bayḍāwī].
- 2. fol. 6b-7b: [Table of contents of Kitāb Arbaʻīn by Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī, followed by a short biographic note on the author].
- 3. fol. 8a: [Short excerpt on al-imkān al-khāṣṣ and al-imkān al-ʻāmm; inscriptions in Persian].
- 4. fol. 8b-136a: al-Arbaʻūn fī uṣūl al-dīn / Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī.
- 5. fol. 136b-182a: al-Arbaʻīn fī imāmat al-Ṭāhirīn / Muḥammad Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad Ḥusayn al-Shīrāzī thumma al-Najafī.
- 6. fol. 182b: [Blank].
- 7. fol. 183a-184a: [Short text on God's attributes apparently by Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr ibn Abī Bakr ibn Muḥammad, see end of text, fol. 184a).
- 8. fol. 185a-188b: [Excerpts from Itqān al-ʻulūm by Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī; Ibrāhīm al-Ghazzī reporting from Ṣawāʼiq al-muḥriqah by Ibn Ḥajar [al-Haythamī]; Bayḍawī; Sharḥ al-Shmasīyah; Sharḥ al-Mawāqif [by Jurjānī].
- Contributor:
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- Bayḍāwī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUmar, -1286?
- بيضاوي، عبد الله بن عمر
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