• الاربعون في اصول الدين / فخر الدين الرازي. الاربعين في امامة الطاهرين / محمد طاهر بن محمد طاهر بن محمد حسين الشيرازي ثم النجفي.
• al-Arbaʻūn fī uṣūl al-dīn / al-Arbaʻīn fī imāmat al-Ṭāhirīn / Muḥammad Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad Ḥusayn al-Shīrāzī thumma al-Najafī. Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī.

Collections:

• Robert Garrett
• Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
• Collections Donated to Princeton University Library

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9949530653506421

Language:

• Arabic

Creator:

• Rāzī, Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar, 1149 or 1150-1210
• رازي، فخر الدين محمد بن عمر

Call number:

• Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2414Yq

Extent:

• 188 leaves: paper ; 293 x 204 (205 x 132) mm. bound to 293 x 210 mm.

Format:

• Manuscript
• Book

Description:

• 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).

Publisher:

• [1703 or 1704]

Subject:

• Shīʿah—Doctrines—17th century
• Imamate—Early works to 1800
• Imams (Shiites)—Early works to 1800
• Islam—Doctrines—12th century
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Spatial:

• New Jersey

Binding note:

• 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:

• Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition:

• Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References:

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 2608, 3039

Author:

• Rāzī, Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar, 1149 or 1150-1210

Created:

• 1703-01-01T00:00:00Z

Date:

• 1703

Abstract:

• Collection of two treatises on uṣūl al-dīn, and Shīʻī doctrine of imāmate, the later apparently incomplete at end.

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/9s161879k

Location:

• Special Collections Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2414Yq

Edm rights:

• No Known Copyright

Contents:

• 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:

• Bayḍāwī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUmar, -1286?
• بيضاوي، عبد الله بن عمر

Available online:

• arks.princeton.edu