• كتاب اعلام الاعلام بمناقب شيخ الاسلام قاضي القضاة علي السبكي رحمه الله / من جمع ولده قاضي القضاة تاج الدين السبكي رحمة الله عليه امين
• Kitāb Iʻlām al-aʻlām bi-manāqib shaykh al-Islām qāḍī al-quḍāh ʻAlī al-Subkī raḥimahu Allāhu / min jamʻ waladihi qāḍī al-quḍāh Tāj al-Dīn al-Subkī raḥmat Allāh ʻalayhi amīn.

Collections:

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

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9954647923506421

Language:

• Arabic

Creator:

• Subkī, Tāj al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʻAlī, approximately 1327-1370
• سبكي، تاج الدين عبد الوهاب بن علي

Call number:

• Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2258Y

Extent:

• i, 103, i leaves: paper ; 175 x 130 (135 x 95) mm. bound to 175 x 140 mm.

Format:

• Manuscript
• Book

Description:

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Physical description: 17 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for re-inking and text-stops (dots or drops in groups of three). Light cream paper, glossy, hardly translucid ; frame-ruled. Fol. 10 is a later replacement.
• Collation: Paper, fol. i, 103, i ; i (modern free endpaper) 1¹⁰ (-1 at beginning of quire) 2-10¹⁰ 11⁴ i (modern free endpaper) ; catchword on the verso of some leaves ; the quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals in the form "Thālith" (see fol. 20a).
• Origin: According to colophon, copied by Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Wuhaybah ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī al-Qāsim al-Shāfiʻī, who completed his copy (taʻlīq) on Saturday 17 Shaʻbān 766 [May 1365] (fol. 102a).
• Incipit: بسم ... رب يسر اما بعد فهذه ترجمة جمة الفوايد حميد المصادر والموارد ينبغى لكل راغب فى العلم والعمل مراجعتها
• Explicit: من هو اعلا مقاما من الشيخ الاسلام ثم على نبينا محمد افضل الصلاة والسلام وعلى اله واصحابه على الدوام [102أ] حسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل لين فجعنا بالتقى النقي ففي الى نصر تأس وفي فيرحم الله اماما مضي وايّد الله اماما بقي

Publisher:

• [1365]

Subject:

• Subkī, Taqī al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd al-Kāfī, 1284-1355
• Muslim scholars—Biography
• Fatwas—History—Sources
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
• سبكي، تقي الدين علي بن عبد الكافي

Title sort:

• Kitāb Iʻlām al-aʻlām bi-manāqib shaykh al-Islām qāḍī al-quḍāh ʻAlī al-Subkī raḥimahu Allāhu / min jamʻ waladihi qāḍī al-quḍāh Tāj al-Dīn al-Subkī raḥmat Allāh ʻalayhi amīn.

Spatial:

• New Jersey

Binding note:

• Decorated paper inlaid in brown leather binding with flap. Modern paper pastedowns and free endpapers. Traces of an embossed leather reliure on fol. 103b.

Provenance:

• Note signed by al-Ḥasan ibn Ibrāhīm al-Khālidī, from Baʻlbak on fol. 1a. Ownership statement in the name of al-Sayyid Muḥammad ibn al-Sayyid Ḥasan on fol. 1a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition:

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

References:

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 4673

Author:

• Subkī, Tāj al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʻAlī, approximately 1327-1370

Created:

• 1365-01-01T00:00:00Z

Date:

• 1365

Abstract:

• Biography of his father Taqī al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd al-Kāfī (d. 756/1355), an excerpt from his Ṭabaqāt al-Shāfiʻīyah al-kubrá. A note on fol. 1a indicates that this is followed by the entry on the same Taqī al-Dīn al-Subkī by Ibn al-Zamlakānī, apparently not extant. The text proper ends on fol. 102a, and is followed on fol. 102b-103a by the record of a fatwa as transmitted by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ...?

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/r494vr687

Location:

• HSVM Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2258Y

Edm rights:

• No Known Copyright

Type:

• Biography
• Sources

Uniform title:

• Iʻlām al-aʻlām bi-manāqib shaykh al-Islām qāḍī al-quḍāt ʻAlī al-Subkī.
• اعلام الاعلام بمناقب شيخ الاسلام قاضي القضاة علي السبكي

Range label:

• Logical