- [رسالة الاعتقادات] ... [الخ].
- [Risālat al-iʻtiqādāt] ... [etc.].
- Collections:
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- Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
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- Limp black leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants and blind-tooled fillets. Spine repaired with cloth.
- Location:
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- Special Collections Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 151
- Contributor:
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- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 151
- Call number:
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- Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 151
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- Manuscript
- Book
- Identifier:
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- ark:/88435/j098zd72m
- References:
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- Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 125, 382, 1162, 1172, 1379.
- Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 546 (no. 3); SII, 578 (3: no. 3); SII, 597 (no. 27)
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- Publisher:
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- [1717 or 1718]
- Abstract:
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- Collection of Shiʻite texts.
- Language:
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- Arabic
- Text language:
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- Arabic and Persian.
- Contents:
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- 1. leaves 1b-4b: [Risālat al-iʻtiqādāt] / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī. Short treatise on Shiʻite doctrine.
- 2. leaves 4b-8b: Risālah fī taḥqīq al-qiblah / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī. Treatise on determining the direction of the qiblah.
- 3. leaves 9b-13b: Faṣl dar z̲ikr-i ṣūrat. Extract on geometry from an unidentified mathematics text, with diagrams in the margins.
- 4. leaves 13b-18b: [Risālah fī taḥrīm dhabāʼiḥ ahl al-kitāb] / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī. Treatise discussing the prohibition on the meat of the Ahl al-Kitāb.
- 5. leaves 19b-65a: Bidāyat al-hidāyah / Ḥurr al-ʻĀmilī. Treatise on religious duties and prohibitions.
- 6. leaves 65b-73b: [al-Ṣaḥāʼif al-arbaʻūn al-ilāhīyah]. Forty ḥadīth qudsī, supposedly from the Tawrāh according to the introduction; text breaks off in the middle of the 35th ḥadīth.
- 7. leaves 74a-152a: [al-Fuṣūl al-muhimmah fī uṣūl al-aʼimmah] / Ḥurr al-ʻĀmilī. Hadiths on legal topics attributed to the Shiʻite imams, particularly Jaʻfar al-Ṣādiq. Missing a few leaves at the beginning (abwāb al-wuḍūʼ begin on leaf 74b). Followed by prayers in Arabic on leaves 151b-152a.
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- 1717-1718
- Description:
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- Ms. codex.
- Title from text 1.
- Physical description: 17-18 lines per page; written in medium naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Text 3 in nastaʻliq with elements of shikastah. Rubrication and catchwords. Lower corners and outer edge moldered; marginal damp-staining.
- Origin: Text 4, 1130 H [1717 or 1718] (leaf 18b). Text 5, the second third of Jumādá I 1130 H [April 1718], by Ibn Ḥāfiẓ ʻAbd al-Laṭīf Muḥammad ʻAlī al-Rāzī (leaf 65a). Text 7, Ṣafar (leaf 151a). Remaining texts likely completed by the same scribe around the same time.
- Incipit: [رسالة الاعتقادات] الحمد لله على آلائه ... وبعد نحن معاشر الشيعة الاثنى عشرية انما اخذنا اصولنا الدينية وفروعنا الملية -- [رسالة في تحقيق القبلة] اما بعد الحمد و الصلوة فىقول ... ان تحقىق حقىقة جهة القبلة -- [فصل در ذکر صورت] فصل در ذکر صورت گر بر سبىل اجمال صور متصور در ضرب -- [رسالة في تحريم] الحمد لله على جزىل افضاله -- [بداية الهداية] الحمد لله ... وبعد فيقول ... قد التمس منى جماعة من الاخوان -- [الصحائف الاربعون الالهية] عجبت لمن اىقن بالموت
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- New Jersey
- Provenance:
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- On leaf 19a, note dated Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1155 H [February 1743].
- Edm rights:
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- No Known Copyright
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- Description:
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- Ms. codex.
- Title from text 1.
- Physical description: 17-18 lines per page; written in medium naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Text 3 in nastaʻliq with elements of shikastah. Rubrication and catchwords. Lower corners and outer edge moldered; marginal damp-staining.
- Origin: Text 4, 1130 H [1717 or 1718] (leaf 18b). Text 5, the second third of Jumādá I 1130 H [April 1718], by Ibn Ḥāfiẓ ʻAbd al-Laṭīf Muḥammad ʻAlī al-Rāzī (leaf 65a). Text 7, Ṣafar (leaf 151a). Remaining texts likely completed by the same scribe around the same time.
- Incipit: [رسالة الاعتقادات] الحمد لله على آلائه ... وبعد نحن معاشر الشيعة الاثنى عشرية انما اخذنا اصولنا الدينية وفروعنا الملية -- [رسالة في تحقيق القبلة] اما بعد الحمد و الصلوة فىقول ... ان تحقىق حقىقة جهة القبلة -- [فصل در ذکر صورت] فصل در ذکر صورت گر بر سبىل اجمال صور متصور در ضرب -- [رسالة في تحريم] الحمد لله على جزىل افضاله -- [بداية الهداية] الحمد لله ... وبعد فيقول ... قد التمس منى جماعة من الاخوان -- [الصحائف الاربعون الالهية] عجبت لمن اىقن بالموت
- Title:
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- [رسالة الاعتقادات] ... [الخ].
- [Risālat al-iʻtiqādāt] ... [etc.].
- Extent:
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- 152 leaves : paper ; 208 x 137 (150-160 x 90) mm bound to 208 x 142 mm
- Subject:
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- Food—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800
- Geometry—Early works to 1800
- Hadith—Texts—Early works to 1800
- Hadith (Shiites)—Texts—Early works to 1800
- Islamic law—Early works to 1800
- Qiblah—Early works to 1800
- Shīʻah—Early works to 1800
- Shīʻah—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
- Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
- Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton
- diagrams
- Blind tooled bindings
- Abstract:
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- Collection of Shiʻite texts.
- Provenance:
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- On leaf 19a, note dated Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1155 H [February 1743].
- Created:
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- 1717-01-01T00:00:00Z/1718-12-31T23:59:59Z
- Extent:
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- 152 leaves : paper ; 208 x 137 (150-160 x 90) mm bound to 208 x 142 mm