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Subject(s)

• Polemics—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islam—Apologetic works—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islam—Relations—Christianity [Browse]
• Conversion—Islam [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 973H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

An anti-Christian polemical treatise by a convert, originally a Franciscan friar from Majorca.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• The text proper starts on fol. 2b, fol. 1b-2a being a preface presenting the text to Sulṭān Aḥmad Khān (Aḥmad I, 14th Ottoman Sulṭān, 1590-1617) and a description of contents by Abū al-Ghayth Muḥammad al-Qashshāshī, written in the same hand. Long note in the margin of fol. 21a-b.
• Collation: Paper, fol. 32 ; 1-3¹⁰ 4² ; horizontal catchword on the verso of each leaf ; collation notes in the same hand ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 21 long lines per page.
• Description: Written in medium small casual script in black ink, with some use of red. Glazed European paper with watermark. Collation notes in the same hand.
• Origin: Copied by Muḥammad ibn Salāmah in Rajab 1292 (colophon, fol. 32a).
• Incipit: بسم ... وبه ثقتي وصلي الله علي ... تسليما يقول الفقير الي ربه سبحانه وتعالي ابو الغيث محمد القشاشي لما نظرت هذا التاليف العجيب وعلمت ما فيه من الاسلوب ... [2ب] ... وسلم قال المولف رحمه الله تعالي الحمد لله الذي خصنا بخير الاديان و جعلنا من امة الفرقان
• Explicit: و انا ارجو ان اجمع لبشارات جميع الانبياء به كتابا مفردا لذلك علي وجه التفصيل وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل ولاحول ولا قوة الا بالله العلي العظيم وصلي الله علي سيدنا محمد وعلي اله وصحبه وسلم

Binding note

Unbound.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1521

Other format(s)

• Also available in microfilm.
• Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Tuḥfat al-adīb fī al-radd ʻalá ahl al-ṣalīb
• تحفة الاديب في الرد على اهل الصليب
• تحفة الاريب في الرد على اهل الصليب

Title from beginning of text proper (fol. 3a, l. 16)

• Tuḥfat al-arīb fī al-radd ʻalá ahl al-ṣalīb

OCLC

67612559

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