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Subject(s)

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

Related name

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

Contains

• Qummī, Muḥammad Ṭāhir, -1686 or 1687. Arbaʻīn fī imāmat al-aʼimmah al-ṭāhirīn. [Browse]
• قمي، محمد طاهر اربعين في امامة الائمة الطاهرين [Browse]
• Suyūṭī, 1445-1505. Itqān fī ʻulūm al-Qurʼān. Selections. [Browse]
• سيوطي اتقان في علوم القرآن [Browse]
• Ibn Ḥajar al-Haythamī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1503-approximately 1566. Ṣawāʻiq al-muḥriqah. Selections. [Browse]
• ابن حجر الهيثمي، احمد بن محمد صوائق المحرقة [Browse]
• Jurjānī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, al-Sayyid al-Sharīf, 1340-1413. Sharḥ al-Mawāqif. selections. [Browse]
• جرجاني، علي بن محمد، السيد الشريف شرح المواقف [Browse]

Summary note

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

Notes

• 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).

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.

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].

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Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Yahuda, 2608, 3039

Other format(s)

• Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
• Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Arbaʻīn fī imāmat al-Ṭāhirīn.
• اربعين في امامة الطاهرين

OCLC

76893213

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