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Subject(s)

• Muḥammad Prophet -632—Family—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Muḥammad Prophet -632—Genealogy—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Sufism—Doctrines—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islam and politics—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Political science—Islamic countries—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Education of princes—Islamic countries—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic ethics—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Hadith—Texts—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1328Y [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Gold tooled bindings [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• blind stamping [Browse]
• gold tooling [Browse]

Contains

• Müstakimzade Süleyman Sadeddin, 1718-1787. Shifāʼ al-ṣudūr lil-nasl al-nūr. [Browse]
• مستقيم زاده سليمان سعد الدين. شفاء الصدور للنسل النور [Browse]
• Müstakimzade Süleyman Sadeddin, 1718-1787. ʻAqīdat al-Ṣūfīyah. [Browse]
• مستقيم زاده سليمان سعد الدين. عقيدة الصوفية. [Browse]
• Müstakimzade Süleyman Sadeddin, 1718-1787. Dustūr al-ʻamal shahānah. [Browse]
• مستقيم زاده سليمان سعد الدين. دستور العمل شهانة. [Browse]
• Müstakimzade Süleyman Sadeddin, 1718-1787. Maqūlāt dawrīyah. [Browse]
• مستقيم زاده سليمان سعد الدين. مقولات دورية. [Browse]
• Müstakimzade Süleyman Sadeddin, 1718-1787. Risālah fī al-wizārah wa-adābihā. [Browse]
• مستقيم زاده سليمان سعد الدين. رسالة في الوزارة وادابها [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of 5 treatises on different subjects by Müstakimzade, most of them contemporary and dated 1202 [1787 or 1788].

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Title from fol. 1a.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 83 ; catchwords.
• Layout: 23-31 lines per page.
• Description: Written in small nashaʻlīq or in other small scripts in black ink ; some texts rubricated ; most of the sheets are loose and there is some worm damage to the paper, particularly in text 5.
• Decoration: [Risālah fī al-wizārah wa-adābihā] Text written within a gold leaf frame outlined in black ink.
• Origin: [Shifāʼ al-ṣudūr] Copied Shawwāl 1202 -- [ʻAqīdat al-Ṣūfīyah] Copied 15 Rabiʻ al-Awwal 1202 by Aḥmad Ḥusām al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad -- [Dustūr al-ʻamal] Copied 1202 -- [Maqūlāt dawrīyah] Copied Shawwāl 1199.
• Incipit: [شفاء الصدور] الحمد لله على فضله وكرمه والشكر على لطفه ونعمه - [عقيدة الصوفية] حمدنا مبسملا ربنا الذي خثر لواء الادآب بالادب - [دستور] قبضهء شمشير كلام قديم حمدا لك اللهم مالك الملك فى اخرة والاولى - [مقولات دورية] باسمه سبحانه تعالى شانه عما شانه - [رسالة في الوزارة وادابها] بنام انكه شا... نه محتاج ظهير ونه وزيرست
• Explicit: [شفاء الصدور] اللهم صلى على حبيبك وآله اصولا وفروعا وسلم كثيرا كثيرا كثيرا - [عقيدة الصوفية] بجاه حبيبك فصل اللهم على سيد المرسلين وسلم وعلى سائر النبيين وآلهم اجمعين - [دستور] صلوات المعين يا خير المناصرين ويا دليل المتحيرين تمت - [مقولات دورية] بحرمة خير البشر عليه وعلى آله الصلاة والسلام الاكملان امين يا مستعان - [رسالة في الوزارة وادابها] الكرام السلام الى قيام قوايم خيام القيام تمت الرساله

Binding note

Dark burgundy leather. Gold and blind tooled border design on covers made with a gold roll and gold and blind fillets. Central mandorlas on upper and lower covers, blind stamped and painted in gold around the edges. Pastedowns in yellow paper.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Nastaʻlīq.

Contents

• 1. Fol. 2a-6b: Shifāʼ al-ṣudūr lil-nasl al-nūr. Treatise on the genealogy of the Prophet Muhammad.
• 2. Fol. 8a-20b: ʻAqīdat al-Ṣūfīyah. Treatise on Sufi doctrined and beliefs.
• 3. Fol. 24a-39b: Dustūr al-ʻamal shahānah. A treatise on government in Islam.
• 4. Fol. 42a-65b: Maqūlāt dawrīyah. Short collection of hadīth and sayings of scholars on a variety of subjects.
• 5. Fol. 69b-81a: [Risālah fī al-wizārah wa-adābihā]. Treatise on Islamic politics.

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Provenance

• Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
• Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

OCLC

1295447082

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