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Subject(s)

• Commerce—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Commercial law (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Economics—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Faith (Islam)—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• God (Islam)—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Interest (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic ethics—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Pillars of Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Sales (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Sunnites—Doctrines—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Worship (Islam)—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Birgivî Mehmet Efendi approximately 1522-1573—Ṭarīqah al-Muḥammadīyah [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Contains

• İsa Efendi. Risale fi bey ve şira. [Browse]
• Ahmet el-Hüseyni el-Manisavi. Kitab ül-itikad. [Browse]
• Birgivı̂ Mehmet Efendi, approximately 1522-1573. Ṭarīqah al-Muḥammadīyah. Selections. Ottoman Turkish. [Browse]
• Maǧnisavi, Ahmet. Şerh-i risale-yi akaid. [Browse]
• Nasafī, ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad, 1068?-1142. ʻAqāʼid. Ottoman Turkish. [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of several works on the principles of Islamic faith and Islamic law.

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Title from fol. 1a (dated 1161 (1748)?).
• Fol. 1a has a list of months below the title in a different hand. A couple of inverted inscriptions in large naskh (verses) between texts 3 and 4 on fol. 74b-75a. Fol. 107a has a short inscription about the 28 prophets in the Qur'an. Fol. 144b contains a whole page of text, again on prescriptions of faith, which looks like a misplaced part of a larger work (similar in style to text 6). Two inverted inscriptions (one of them al-Fātiḥah) on fol. 145b.
• Origin: [Treatise on the principles of piety] signed by the scribe: Mehmet bin Mustafa [from ?] (colophon, fol. 106b) -- [Treatise on trade ethics] Dated 1140 (colophon, fol. 144a). All texts are written in same style and similar hand, and most are written continuously (i.e. one ends and next one begins on same page), so they are possibly all by the same scribe and this date refers to the completion of the entire collection.
• Layout: 19 lines per page.
• Description: Partially rubricated ; three different types of glazed European paper.
• Explicit: [رسالة في بيع وشراء] فلا يجوز وان كان كيلا بكيل هداية والدقيق با السويق مطلقا ... وعندهما يجوز هدايه تمت -- [كتاب الاعتقاد] شرح مقاصد وشرح موافق وشرح عقايد وبونلرك امثال كتب معتبره در مراجعت ايله معلوم اولور -- [شرح رسالهء عقائد] بو شرحك مأخذ كتب معتبره در مراجعت ايله معلوم اولور بو حقير پر تقصير دخى اخواندن خير دعاء نياز ايدر ... خاتمه ميسر ايليه تمت -- [Treatise on the principles of piety] بو ليقى الله تعالى هدايتنى وتوفقنى تقدير اتمش اوله ايدى امين يا رب العالمين لا حول ولا قوة الا بمعونتك وانت العلى العظيم تمت نسخت العظيم -- [رسالهء مذاهب] انلرك پاطل سوزلرينه قولق طوتوب دكلميه لر محبة الحق على الحق اجمعين هى كتاب رب العالمين وسنت سيد المرسلين تمت -- [رسالهء علم الحال] وپيغمپرلردن هر كلن نسيه پيغمپرلرك مرادى اوزره ايناندوم اللهم احفظنا من الكفر بحروة خاتم الانبياء والمرسلين والحمد رب العالمين فى بيان الربو او البيع الفاسد -- [Treatise on trade ethics] البته انده ربا بولنوب حرام اولمق مقرر در الصور للمذكور كلها تمثيل دون تخصيص اعوذ بالله تعالى من عال الذي يخالف الشرع ... والله تعالى اعلم بالصواب تمت الرساله بعون الله الملك الوهاب
• Incipit: [رسالة في بيع وشراء] الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على سيدنا محمد وآله اجمعين وبعد مسآئل بيعيه نك اولكى سى كيل اله ووزن ايله -- [كتاب الاعتقاد] الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على سيد المريلسن وعلى آله واصحابه اجمعين وبعد فيقول افقر الورى الى الله الغنى الاعلى احمد الحسينى المغنسوي المعلم فى مكتب بناه السلطان سليمان خان -- [شرح رسالهء عقائد] الحمد يا من بيده ملكوت كل شئ ولك الشكر يا من من عنده ابتداء كل حي والصلوة ... اما بعد فيقول افقر المخلوقين واضعف الموجودين احمد الحسينى المغنسوي المعلم فى مكتب السلطان سليمان -- [Treatise on the principles of piety] ظاهر بو در كه علم تقواي وسيله در زيرا سلف وخلف تقوى علم سز اولماز -- [رسالهء مذاهب] الحمد لله رب العالمين ... وبعد مخفي اولميه كم بو رساله شيخ نجم الدين همر النسفي ... مذاهب بياننده تصنيف ايلدكلري رساله دن ترجمه اولنمشدر -- [رسالهء علم الحال] الحمد لله على نعمآك ... اما بعد اي اخوان مؤمنين وخلان مسلمين بو عبد فقير وذليل المحتاج الى رحمت ربه الجليل -- [Treatise on trade ethics] الحمد لله الذي جعلنا على دين الاسلام ... وبعد ما وجب علينا زمانمز آخر شره ايريشب هر حالده حرامدن وىيادن اجتناب اولنميوب

Binding note

Brown, panelled leather with no pasteboard. Wide blind tooling in the centre of upper and lower covers separating the covers into two panels. Deep blind roll tooled in several places across the upper cover: one running parallel to the spine, and three forming loops along the fore edge of the cover. The leather of the cover is completely split in the place of the first roll close to the spine. Pastedowns in cream paper.

Language note

In Ottoman Turkish.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1b-26a: Hādhā Risālah fī bayʻ wa-shirāʼ / ṣannafahu ʻĪsá Afandī. A treatise on the prescriptions of Islamic law regarding trade and commercial transactions.
• 2. fol. 26a-62b: Kitab ül-itikad. A treatise on the basic principles of Islamic faith, based on Birgivî's al-Ṭarīqah al-Muḥammadīyah.
• 3. fol. 63b-74a: [Şerh-i risale-yi akaid]. A treatise on faith, apparently a commentary on another treatise of the same subject (see beginning of text on fol. 63b). [The style and contents of the work are very similar to those in the preceding work, based on Birgivî's al-Ṭarīqah al-Muḥammadīyah (see text 2 of the collection), so possibly linked to that?].
• 4. fol. 75b-106b: [Treatise on the principles of piety]. A treatise on piety in Islam.
• 5. 107b-116a: Risale-yi mezahip. Ottoman translation of Nasafi's treatise on the basic tenets of Islamic belief ("al-ʻAqāʼid al-Nasafīyah"?).
• 6. 116a-138b: Risale-yi ilmihal ala el-nisa ve el-rical. A treatise on the basic tenets of Islamic faith, including worship and prayer.
• 7. 138b-144a: [Treatise on trade ethics]. A short treatise on trade in Islam, particularly the question of interest.

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Provenance

Statement of vakıf in the name of Hacı Ali, the son of Kazancı Hacı Hasan, dated 29th of Ramaḍān 1270 (1854), on fol. 145b.

Source acquisition

Gift; Leland F. Price, 1999/01/02 (1999-18).

Other title(s)

• Treatise on piety.
• Risale-yi ilmihal ala el-nisa ve el-rical.
• Treatise on trade ethics.
• Hādhā Risālah fī bayʻ wa-shirāʼ.
• Risale-yi mezahip.

OCLC

159937640

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