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Subject(s)

• Islamic ethics—History—14th century—Sources [Browse]
• Islamic philosophy—Ethics—History—14th century—Sources [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Related name

• Sijistānī, ʻAbd al-Razzāq Abū al-Ghanāʾim [Browse]
• سجستاني، عبد الرزاق ابو الغنائم [Browse]
• شطي، عبد السلام [Browse]

Former owner

• Shaṭṭī, ʻAbd al-Salām [Browse]

Summary note

Careful copy of a treatise on ethics (ʻilm al-akhlāq), based on Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (see fol. 4, l. 5), comprising an introduction, three maqālāt, and a khātimah (see fol. 5a, l. 8), discussing the various kinds of vice and the way to avoid them, together with a discussion of the various virtues to be attained. Name of author supplied according to GAL (not mentioned in Kashf al-ẓunūn).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 2a.
• Physical description: 13 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink (faded to brown), with use of red for headings, re-inking, and text-stops. Some words are re-written by a later hand in black ink. Diagram on fol. 77a. Soft cream paper, hardly translucid, with pulp visible ; laid lines visible on some leaves. Fol. 1 and 113 are later additions. Occasional marginal annotations by a later hand. The text has been collated. Inscriptions on fol. 112b-113b. Wear, some leaves hardly legible.
• Origin: According to colophon, copied for himself by Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd al-Qāhir ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Shahrazūrī in Irbil, 746 H. (fol. 112a). Collation statement in the name of ʻAbd al-Salām Ibn Shaṭṭī ... al-Ḥanbalī al-Qādirī, in the Jāmiʻ al-Umawī on fol. 113b.
• Incipit: الهم لك الحمد(؟) على ---؟ من ذاتك ومن كل من خصصت بالتبيين لانك انت الملك الحق المبين الباعث لنا منك اليك والمعين ... [3ب] وبعد فاني طالما تشوقت الى ارتقاء مدارج الملكوت واعتلا معارج الجبروت
• Explicit: ويقرآ سبحانه بلسان ديموميته وينشى عن سلطان [---] ان قيموميته كل من عليها فان ويبقى وجهك [---] الجلالة والاكرام والحمد لله رب العالمين

Provenance

• Several ownership statements on fol. 2a, in the name of Abū Bakr ibn Rustam al-Shirwānī (repeated); of Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Aḥmad al-Abarqūhī, dated Damascus, Jumādá al---? -68 (see al-Dawʾ al-lāmiʻ, vol. 7, p. 132, no. 316) ; of Muḥammad al-Ḥbātī , dated Jumādá II 48 ; of Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Shahrazūrī ; of ʻAbd al-Salām Ibn al-marḥūm al-shaykh ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Ibn al-marḥūm al-shaykh Muṣṭafá Ibn al-marḥūm al-shaykh Maḥmūd al-Shaṭṭī al-Ḥanbalī al-Qādirī al-Dimashqī, dated 1280 H. [1863 or 4] ; impression of a large oval stamp in the name of Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī Ibn al-ʻAṭṭār , "khādim al-fiqh wa-al-āthār", dated 1200 H. Several ownership statements on fol. 1a: one in the name of Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd al-Nawawī ; one partially erased in the name of Muḥammad Ṣādiq ---?, dated 126 8 H. Acquired by Robert Garrett from the books of Murād Bey al-Bārūdī, Beirut, 1925.
• Brown paper over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Blind stamped central mandorla and outer border consisting of fillets.
• Several ownership statements on fol. 2a, in the name of Abū Bakr ibn Rustam al-Shirwānī(?) (repeated); of Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Aḥmad al-Abarqūhī, dated Damascus, Jumādá al---? -68 (see al-Dawʾ al-lāmiʻ, vol. 7, p. 132, no. 316) ; of Muḥammad al-Ḥbātī(?), dated Jumādá II 48 ; of Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Shahrazūrī ; of ʻAbd al-Salām Ibn al-marḥūm al-shaykh ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Ibn al-marḥūm al-shaykh Muṣṭafá Ibn al-marḥūm al-shaykh Maḥmūd al-Shaṭṭī al-Ḥanbalī al-Qādirī al-Dimashqī, dated 1280 H. [1863 or 4] ; impression of a large oval stamp in the name of Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī Ibn al-ʻAṭṭār(?), "khādim al-fiqh wa-al-āthār", dated 1200 H. Several ownership statements on fol. 1a: one in the name of Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd al-Nawawī ; one partially erased in the name of Muḥammad Ṣādiq ---?, dated 126(?)8 H. Acquired by Robert Garrett from the books of Murād Bey al-Bārūdī, Beirut, 1925.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1936
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 281/17 ; SN II, 281/17
• Kâtip Çelebi. Kashf al-ẓunūn (ed. Fluegel), vol. II, p. 286

Other title(s)

• تزكية الارواح عن موانع الافلاح
• تزكية الارواح للسجستاني

Title in preamble (fol. 5a, l. 7)

• Tazkiyat al-arwāḥ ʻan mawāniʻ al-aflāḥ

Title from inscription on fol. 1a and tail of text block

• Tazkiyat al-arwāḥ lil-Sijistānī

OCLC

181372341

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