Details

Subject(s)

• Shaykhī—Doctrines [Browse]
• Shaykhī—Texts [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Short treatise on the principles of religion, comprising an introduction, five chapters (bāb) - tawḥīd, ʻadl, nubuwwah, imāmah, maʻād -, and a conclusion.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from preamble of text (first unumbered fol. b). The name of the author appears at the beginning of the text.
• Physical description: 15 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. European cream paper, with watermark; glossy; frame-ruled. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Last fol. (fol. 30 in the modern foliation, is a added blank leaf). Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first fol.).
• Origin: According to colophon, copied by Muḥammad Ḥusayn (or Ḥasan) Ibn Muḥammad Jaʻfar ...?, on 5 Ṣafar 1253 [May 11, 1837] (fol. 29b).
• Incipit: الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على محمد وآله الطاهرين اما بعد فيقول العبد المسكين احمد بن زين الدين الاحسائى انه قد التمس منى بعض الاخوان الذين يجب طاعتهم ان اكتب لهم رسالة فى بعض ما يجب على المكلفين من معرفت اصول الدين اعنى التوحيد والعدل والنبوة والامامة والمعاد وما يلحق بها بالدليل
• Explicit: والرضاء فى كل حال بقدره وقضائه فانه ولى كل خير وصلى الله على محمد واله الطاهرين

Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 2612
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 485/10

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

190821930

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