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Subject(s)

• Food—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Geometry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Hadith—Texts—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Hadith (Shiites)—Texts—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic law—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Qiblah—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Shīʻah—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Shīʻah—Doctrines—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 151 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• diagrams [Browse]

Contains

• ʻĀmilī, Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, 1547-1621. Risālat al-iʻtiqādāt. [Browse]
• عاملي، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين، 1547-1621. رسالة الاعتقادات. [Browse]
• ʻĀmilī, Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, 1547-1621. Risālah fī taḥqīq al-qiblah. [Browse]
• عاملي، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين، 1547-1621. رسالة في تحقيق القبلة. [Browse]
• ʻĀmilī, Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, 1547-1621. Risālah fī taḥrīm dhabāʼiḥ ahl al-kitāb. [Browse]
• عاملي، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين، 1547-1621. رسالة في تحريم ذبائح اهل الكتاب. [Browse]
• Ḥurr al-ʻĀmilī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, 1624-1693. Bidāyat al-hidāyah. [Browse]
• حر العاملي، محمد بن الحسن، 1624-1693. بداية الهداية. [Browse]
• Ḥurr al-ʻĀmilī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, 1624-1693. Fuṣūl al-muhimmah fī uṣūl al-aʼimmah. [Browse]
• حر العاملي، محمد بن الحسن، 1624-1693. فصول المهمة في اصول الائمة. [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of Shiʻite texts.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from text 1.
• Physical description: 17-18 lines per page; written in medium naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Text 3 in nastaʻliq with elements of shikastah. Rubrication and catchwords. Lower corners and outer edge moldered; marginal damp-staining.
• Origin: Text 4, 1130 H [1717 or 1718] (leaf 18b). Text 5, the second third of Jumādá I 1130 H [April 1718], by Ibn Ḥāfiẓ ʻAbd al-Laṭīf Muḥammad ʻAlī al-Rāzī (leaf 65a). Text 7, Ṣafar (leaf 151a). Remaining texts likely completed by the same scribe around the same time.
• Incipit: [رسالة الاعتقادات] الحمد لله على آلائه ... وبعد نحن معاشر الشيعة الاثنى عشرية انما اخذنا اصولنا الدينية وفروعنا الملية -- [رسالة في تحقيق القبلة] اما بعد الحمد و الصلوة فىقول ... ان تحقىق حقىقة جهة القبلة -- [فصل در ذکر صورت] فصل در ذکر صورت گر بر سبىل اجمال صور متصور در ضرب -- [رسالة في تحريم] الحمد لله على جزىل افضاله -- [بداية الهداية] الحمد لله ... وبعد فيقول ... قد التمس منى جماعة من الاخوان -- [الصحائف الاربعون الالهية] عجبت لمن اىقن بالموت

Binding note

Limp black leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants and blind-tooled fillets. Spine repaired with cloth.

Language note

Arabic and Persian.

Contents

• 1. leaves 1b-4b: [Risālat al-iʻtiqādāt] / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī. Short treatise on Shiʻite doctrine.
• 2. leaves 4b-8b: Risālah fī taḥqīq al-qiblah / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī. Treatise on determining the direction of the qiblah.
• 3. leaves 9b-13b: Faṣl dar z̲ikr-i ṣūrat. Extract on geometry from an unidentified mathematics text, with diagrams in the margins.
• 4. leaves 13b-18b: [Risālah fī taḥrīm dhabāʼiḥ ahl al-kitāb] / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī. Treatise discussing the prohibition on the meat of the Ahl al-Kitāb.
• 5. leaves 19b-65a: Bidāyat al-hidāyah / Ḥurr al-ʻĀmilī. Treatise on religious duties and prohibitions.
• 6. leaves 65b-73b: [al-Ṣaḥāʼif al-arbaʻūn al-ilāhīyah]. Forty ḥadīth qudsī, supposedly from the Tawrāh according to the introduction; text breaks off in the middle of the 35th ḥadīth.
• 7. leaves 74a-152a: [al-Fuṣūl al-muhimmah fī uṣūl al-aʼimmah] / Ḥurr al-ʻĀmilī. Hadiths on legal topics attributed to the Shiʻite imams, particularly Jaʻfar al-Ṣādiq. Missing a few leaves at the beginning (abwāb al-wuḍūʼ begin on leaf 74b). Followed by prayers in Arabic on leaves 151b-152a.

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Provenance

On leaf 19a, note dated Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1155 H [February 1743].

References

• Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 125, 382, 1162, 1172, 1379.
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 546 (no. 3); SII, 578 (3: no. 3); SII, 597 (no. 27)

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Faṣl dar z̲ikr-i ṣūrat.
• فصل در ذکر صورت.
• Ṣaḥāʼif al-arbaʻūn al-ilāhīyah.
• صحائف الاربعون الالهية.
• Iʻtiqādīyah.
• اعتقادية.
• Risālah fī taḥqīq jihat al-qiblah.
• رسالة في تحقيق جهة القبلة.

OCLC

430985810

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