Details

Subject(s)

• Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Shīʻah—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 86. [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]

Contains

• ʻĀmilī, Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, 1547-1621. Zubdat al-uṣūl. [Browse]
• عاملي، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين، 1547-1621. زبدة الاصول. [Browse]
• Ibn al-Shahīd al-Thānī, al-Ḥasan, 1551 or 1552-1602 or 1603. Maʻālim al-dīn wa-malādhdh al-mujtahidīn. [Browse]
• ابن الشهيد الثاني، الحسن، 1551 or 1552-1602 or 1603. معالم الدين وملاذ المجتهدين. [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of two texts on Shiʻite fiqh.

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Title from leaves 1a, 58a; also present on partially torn spine labels.
• Layout: 8-14 lines per page.
• Description: Written in black on cream glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Some staining and paper repairs.
• Origin: Likely 17th century.
• Incipit: [معالمالدين] الحمد لله المتعالي في عز جلاله عن مطارح الافهام فلا يحيط بكنهه العارفون

Binding note

Full brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla; brown leather doublures; edges and spine repaired.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Nastaʻlīq

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a-57b: Manāhij Shaykh Bahāʼī / Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʻĀmilī. Treatise on uṣūl al-fiqh, missing the first leaf.
• 2. fol. 58b-185b: Maʻālim al-dīn wa-malādhdh al-mujtahidīn / al-Ḥasan Ibn al-Shahīd al-Thānī. Treatise on Shiʻite fiqh, breaking off in the middle of the ninth maṭlab on ijtihād and taqlīd.

Provenance

Two smudged owner's stamps on leaf 185b.

References

• Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 1613, 598.
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 597 (no. 17); II, 426 (2 : no. 1); SII, 450.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Manāhij Shaykh Bahāʼī.
• مناهج شيخ بهائي.

OCLC

611595179

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