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Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

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• Risālat Ithná ʻasharīyah fī al-ṭahārah.
• al-Lumʻah al-Ḥillīyah fī maʻrifat al-nīyah.
• Risālah fī manāsik al-ḥajj.

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Summary note

Collection of texts on Shiʻite fiqh.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from text 1.
• Physical description: 12-14 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Mild insect damage and staining; leaf 1 is a replacement and detached.
• Origin: Text 4 dated 24 Muḥarram 1086 H [20 April 1675] (leaf 51b); other texts likely completed around the same time.

Binding note

Loose in folder consisting of leather covers with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants and fillets; repaired with cloth spine.

Language note

Arabic.

Contents

• 1. leaves 1b-4b: Risālah fī manāsik al-ḥajj.
• 2. leaves 5a-8b: al-Lumʻah al-Ḥillīyah fī maʻrifat al-nīyah / Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Fahd.
• 3. leaves 9b-24a: Risālat Ithná ʻasharīyah fī al-ḥajj / Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʻĀmilī.
• 4. leaves 24b-51b: Risālat Ithná ʻasharīyah fī al-ṣalāh / Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʻĀmilī.
• 5. leaves 52b-74b: Risālat Ithná ʻasharīyah fī al-ṭahārah / Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʻĀmilī.
• 6. leaves 74b-84b: Risālat Ithná ʻasharīyah fī al-zakāh wa-al-khums / Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʻĀmilī.
• 7. leaves 85a-100b: Risālat Ithná ʻasharīyah fī al-ṣawm / Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʻĀmilī.

Provenance

On leaf 1a, note of sale by ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Muḥammad ʻAlī Dihdashtī, who purchased the manuscript from Muḥammad Jaʻfar ibn Muḥammad Hādī Dihdashtī for 2000 dīnārs.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

611902247

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