Details

Subject(s)

• Sunnites—Relations—Shīʻah—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic sects—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 971H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A treatise against the heretical sects especially the Shīʻah and its various branches.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. [i]a).
• A few marginal notes and glosses. The work was composed during the reign of Sultan Murād III, 1574-1595. After colophon is a description of the text (fol. 63b) and some inscriptions (fol. 64a-b).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 64 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 19 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; overlining and other use of red ; watermarks (crown-star-crescents other unidentified) ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: Probably from the XVIIth century.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي طلع بلطفه شموس العدل ... واما بعد فان اصول مناهج حبل ... وقواعد شرع سيد المرسلين ...
• Colophon: ونحمد الله سبحانه وتعالى في الاول والاخر ونشکره على الآيه الوارف الوافر ونصلي على النبي محمد سيد الانام عليه افضل الصلاة واکمل السلام وعلى آله الکرام واصحابه العظام وسلم تسليما کثيرًا کثيرًا الى يوم الدين وعلى جميع الانبياء والمرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين تم تم تم

Binding note

Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and yellow paper with black and pink dots. Pink paper pastedowns. Binding includes pieces of printed document issued by Ali Pacha, Grand Admiral of the Ottoman Empire.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1525.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 2135.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Kitāb fī al-radd ʻalá al-rawāfiḍ wa-ʻaqāʼidihim
• كتاب في الرد على الروافض وعقائدهم

OCLC

1340421360

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