Details

Subject(s)

• Islam—Relations—Christianity [Browse]
• Christianity and other religions—Islam [Browse]
• Christianity—Controversial literature [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 975H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

An attack on Christians and Christianity by a convert to Islam.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes. The author states in the preface that he was originally Christian and was later converted to Islam.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 24 + ii ; quires signed: 3-4 [indicating a missing quire] ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 25 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (shield with a face-in-the-moon, double-headed crowned eagle) ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed 19 [Dhū] al-Ḥijjah 1297 (fol. 24b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله الذي فضل دين الاسلام على سائر الاديان ...
• Explicit: تم هذا الكتاب المبارك في يوم الاثنين المبارك الموافق 19 الحجه سنة 97 الف ومايتين 7 سبعه 9 وتسعين والحمد لله وحده وصلي الله علي سيدنا محمد النبي الايى وعلي آله وصحبه وسلم

Binding note

Later? type II (with flap) binding in red leather and purple paper with block-pressed design.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1538.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340421455

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