Details

Subject(s)

• Islam—Relations—Judaism—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islam—Relations—Christianity—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Judaism—Relations—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Christianity and other religions—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Dhimmis (Islamic law)—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. 933H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Colored papers [Browse]

Summary note

A treatise denouncing the employment of Christians and Jews in important offices or dealing with them. Incomplete at beginning and end.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 113 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 11 lines per page.
• Description: Overlining in red ; fol. 93-94 tinted ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: Probably from the XVth century.
• Beginning: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم لرسوله التصديق بنبوته وبذل الطاعة له فيما امر ونهي ونصرته مواررته والحمايه من دونه ...
• Ending: والذي احاذر بعد الموت ادهى وافضع

Binding note

Later type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. No pastedowns. Spine of different leather than covers.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1542

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Manhaj al-ṣawāb fī taḥqīq al-murīd wa-al-murād
• منهج الصواب في تحقيق المريد والمراد

Title from lower edge of text block

• Kitāb Manhaj al-ṣawāb

OCLC

1340424799

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