Details

Subject(s)

• Islamic law—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Prayer—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Hanafites—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic heresies—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Scribe

• Kurādī, Aḥmad ibn Yaʻqūb, active 14th century [Browse]

Related name

• كرادي، احمد بن يعقوب، active 14th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 931H [Browse]

Contains

• Itqānī, Amīr Kātib ibn Amīr ʻUmar, 1286 or 1287-1356 or 1357. Risālat raddādat al-bidaʻ. [Browse]
• اتقاني، امير كاتب بن امير عمر، 1286 or 1287-1356 or 1357. رسالة ردادة البدع. [Browse]

Summary note

A treatise on technicalities of posture in prayer according to the Ḥanafite school.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes and glosses. Contains a short treatise by the author against certain heresies, entitled Risālat raddādat al-bidaʻ (fol.13b-14b).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 13 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 17-18 lines per page.
• Description: MS in good condition, stained with dampness.
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed Friday 14 al-Muḥarram 766 in Damascus by Aḥmad ibn Yaʻqūb ibn Isḥāq ibn Khawājah Ḥājjī al-Kurādī al-Hādī (fol. 13b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله على نعمايه الصلوة على رسوله محمد ... وبعد يقول العبد الضعيف قوام الدين امير كاتب بن امير عمر العميد القارابى الاتقانى ... تشرفت في دمشق المحروسة ...
• Colophon: نقله لنفسه احمد بن يعقوب بن اسحق بن خواجه حاجى الکرادي الهادي من خط المصنف في يوم الجمعه رابع عشرمن شهرالمحرم سنة ست وستين وسبعمائة بدمشق المحروسة بالخانقاه الشميصاطية رحم الله واقفها والحمد لله وحده وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه اجمعين امين

Binding note

Later limp covering in dark blue paper.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1723.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, pp. 404/5.
• Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 1839, 2027.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Place name(s)

Syria Damascus

OCLC

1340425047

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