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Subject(s)

• Muslim scholars—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic law—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Scribe

• Ḥujāwī, Aḥmad, active 18th century [Browse]

Related name

• حجاوي، احمد، active 18th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 909H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A work on the characteristics of the founders of the four rites of Islam.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes. On the colophon page is a note of collation.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 127 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 25 lines per page.
• Description: Headings, overlining, overwriting and other use of red ; watermarks (grapes, crown) ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed Thursday 29 Muḥarram 1192 by Aḥmad al-Ḥujāwī al-Ḥanbalī (fol. 127a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم لا اله الا انت الحمد لمن بعث النبيين مبشرين ... اما بعد فيقول احقر الورى واذل الفقرا مرعى بن يوسف المقدسى الحنرلى ان الله سبحانه وتعالى قد اوجد هذا العالم ...
• Colophon: وکان الفراغ من تعليق هذه النسخة نهار الخميس وقت الظهر سلخ تسعة وعشرين من شهر المحرم سنة الف وماية اثنين وتسعين من الهجرة. على يد الفقرالعباد واحوجهم الى رحمة ربه يوم القتاد فقير رحمة ربه العلي احمد الحجاوي الحنبلي غفرالله له ولوالديه ولمشايخه ولکل المسلمين اجمعين امين امين امين

Binding note

Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and brown marbled paper. Yellow paper pastedowns.

Provenance

Ownership signatures: ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī dated Shawwāl 1144 (upper pastedown); Aḥmad ibn ʻUthmān dated 1161 (lower pastedown). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1848.
• Khulāṣat al-Athar IV, p. 359.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

كتاب تنوير بصائر المقلدين في مناقب الائمة المجتهدين

OCLC

1340424639

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