اصول الحكم في نظام العالم ... [الخ.]

Uṣūl al-ḥikam fī niẓām al-ʻālam ... [etc.]

Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[17th century]
Description
227 leaves : paper ; 158-182 x 112-117 (110-140 x 70-80) mm bound to 180 x 125 mm.

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Summary note
A miscellany of Arabic texts on a variety of topics interspersed with fawāʼid consisting of poetry, prayers, quotations and other inscriptions.
Notes
  • Ms. composite codex.
  • Title from introduction of first work (fol. 12b).
  • Marginal notes. Tables of contents (fol. 1a and 123b). Magic square with angel names (fol. 28b). Fawāʼid between the works, including some written in various shapes (fol. 88a-b).
  • Collation: Paper ; fol. 227 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
  • Layout: 11-21 lines per page.
  • Description: Rubricated ; some paper tinted yellow ; watermarks (unidentified circular design; mark topped with a cross; mark topped with a flower; roman-alphabet initials with trefoil) ; MS in fair condition.
  • Origin: [Uṣūl al-ḥikam] Copied Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1004 by Ḥamdān Sarbwāyān (f. 28b) -- [Muḥāḍarāt] Copied 1026 by Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd (f. 87b) -- [Ḥayāt al-arwāḥ] Copied by ʻUmar ibn al-Muṣṭafá (f. 122a)
  • Incipit: [اصول الحكم] حمد لك اللهم مالك الملك -- [محاضرات] بسم ... حمدا اولا واخرا للاول والآخر وشكرا باطنا وظاهرا -- [حياة] بسم ... الحمد لله الذى احيى قلوب العارفين بالحيوة -- [تفسير تبارك] بسم ... تبارك تعالى عما يدرك الحواس -- [حاشية على تفسير] بسم ... قوله سورة الملك وسيمى تبارك ايضا -- [رد على ابن كمال] بسم ... الحمد لله الذي جعل العلم في الدين -- [رسالة على موضع] بسم ... الحمد لله وحده والصلوه ... واما الحاله المقتضة لترك المسند -- [رسالة في كلام مع البيضاوي] بسم ... قال الله تع فلا تجعلوا لله اندادا؟ وانتم تعلمون -- [رسالة على كتاب النكاح] بسم ... الحمد لله المتقدس ذاته الاحدية عن الاكفاء -- [رسالة في جواز] بسم ... الحمد لله وصلى اللع على سيدنا محمد ... قوله فلا يجوز العمل للمقلد -- [رسالة ... بالروح] بسم ... الحمد لله الذى خلق الانسان اطورا نفسا وروحا وجسما -- [رسالة في كلام على المذاهب] بسم ... الحمد لله الذى ذاته غير مشتبه بالجسم -- [رسالة مرتبة في بيان] بسم ... الحمد لله رب العباد منه المبداء واليه المعاد
Binding note
Later? type II (with flap) binding in reddish-brown leather. Stamped mandorla with pendants and cornerpieces filled with gold and red leather inserts. Blind-tooled and gold painted edging. Gold-stamped medallion and blind- and gold-tooled edging on flap. Pink paper pastedowns. Multi-colored endbands.
Contents
  • 1. fol. 1a: [Table of contents]
  • 2. fol. 1b-11a: [Inscriptions] Includes some records of births.
  • 3. fol. 11b-27b: Uṣūl al-ḥikam fī niẓām al-ʻālam / Kāfī al-Āqḥiṣārī. On government.
  • 4. fol. 28a-29a: [Inscriptions]
  • 5. fol. 29b-87b: Muḥāḍarāt Maḥmūd / Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad. A collection of 23 maqālahs debating various subjects of religion, ethics, and morality.
  • 6. fol. 88b-91a: [Miscellany]. Short commentary on al-Fātiḥah, prayer and other inscriptions.
  • 7. fol. 91b- 122a: Ḥayāt al-arwāḥ wa-najāt al-ashbāḥ. On death, the day of judgment, and the lives of several holy men.
  • 8. fol. 122b-124a: [Inscriptions].
  • 9. fol. 124b-130a: Tafsīr Tabārak. Commentary on Juzʼ al-Mulk.
  • 10. fol. 130b-135a: [Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Tafsīr al-Bayḍāwī] / Saʻdī Chalabī. A gloss on al-Bayḍāwī's commentary on on Sūrat al-Mulk (LXVII).
  • 11. fol. 135b-138a: [Extracts and inscriptions]
  • 12. fol. 138b-158b: Radd ʻalá Ibn Kamāl Pāshā bi-mā raddahu ʻalá Ṣadr-al-Sharīʻah fī kitābihi al-Iṣlāḥ wa-al-īḍāḥ. A refutation of the charges which Ibn Kamāl Pāshā brought against Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Awwal and Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Thānī in his work al-Iṣlāḥ wa-al-īḍāḥ. This refutation is probably by Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, known as al-Birkāwī.
  • 13. fol. 158b-159a: [Inscriptions]
  • 14. fol. 159b-170a: Risālah ʻalá mawḍiʻ min al-Miftāḥ. A gloss on Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm, a work on grammar and syntax by al-Sakkākī. References are made in the gloss to the commentaries on the same work by Saʻd al-Dīn al-Taftāzānī and al-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī.
  • 15. fol. 171b-173a: [Inscriptions]
  • 16. fol. 173b-182b: Risālah fī al-kalām maʻa al-Bayḍāwī. A gloss on a section of Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-taʼwīl, the commentary on the Qurʼan by al-Bayḍāwī dealing with Sūrah II.
  • 17. fol. 182b-184a: [Inscriptions]
  • 18. fol. 184b-200a: [Risālah ʻalá kitāb al-nikāḥ min al-Hidāyah]. A gloss by Muḥammad Bey on the section on matrimony in al-Hidāyah, which is a commentary by al-Farghānī al-Marghīnānī on his own compendium of law and jurisprudence entitled Bidāyat al-Mubtadī.
  • 19. fol. 200a-201a: [Inscriptions]
  • 20. fol. 201b-205b: Risālah fī jawāz al-ʻamal li-al-muqallid bi-mā lā riwāyah la-hu ʻan imāmih. On analogy in jurisprudence.
  • 21. fol. 205b-208a: [Inscriptions]. Poetry.
  • 22. fol. 208b-211b: Risālah yataʻallaqa bi-al-rūḥ wa-al-jasad. Theological treatise on the soul and the body by Ibn Kamāl Pāshā.
  • 23. 211b-216a: Risālah fī al-kalām ʻalá al-madhāhib fī taʼlīf al-jism. Philosophical treatise on the body by Ibn Kamāl Pāshā.
  • 24. fol. 216a-225b: Risālah murattabah fī bayān al-maʻād al-jismānī. On bodily resurrection by Ibn Kamāl Pāshā.
  • 25. fol. 227a: [Inscription]
Provenance
Seal impression (fol. 2a). Ownership signature: Ibrāhīm al-Ṣūfiyawī? (fol. 123a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
  • Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 2016.
  • Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 339.
Other format(s)
Also available in an electronic version.
Other title(s)
  • Tafsīr Sūrat al-Mulk.
  • تفسير سورة الملك.
  • Risālah ʻalá mawḍiʻ min al-Miftāḥ.
  • رسالة على موضع من المفتاح.
  • Risālah fī al-kalām maʻa al-Bayḍāwī.
  • رسالة في الكلام مع البيضاوي.
  • Risālah fī jawāz al-ʻamal lil-muqallid bi-mā lā riwāyah lahu ʻan imāmih.
  • رسالة في جواز العمل للمقلد بما لا رواية له عن امامه.
Title on lower edge of text block
  • Majmūʻah ... rasāʼil
OCLC
1340424568
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