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Subject(s)

• Islamic ethics [Browse]
• Religious life—Islam [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Second volume of a treatise on Islamic morality and ethics, consisting of a muqaddimah and three bāb; on the three prohibited categories: al-munkar, al-faḥshāʾ, and al-baghy. First leaf is missing.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from spine label.
• On front cover: Label reading "287" in Arabic script.
• Physical description: 20 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; a few marginal notes. Text framed in blue and red with outer marginal red line on fol. 1a-5a; text framed in double blue lines on fol. 5b. Missing first leaf. Light staining and smudging; a few leaves loose.
• Origin: Text completed at the beginning of Rabīʻ I 1232 H. [January 1817]; this copy completed by Muḥammad Riz̤ā ibn al-Ḥājj Muḥammad Taqī al-Tustarī on 2 Rabīʻ I 1232 H. [20 January 1817] (fol. 243b).

Binding note

Full reddish-brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, corner designs, and fillets. Spine repaired.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

Owner's stamp on fol. 243b. Three owner's stamps and owner's note dated 1233 H. [1817 or 18] on fol. 244a.

References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), XVI, 90

OCLC

739098262

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