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Subject(s)

• God (Islam)—Name—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Related work(s)

• Āl Ḥusaynī Nakhaʻī Jazāʼirī Najafī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥusayn, active 17th century. Futūḥāt-i ʻAbbāsī. [Browse]
• آل حسىنى نخعى جزائرى نجفى، محمد بن عبد الحسىن، active 17th century. فتوحات عباسى. [Browse]

Summary note

Treatise on the special characteristics of the divine names, which is an introduction to the author's large chart of divine names, the Futūḥāt-i ʻAbbāsī. On fol. 173a is a jadval of the names of Shāh ʻAbbās. Text is incomplete at end and is followed by a short, anonymous ḥāshiyah, in which the jadval is repeated on fol. 178a.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. ia.
• Ms. erroneously foliated beginning on the second leaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.
• Physical description: 15 lines per page; written in small, elegant nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Fol. 176b-178a written in small naskh, 19 lines per page. Text framed in blue and gold, with outer marginal gold border. Rubrication and catchwords; some marginal notes. Arabic quotations vocalized. Fol. 2-5 loose. Light staining. First folio is somewhat ragged and has been pasted to a heavy sheet of paper.
• Incipit: الحمد لله الواحد الاحد المتفرد بالازل والابد ... اما بعد چنىن گوىد العبد الواثق بالفرد الصمد ابن عبد الحسىن آل حسىنى الجزاىرى النجفى محمد ... که شرف علوم باعتبار معلوماتست علم اسماء مبداء اول عز وجل

Binding note

Half leather with maroon cloth covers; white paper pastedowns and flyleaves.

Language note

Persian.

Contents

• fol. ib-175b: Dībājah-i musammāh bi-Fuṣūl al-najāt va lubāb al-ishārāt
• fol. 176b-178a: Ḥāshiyah fī bayān sabab taqdīm al-asmāʼ al-arbaʻah al-makhṣūṣah ʻalá āyat al-basmalah.

References

Fihrist-i Kitābkhānah-i Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, I, 175 (under Futūḥāt-i ʻAbbāsī)

OCLC

781295288

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