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Subject(s)

• Death—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic law—Interpretation and construction [Browse]
• Prayer—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Shīʻah—Customs and practices—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of texts and fragments on Shiite rituals for the dead, prayer, and uṣūl al-fiqh.

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• On front cover: Label reading "385" in Arabic script.
• Physical description: Varying lines per page; written in a variety of scripts in black, mostly on glazed, laid European paper. First two leaves are blue. Text 8 on tan and yellow glazed, laid Arabic paper. Most leaves measure 151 x 88 mm; fol. 21-28 measure 151 x 108 mm. Rubrication and catchwords. Fol. 1b, 3a, 19a, 21b, 29b, 41a-41b blank. Marginal damp staining; heavy water damage to lower spine which has eaten away the paper, causing slight loss of text on a few pages. Fol. 30 torn and repaired, with loss of last line of text. Text 8 in poor condition, with some insect damage and an ink stain, both of which have caused some loss of text on the first and last few leaves.
• Incipit (text 8, as extant): شود واجب بود تىمم بدل وضو ىا بدل غسل [...]
• Incipit (text 2): الحمد لله الذى جعل الشرع دلىل على العمل ... اما بعد چنىن گوىد احوج بندگان خدا و افقر خلق خداوند ىکتا محمد بن جعفر

Binding note

Limp black leather; lower spine and part of lower cover missing due to water damage.

Language note

Persian and Arabic.

Contents

• 1. fol. 2a-2b: [Extract concerning marriage in Persian].
• 2. fol. 3b-18b: Muntahá al-amal rajāʾan min Allāh an yahdī bihi al-ṭālibīn ilá aḥsan al-ʻamal / Muḥammad ibn Jaʻfar. Treatise on rituals performed for the dead, consisting of a muqaddimah, four maṭlab, and a khātimah; incomplete at end. Persian.
• 3. fol. 19a-29a: [Extracts on uṣūl al-fiqh: al-istiqrāʾ, wurūd al-amr baʻda al-ḥaẓar, istiṣḥāb al-ḥāl]. Arabic.
• 6. fol. 30a: [Magic squares].
• 7. fol. 30b-40b: [Extract from a Persian commentary on an Arabic text on prayer].
• 8. fol. 42a-92a: [Persian text on prayer]. Incomplete at beginning and end.

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OCLC

795131279

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