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Subject(s)

• Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Treatise on Sunni doctrine, followed by an unidentified text and hadith.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger; title on spine erroneously given as Tercüme-yi Şerh-i Akaid, and title on fol. 1a adds ... en-Nesefî.
• Ms. erroneously foliated beginning on the third leaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.
• Physical description: 18 lines per page; written in shikastah in black on glazed, laid European paper. Text framed in gold; on fol. 1b-2a each line of text is separated by gold bands, poorly executed. Rubrication and catchwords. Some staining. In good condition.
• Origin: 2 Muḥarram 1152 H [11 April 1739], by ed-Derviş Hüseyin Osman al-Kadirî (fol. 109b).
• Incipit: ربنا لا تزغ قلوبنا بعد اذ هديتنا و هبلنا من لدنك رحمة انك انت الوهاب محامد زاكيات اول مبدء كاينات و موجد مصنوعات جنابنك ابحاف كردهء معلا ساحهء تقديسي اولمغه شايان و حقيقتدر

Binding note

European-style full green leather with gold tooling on spine; marbled paper flyleaves and pastedowns.

Language note

Ottoman Turkish.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1b-109b: [Menahic ul-usûl üd-diniye ila mevakıf ıl-makasıd ıl-ayniye] / Abülbakî Ârif Efendi.
• 2. fol. 110a-119b: [Unidentified Turkish text].
• 3. fol. 120a: [Explanation of the hadith "al-īmān Yamān wa-al-ḥikmah Yamānīyah"].
• 4. fol. 122a-122b: [Hadith from ʻAlī on reciting the Fātiḥah]. In Arabic.

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Provenance

On fol. iia, two owner's stamps: one is partially effaced, the other is accompanied by a note by Seyyit Mehmet İrfan. On fol. 1a, a note by Mehmet Esat dated 1215 H [1800 or 1801].

References

VOHD, XIII, pt. 4, no. 122-123

Title given in Büyük lugat ve ansik

• Menâhic ül-usûl üd-diniyye ilâ mivakıf ül-makasıd ül-yakıniyye

OCLC

828147018

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