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Subject(s)

• Islam—Customs and practices [Browse]
• Islamic ethics—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Muslims—Conduct of life—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Religious life—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Sufism—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Contains

• ʻAbd al-Vahhāb ibn Valī Allāh. Kifāyat al-muʾminīn. [Browse]
• عبد الوهاب بن ولى الله. کفاىت المؤمنىن. [Browse]
• Ghazzālī, 1058-1111. Ayyuhā al-walad. Persian. [Browse]
• غزالي، 1058-1111. ايها الولد. فارسي. [Browse]
• Hamadhānī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, 1314-1385. Dah qāʻidah. [Browse]
• همذانى، على بن محمد، 1314-1385. ده قاعده. [Browse]
• Hamadhānī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, 1314-1385. Hamadānīyah. [Browse]
• همذانى، على بن محمد، 1314-1385. همدانيه. [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of religious and Sufi texts.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Collective title from text 1, also on cover.
• Physical description: 10 lines per page; written in shikastah in black on blue machine-made paper. Rubrication in red, orange and yellow; catchwords. Arabic quotations vocalized, in naskh and overlined in red. Mild staining. In excellent condition.
• Origin: Text 1 dated 21 Jumādá II 1265 H [14 May 1849] in Barūdah, by Munshī ʻAẓīm Allāh Khān (leaf 58a). Text 2 dated 9 Jumādá II 1265 H [2 May 1849] in Barūdah, apparently by the same scribe (leaf 80a). Remaining two texts likely completed shortly thereafter by the same scribe.
• Incipit (text 1): الحمد لله ... بدان اسعدک الله تعالى فى الدارىن که ... [؟] فقه بذکور است هر که فراىض نماز
• Incipit (text 2): الحمد لله ... اما بعد بدانکه ىکى از شاگردان خواجه امام حجت الاسلام زىن الدىن ابو حامد محمد بن محمد بن محمد الغزالى الطوسى قدس سره بعد از آنکه در خدمت وى سالها تحصىل کرده بود
• Incipit (text 3): حمد و ثنائى نامتناهي پروردگاريرا كه استحكام قواعد اسلام را بمنهاج طالبان سعادت ملكوتى گردانيده
• Incipit (text 4): شاه راه شريعت محمدى و مسالك طريقت احمدى بر سالكان بيابان طريقت و روندگان ميدان حقيقت

Binding note

Contemporary half leather with marbled paper covers.

Language note

Persian.

Contents

• 1. 45W, leaves 1b-58a: Kifāyat al-muʾminīn / ʻAbd al-Vahhāb ibn Valī Allāh al-Muttaqī [?]. Treatise on the basic religious duties of Muslims. Title from colophon on leaf 58a.
• 2. 46W, leaves 60b-80a: [Translation of Ayyuhā al-walad] / al-Ghazzālī. Persian translation of the author's well-known treatise on spiritual life.
• 3. 46W, leaves 81b-87b: [Dah qāʻidah / ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Hamadhānī]. Short treatise on Sufi topics. Title from Marʻashī catalog.
• 4. 46W, leaves 88a-92b: [Hamadānīyah / ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Hamadhānī]. Mystic interpretation of "Hamadān" and "hamah dān." Title from Marʻashī catalog.

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Provenance

Acquired from Widgery, Cambridge, 1925.

Source acquisition

Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.

References

• Moghadam, M. et al. Garrett coll., 89, 139
• Fihrist-i nuskhahʹhā-yi khaṭṭī-i Kitābkhānah-ʾi ʻUmūmī-i Ḥaz̤rat-i Āyat Allāh al-ʻUẓmá Najafī Marʻashī (1975-), XX, 113-114; XXXI, 401-402

OCLC

845321147

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