Details

Subject(s)

• Islam—Miscellanea [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Trivia and miscellanea [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of the author's responses to questions concerning a wide variety of religious subjects, such as polytheism, worship, pilgrimage to shrines, religious innovations, etc. Compiled by the author's student, Aḥmad Allāh ibn Dalīl Allāh al-Ṣiddīqī al-Anāmī, in 1245 H [1829 or 1830] (leaf 3a).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from leaf 3a, lines 2-3.
• Physical description: 4-19 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq and shikastah in black on cream glazed, laid Arabic paper. Catchwords; Arabic quotations in naskh. Insect damage and mild staining.
• Origin: 5 Shawwāl 1246 H [19 March 1831] (leaf 63a).

Binding note

Rebound in cloth.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

Acquired from Widgery, Cambridge, 1925.

Source acquisition

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

References

Moghadam, M. et al. Garrett coll., 112

Other title(s)

• Miʾat masāʾil fī taḥṣīl al-faḍāʾil bi-al-adillah al-sharʻīyah wa-tark al-umūr al-manhīyah
• مائة مسائل في تحصيل الفضائل بالادلة الشرعية وترك الامور المنهية

OCLC

851761614

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