Details

Subject(s)

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

Summary note

Jīlānī's comprehensive treatise covering Islamic ethics, practices and ritual, and Sufism.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 6b.
• Copied by ʻAbd al-Karīm bin Mullā Ṭāhā (al-Hindī Baghdādī) and completed on the 18th of Rabīʻ al-Thānī 1131 (1719) -- colophon (fol. 194b).
• 25 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Text within a double line frame in brown ink. Catchwords on the verso of each folio. Foliation in Arabic numerals in black ink in the top right corner of the verso of each leaf. Foliation in pencil in Western numerals. Ff. 3b-6a have a table of contents outlined in red ink and filled in black and red ink. Glazed European paper. Most leaves are loose.
• Incipit: قال الشيخ الامام العالم العارف ... اما بعد فقد الح على بعض الاصحاب وشدد في الخطاب
• Explicit: وقيل ان اطلب الله بالصدق اعطاك مراة يتصر فيها كل شيء من عجايب الدنيا والاخرة

Binding note

Brown leather with envelope flap. Panel design on covers, made with roll and fillets around borders, central mandorla with two pendants along the vertical axis, and corner pieces, all of them blind stamped and used to be covered in gold leaf which is now missing. Same design on the envelope flap. Blind roll and fillets on the fore-edge flap. Lining to the envelope flap and pastedowns in yellow paper. Lining to the fore edge flap in brown leather.

Language note

Arabic.

Provenance

Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 2677.
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 561 (1)
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 778

Other format(s)

• Microfilm available for reproduction.
• Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

123499174

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