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الصوائق
al-Ṣawāʼiq.
Author
Ibn Ḥajar al-Haythamī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1503-approximately 1566
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ابن حجر الهيثمي، احمد بن محمد
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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/Created
[1822]
Description
194 leaves: paper ; 207 x 145 (158 x 105) mm. bound to 207 x 150 mm.
Availability
Available Online
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Notes
Special Collections - Manuscripts
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2304Y
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Subject(s)
Shīʿah
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Controversial literature
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Early works to 1800
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Islam
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Doctrines
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Early works to 1800
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Imamate
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Early works to 1800
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Islamic sects
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Early works to 1800
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Manuscripts, Arabic
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New Jersey
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Summary note
Treatise in three introductions, ten chapters (bāb) and a conclusion on the legitimacy of the first four caliphs, written in response to the growing number of Shīʻīs and Rāfiḍah in Medina in Ramaḍān 950 [1543] (see beginning of text, fol. 1b-2a).
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from colophon (fol. 193b). The name of the author also appears in the colophon.
19 lines per page. Written in clear small naskh in black ink with use of red. Majority of quaternions. Reading statements on the margins throughout. Fewer corrections on the margins from fol. 20b on. Two slips of paper with inscriptions, between fol. 2 and 3 and fol. 192 and 193 respectively. Small piece of paper with seal between fol. 31 and 32. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "ʻAqāʼid 20". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "481/2 ḥāʼ".
Collation: Paper, fol. 194 ; 1-23⁸ 24¹⁰ ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
Copy completed on Monday(!) 29 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1237 by Muḥammad al-Sāqī for ʻUmar Bīk Ibn ... Maḥmūd Bāshā (colophon, fol. 193b).
Incipit: الحمد لله الذي اختصّ نبيه محمد ... باصحابه كالنجوم واوجب على الكافة تعظيمهم واعتقاد حقّية ما كانوا عليه ... اما بعد فانّى قد سئلت قديما فى تاليف كتابا يبين حقية خلافة الصديق
Explicit: ومداد كلامتك كلّما ذكرك وذكره الذاكرون وكلّما غفل عن ذكرك وذكره الغافلون والحمد لله ربّ العالمين
Binding note
Red-brown leather for upper and lower covers with similar gold-stamped inner panel with a central mandorla and two pendants on the vertical axis within a frame with corner pieces, and an outer frame made of running patterns and fillets.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 2628
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 388 (1/4)
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 527 (1/4)
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Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
Also available in an electronic version.
Other title(s)
صوائق المحرقة على اهل الرفض والزندقة
Title in Mach, R. Yahuda
Ṣawāʼiq al-muḥriqah ʻalá ahl al-rafḍ wa-al-zandaqah
OCLC
77079837
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