[رسالة الاعتقادات] ... [الخ].

[Risālat al-iʻtiqādāt] ... [etc.].

Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
  • Arabic
  • Persian
Published/​Created
[1717 or 1718]
Description
152 leaves : paper ; 208 x 137 (150-160 x 90) mm bound to 208 x 142 mm

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    Summary note
    Collection of Shiʻite texts.
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title from text 1.
    • Physical description: 17-18 lines per page; written in medium naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Text 3 in nastaʻliq with elements of shikastah. Rubrication and catchwords. Lower corners and outer edge moldered; marginal damp-staining.
    • Origin: Text 4, 1130 H [1717 or 1718] (leaf 18b). Text 5, the second third of Jumādá I 1130 H [April 1718], by Ibn Ḥāfiẓ ʻAbd al-Laṭīf Muḥammad ʻAlī al-Rāzī (leaf 65a). Text 7, Ṣafar (leaf 151a). Remaining texts likely completed by the same scribe around the same time.
    • Incipit: [رسالة الاعتقادات] الحمد لله على آلائه ... وبعد نحن معاشر الشيعة الاثنى عشرية انما اخذنا اصولنا الدينية وفروعنا الملية -- [رسالة في تحقيق القبلة] اما بعد الحمد و الصلوة فىقول ... ان تحقىق حقىقة جهة القبلة -- [فصل در ذکر صورت] فصل در ذکر صورت گر بر سبىل اجمال صور متصور در ضرب -- [رسالة في تحريم] الحمد لله على جزىل افضاله -- [بداية الهداية] الحمد لله ... وبعد فيقول ... قد التمس منى جماعة من الاخوان -- [الصحائف الاربعون الالهية] عجبت لمن اىقن بالموت
    Binding note
    Limp black leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants and blind-tooled fillets. Spine repaired with cloth.
    Language note
    Arabic and Persian.
    Contents
    • 1. leaves 1b-4b: [Risālat al-iʻtiqādāt] / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī. Short treatise on Shiʻite doctrine.
    • 2. leaves 4b-8b: Risālah fī taḥqīq al-qiblah / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī. Treatise on determining the direction of the qiblah.
    • 3. leaves 9b-13b: Faṣl dar z̲ikr-i ṣūrat. Extract on geometry from an unidentified mathematics text, with diagrams in the margins.
    • 4. leaves 13b-18b: [Risālah fī taḥrīm dhabāʼiḥ ahl al-kitāb] / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī. Treatise discussing the prohibition on the meat of the Ahl al-Kitāb.
    • 5. leaves 19b-65a: Bidāyat al-hidāyah / Ḥurr al-ʻĀmilī. Treatise on religious duties and prohibitions.
    • 6. leaves 65b-73b: [al-Ṣaḥāʼif al-arbaʻūn al-ilāhīyah]. Forty ḥadīth qudsī, supposedly from the Tawrāh according to the introduction; text breaks off in the middle of the 35th ḥadīth.
    • 7. leaves 74a-152a: [al-Fuṣūl al-muhimmah fī uṣūl al-aʼimmah] / Ḥurr al-ʻĀmilī. Hadiths on legal topics attributed to the Shiʻite imams, particularly Jaʻfar al-Ṣādiq. Missing a few leaves at the beginning (abwāb al-wuḍūʼ begin on leaf 74b). Followed by prayers in Arabic on leaves 151b-152a.
    Provenance
    On leaf 19a, note dated Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1155 H [February 1743].
    References
    • Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 125, 382, 1162, 1172, 1379.
    • Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 546 (no. 3); SII, 578 (3: no. 3); SII, 597 (no. 27)
    Other format(s)
    Also available in an electronic version.
    Other title(s)
    • Faṣl dar z̲ikr-i ṣūrat.
    • فصل در ذکر صورت.
    • Ṣaḥāʼif al-arbaʻūn al-ilāhīyah.
    • صحائف الاربعون الالهية.
    • Iʻtiqādīyah.
    • اعتقادية.
    • Risālah fī taḥqīq jihat al-qiblah.
    • رسالة في تحقيق جهة القبلة.
    OCLC
    430985810
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