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[Answer to ʻAbd al-Ḥusayn ibn Yūsuf al-Baḥrānī] ... [etc.].
Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Persian
Published/Created
[1842 or 1843]
Description
26 leaves : paper ; 208 x 151 (162 x 104) mm bound to 213 x 155 mm
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Special Collections - Manuscripts
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3418Y
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Subject(s)
Islamic law
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Islam
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Prayers and devotions
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Early works to 1800
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Qurʼan Sūrat al-Shūrá 11
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Commentaries
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Early works to 1800
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Shaykhī
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Doctrines
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Early works to 1800
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Shīʻah
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Shīʻah
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Prayers and devotions
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Early works to 1800
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Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad 1201-1274
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Davāzdah Imām
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Manuscripts, Arabic
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New Jersey
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Princeton
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Manuscripts, Persian
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New Jersey
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Princeton
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Donor
Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961
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Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3418Y
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Aḥsāʼī, Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn, 1753-1826.
Answer to ʻAbd al-Ḥusayn ibn Yūsuf al-Baḥrānī.
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Aḥsāʼī, Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn, 1753-1826.
Asʼilah al-Masʻūdīyah.
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احسائي، احمد بن زين الدين، 1753-1826.
اسئلة المسعودية.
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Aḥsāʼī, Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn, 1753-1826.
Risālah al-Zanjīyah.
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احسائي، احمد بن زين الدين، 1753-1826.
رسالة الزنجية.
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Aḥsāʼī, Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn, 1753-1826.
Answer to Muḥammad Ḥusayn ibn Sulṭān al-Najafī.
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Aḥsāʼī, Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn, 1753-1826.
Risālah al-Baḥrānīyah.
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احسائي، احمد بن زين الدين، 1753-1826.
رسالة البحرانية.
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Aḥsāʼī, Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn, 1753-1826.
Risālah al-Ghadīrīyah.
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احسائي، احمد بن زين الدين، 1753-1826.
رسالة الغديرية.
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Aḥsāʼī, Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn, 1753-1826.
Wasāʼil al-himam al-ʻulyā fī jawāb masāʼil al-ruʼyā.
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احسائي، احمد بن زين الدين، 1753-1826.
وسائل الهمم العليا في جواب مسائل الرؤيا.
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Iṣfahānī, ʻAbd al-Muṭṭalib ibn Ḥasan, active 18th century.
Sharḥ-i Davāzdah Imām-i Khvājah Naṣīr.
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اصفهاني، عبد المطلب بن حسن، active 18th century.
شرح دوازده امام خواجه نصير.
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Summary note
Collection of texts by the founder of the Shaykhī school, followed by a Persian commentary on the supplication Davāzdah Imām.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Layout: 27-36 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; overlining in red ; MS in good condition, mild staining and smudging.
Origin: 1258 H [1842 or 1843] (leaf 24a).
Incipit: [Answer to ʻAbd al-Ḥusayn] الحمد لله الذى اوضح الحق باکمل بيان -- [الاسئلة المسعودية] الحمد لله ... قد وردت على مسائل من الانوار الالمعى -- [الرسالة الزنجية] الحمد لله ... اما بعد فيقول ... قد وقع بحث طويل بين الشيخ الارشد الشيخ احمد بن المقدس ... وبين السيد السند السيد ... الزنجى -- [Answer to Muḥammad Ḥusayn] الحمد لله ... قد وصلت الى مسائل جليلة من الشيخ محمد ... النجفي -- [الرسالة البحرانية] الحمد لله ... قد ارسل الى .... فى تبين کلام لملا محسن الکاشانى فى معنى الفناء فى الله والبقاء بالله -- [الرسالة الغديرية] الحمد لله ... قد ارسل الى ... ابن غدير بمسائل يريد بيانها -- [وسائل الهمم] الحمد لله الذى نور قلوب عباده -- [شرح دوازده] حمد و سپاس و شکر بيقياس حضرت اميريرا که آيات شريفه و ادعيۀ مأثوره را وسيله اجابت دعوات گردانيده
Binding note
Rebound in green cloth.
Language note
Arabic and Persian.
Contents
1. leaves 1b-7b: [Answer to ʻAbd al-Ḥusayn ibn Yūsuf al-Baḥrānī] / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʼī. Response to several questions concerning faith and unbelief, completed on 15 Jumādá II 1212 H [5 December 1797].
2. leaves 7b-11a: [al-Asʼilah al-Masʻūdīyah] / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʼī.
3. leaves 11a-12b: [al-Risālah al-Zanjīyah] / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʼī. On the question whether the kāf in "laysa ka-mithlihi shayʼ" (42:11) is redundant or not; completed 15 Rajab 1212 H [3 January 1798].
4. leaves 12b-16a: [Answer to Muḥammad Ḥusayn ibn Sulṭān al-Najafī] / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʼī. Response to fifteen religious and legal questions.
5. leaves 16a-17a: [al-Risālah al-Baḥrānīyah] / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʼī. Response to a question posed by Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd al-Qāhir al-Baḥrānī concerning annihilation and subsistence in God; completed in Ramaḍān 1211 H [March 1797].
6. leaves 17a-21a: [al-Risālah al-Ghadīrīyah] / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʼī. Response to four religious and legal questions posed by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ghadīr.
7. leaves 21a-24a: Wasāʼil al-himam al-ʻulyā fī jawāb masāʼil al-ruʼyā / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʼī. Response to two religious questions posed by Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻUṣfūr al-Baḥrānī al-Darrāzī.
8. leaves 24a-26b: Sharḥ-i Davāzdah Imām-i Khvājah Naṣīr / ʻAbd al-Muṭṭalib ibn Ḥasan Isfahānī. Commentary on the supplication known as Davāzdah Imām.
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Provenance
Smudged owner's stamp on leaf 24a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source acquisition
Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 2616, 2613, 520, 2617, 2618, 2619, 2620.
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Also available in an electronic version.
Other title(s)
Risālah fī aqsām al-kuffār.
رسالة في اقسام الكفار.
Ajwibah ʻan asʼilat al-Najafī.
اجوبة عن اسئلة النجفي.
OCLC
850907548
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