رسالة في حق الاحتراز عن الوباء

Risālah fī ḥaqq al-iḥtirāz ʻan al-wabāʼ.

Author
İdrîs Bitlîsî, -1520 [Browse]
Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[ 1779]
Description
23 leaves: paper ; 205 x 120 (148 x 60) mm. bound to 205 x 120 mm.

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    Summary note
    Treatise on how to escape from plague, with a religious tone, aiming to demonstrate that it is a religious duty and a rational behaviour (ḥukm sharʻī wa-qānūn ʻaqlī) to keep away from places where there is plague (see preamble, fol. 2b). This short treatise was written after the author had fled from plague in Cairo on his way back from the pilgrimage in 917/1511, raising criticism from several ʻulamāʼ from Damascus and Aleppo (see preamble, fol. 2a). Ahlwardt, W. Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, no. 6371 gives a detailed description of contents.
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title from fol. 1a. The name of the author appears in a rubric at the head of the text (fol. 1b) and in the preamble (fol. 1b-2a).
    • Incipit: يا حيّا لا يموت ويا قويا فى الملك والملكوت الى لطفك الرغبوت ... اما بعد فيقول العبد الضعيف المتوكل على ربّه اللطيف ... [2أ] ... ادريس بن حسام الدين البدليسى اصلح الله اعماله ... انه لما وفقنى التوفيق الزمانى وساعدمى العون الصمدانى
    • Explicit: انا نعوذ بك من الطعن و الطاعون والوبآء وهجوم البلاء ... يا عون الضعفاء المظلمين برحمتك يا ارحم الراحمين والحمد لله رب العالمين
    • Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for headings and overlining. The text is framed within a single red line. Dark cream paper, glossy, with laid lines visible ; fiber visible on surface. Fol. 23 is a later added flyleaf left blank.
    • Collation: Paper, fol. 23 ; 1¹⁰ 2¹² (+1, fol. 23) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
    • Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "ʻAqāʼid 121". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 707".
    • Origin: Copy completed in Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1193 [March-April 1779] by Muḥammad Naẓīf.
    Binding note
    Bound in a leaf of marbled paper in yellow, green, brown, and plain.
    Provenance
    Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    • Mach, R. Yahuda, 4786
    • Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 233/7 ; SII
    • Kashf al-ẓunūn, ed. Fluegel, III, no. 5930
    Other format(s)
    • Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
    • Also available in an electronic version.
    Other title(s)
    • رسالة الاباء عن مواقع الوباء
    • تأليف ادريس بن حسين البدليسي في احتراز الوباء
    Title in preamble (fol. 4a)
    • Risālat al-Ibāʼ ʻan mawāqiʻ al-wabāʼ
    Title in rubric at head of text (fol. 1b)
    • Taʼlīf Idrīs ibn Ḥusayn al-Bidlīsī fī iḥtirāz al-wabāʼ
    OCLC
    148025459
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