Details

Subject(s)

• Islamic education—History—16th century—Sources [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Treatise regarding the teaching of the Qurʾān, mainly a collection of ḥadīths, in seven maqāṣid and a khātimah (see beginning of text, fol. 1a). The preamble (fol. (i)b) explains the occasion for the composition of this treatise: a letter received by the author in Jumādá II 957 [June-July 1550] relating a discussion on the matter. Maqṣad 7 gives in full the questions and answers of this discussion.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a). The name of the author also appears at the end of the copy (fol. 48b).
• Physical description: 17 lines per page. Written in casual medium large naskh in black ink with use of red. European paper with watermark ; frame-ruled. Occasional marginal annotations. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first fol.; this record follows the existing foliation). Loose leaves ; loose quires.
• Origin: According to colophon, copied from a copy in the hand of "sayyidī wa-ustādhī" Shaykh al-Islām ... Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Shūbarī al-Shāfiʻī, on 16 Shawwāl 1064 [Aug. 30, 1654] (fol. 49a).
• Incipit: بسم ... رب يسر ووفق الحمد لله الذي شرف حملة كتابه ومعلميه بان جعلهم خير خلقه وساداتها ... وبعد فقد ورد علي من بعض صلحاء مؤدبي الاطفال ثاني جمادي الاولي سنة سبع وخمسين وتسع ماية اسئلة معجمة

Binding note

Unbound. Traces of a leather spine.

Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 26
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 388 (1/2) ; SII

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

OCLC

209602573

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