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Title

Fatwá. Risālat al-Naqshbandīyah ... etc..
فتوى. رسالة النقشبندية

Authors

• Abū al-Saʻūd Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1492 or 1493-1574 or 1575
  ابو السعود محمد بن محمد
• Suyūṭī, 1445-1505
  سيوطي
• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʻAsqalānī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, 1372-1449
  ابن حجر العسقلاني، احمد بن علي
• Khādimī, Muḥammad ibn Muṣṭafá, 1701 or 2-1762 or 3
  خادمي، محمد بن مصطفى
• Khādimī, Muḥammad ibn Muṣṭafá, 1701 or 2-1762 or 3
  خادمي، محمد بن مصطفى
• Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad, 15th cent.?
  محمود بن محمد
• Qārī al-Harawī, ʻAlī ibn Sulṭān Muḥammad, d. 1605 or 6
  قاري الهروي، علي بن سلطان محمد
• Ibn Dāwūd, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr, 1380 or 81-1452
  ابن داوود، عبد الرحمن بن ابي بكر
• Ibn al-Jazarī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1350-1429
  ابن الجزري، محمد بن محمد
• Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, active 10th century
  ابو حيان التوحيدي، علي بن محمد
• Abū al-Saʻūd Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1492 or 1493-1574 or 1575
  ابو السعود محمد بن محمد
• Ali Çelebi, Kınalızade, 1510-1571
  قناليزادة، علي چلبي بن امر الله
• Avicenna, 980-1037
  ابن سينا
• Kemalpaşazade, 1468 or 9-1534
  كمال باشا
• Kemalpaşazade, 1468 or 9-1534
  كمال باشا
• Hüsrev, Molla, d. 1480
  خسرو
• Jurjānī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, al-Sayyid al-Sharīf, 1340-1413
  جرجاني، علي بن محمد،
• Samarqandī, Ḥusayn ibn Ḥasan, active 16th century
  سمرقندي، حسين بن حسن
• Hüsameddin Hüseyn Efendi, -1519 or 1520
  حسام الدين حسين افندى
• Kaydānī
  كيداني
• Başmakcızade, ʻAbd al-Salām, active 18th century
  بشمقجى زاده عبد السلام

Call number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 225Y
(Princeton, Princeton University, Princeton University Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5027529
• http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/0v8380633

Publisher

Princeton University

Origin

Date

1765 or 1766

Summary

Elegant copy of several texts in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish, on religious topics.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title provided by cataloger.
   
• 20 to 21 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Glazed European paper with watermark. Fol. 19 dyed in yellow. The paper has been frame-ruled. The text is framed within a gold and black border. In the texts in verses, verses are separated by gold borders (see fol. 87a). Illuminated headpices (ʻunwān) and divisions of the page with a floral motif in gold, pink, red green and white (fol. 2a, 4b, 12b, 17b, etc.). Hāshiyah written in a minaret shaped border on the margin of fol. 12b. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Majmaʻ". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 208/2".
   
• Some texts are copied by ʻAbd al-Qādir, one of the disciples (tilmīdh) of Abū Bakr al-Marāshid in 1179 H. [1765 or 6] (fol. 161a). Others by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Khalīfah (Mehmet Halife) , known as Qurrah faqīh al-Lārandī [from Lārandah (Larende or Karaman), in Anatolia], in 1180 H. [1766 or 7] (fol. 208b).
   
• 1. fol. 1a: [Table of contents].
   
• 2. fol. 2a: [Verses of poetry by Fuzulî-i Bağdâdî, Nazârî Efendi and Ilmî Efendi, with mention of the dates of events such as the death of Kemalpaşazade, al-Sayyid al-Sharīf (al-Jurjānī), Jāmī, etc.].
   
• 3. fol. 2b-3a: [Blank].
   
• 4. fol. 3b-4b: [Several short excerpts].
   
• 5. fol. 5a: [Blank].
   
• 6. fol. 5b-8a: Fatwá Abū al-Suʻūd Afandī [in Ottoman Turkish] / [Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad] Abū al-Saʻūd [Title in table of contents: Risālah fī al-afʻāl al-ikhtiyārah].
   
• 7. fol. 8b-12a: [Blank].
   
• 8. fol. 12b-15a: Risālat al-Naqshbandīyah / [Muḥammad ibn Muṣṭafá al-]Khādimī.
   
• 9. fol. 15b-17a: [Blank].
   
• 10. fol. 17b-43b: Waṣāyā / Abū Saʻīd Muḥammad ibn al-Shaykh Muṣṭafá al-Khādimī.
   
• 11. fol. 44a-45b: [Blank].
   
• 12. fol. 46a: Nuktah sabʻah ḥākim fī waqt sabʻah [at the end of the page: Min al-Sabʻīyāt].
   
• 13. fol. 46b-48b: [Several short texts in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish, some excerpted from Tafsīr al-Qāḍī al-Bayḍawī].
   
• 14. fol. 49a-55a: [Verses attributed to ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, ʻUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, Fāṭimah al-Zahrāʼ, etc.].
   
• 15. fol. 55b-56a: Risālah fī bayān iṣṭilāḥāt ahl al-ḥadīth [Title in table of contents: Muṣṭalaḥāt ahl al-ḥadīth; Definitions of several terms, starting with "mawqūf", "munqaṭaʻ", "muʻaḍḍal"].
   
• 16. fol. 56b-57a: [Blank].
   
• 17. fol. 57b: Taskhīr-i kabīr or Taskhīr-i qulūb [Short text describing how to read a verse of the Fātiḥah each day of the week. On the margin, mention of al-Shaykh al-Karkhī].
   
• 18. fol. 58a: [Blank].
   
• 19. fol. 58b-59b: Ṭabaqāt al-tābiʻīn min Kitāb al-Itqān fī ʻulūm al-Qurʼān / Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī.
   
• 20. fol. 60a: [Blank].
   
• 21. fol. 60b-62b: [Several prayers, some for travelers, attributed to Sayyid ʻAlīʹzādah Aḥmad, Abū al-Suʻūd, al-Zamakhsharī, al-Shaykh Burhān al-Dīn al-Biqāʻī].
   
• 22. fol. 63a-66a: [Blank].
   
• 23. fol. 66b-67a: [Risālah fī bayān ṭabaqāt al-masāʼil] / ʻAlī Çelebi Efendi Hayâlîzade (or: Hayânîzade) [Title supplied according to ms. Leiden, 1884, with author: ʻAlī Çelebi Qinālīzāda; title in table of contents: Ṭabaqāt al-fuqahāʼ li-Hayâlî Zade ʻAlī Çelebi; title in Mach, R. Yahuda: Risālah fī taḥqīq anwāʻ al-masāʼil ʻinda al-Ḥanafīyah; see GAL II, 433/10].
   
• 24. fol. 67b: [Blank].
   
• 25. fol. 68a: Fī ziyādat al-ʻumr wa-nuqṣānihi bi-al-ʻamal / Ibn al-Kamāl.
   
• 26. fol. 68b: [Blank].
   
• 27. fol. 69a-92b: [Several short texts in prose and verse, comprising a Qaṣīdah li-Abī ʻAlī Ibn Sīnā fī majiʼ al-rūḥ bi-al-qālib(?); several short texts and ḥadith commenting on the meaning of some words and on questions related to exegesis, excerpted from al-Sabʻīyāt, Sharḥ al-Mawāqif, Sharḥ-i Kāfīyah, Sharḥ al-Kashshāf, Firdaws al-akhbār, etc., and attributed to Saʻd al-Dīn, Ibn Kamāl (fī --? al-Tajrīd), al-Sayyid al-Sharīf, ʻImād Kātibī, Jawharī, Ḥasan Çelebi, etc.; a text explaining what a mufassir should know (fol. 70b); questions and answers in Ottoman Turkish attributed to Abū al-Saʻūd (fol. 75a-78b); Waṣiyat Jalāl al-Dīn al-Rūmī (fol. 79b; four lines); Munājāt Shaykh Muḥyī al-Dīn ʻArabī (fol. 79b; six lines); a text mentioning the names of the Aṣḥāb al-Kahf; a text "fī quṭb al-athwāb" (fol. 81a); prayers and duʻaʼ, some in verses, and other verses of poetry attributed to Zayn al-Dīn al-Wardī, Ghars al-Dīn ibn Khalīl, al-Ṣalāḥ al-Ṣafadī, Ḥusām al-Dīn al-Ḥājirī, Abū al-Faraj al-Waʼwaʼ, Abū al-Fatḥ al-Bustī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Suhaylī, al-Imām al-Nūrī (or al-Ghazālī, praising the Fātiḥah), al-Ghazālī in the Iḥyāʼ, Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Wakīl, Munājāt of Shihāb al-Dīn (fol. 89b), al-Shāfiʻī, Saʻd al-Dīn, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Sābiq, Ibn Rāwandī, ʻAlī, Ibn Fāris al-Lughawī, Abū Ismaʻīl, etc. (fol. 81b-92b); talisman on fol. 91a].
   
• 28. fol. 93a-94a: Waṣiyatʹnāmah / Mullā Khosraw.
   
• 29. fol. 94a-b: [Several ḥadīth].
   
• 30. fol. 95a: [Blank].
   
• 31. fol. 95b-97b: Mā ruwiya ʻan Ibn ʻAbbās fī tartīb al-anbiyāʼ.
   
• 32. fol. 98a: [Names of the pre-Islamic Kings, from the Kitāb Bidāyat al-nihāyah, in Ottoman Turkish].
   
• 33. fol. 98b-139a: Jāmiʻ al-laṭāʼif wa-kāshif al-asrār / Ḥusayn ibn Ḥasan al-Samarqandī [Title in table of contents: Tārīkh ṣaghīr al-musammá bi-Jāmiʻ al-laṭāʼif; title in Mach, R. Yahuda, following Kashf al-ẓunūn: Laṭāʼif al-afkār wa-kāshif al-asrār; the date Rabīʻ I 991 [1583] is mentioned at the end of the text].
   
• 34. fol. 139b-141b: [Blank].
   
• 35. fol. 142a-150a: Kitāb ʻUrf al-taʻrīf bi-al-mawlid al-sharīf / lil-Imām al-ʻallāmah al-shaykh Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Jazarī.
   
• 36. fol. 150b-151a: [Blank].
   
• 37. fol. 151b-161a: Kitāb al-Indhār bi-wafāt al-nabī al-muṣṭafá al-mukhtār / lil-Shaykh al-imām al-ʻālim al-ʻāmil al-shaykh al-muḥaqqiqīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Dāʼūd al-Ḥanbalī al-Dimashqī al-Ṣāliḥī [Title in table of contents: al-Risālah al-mutaʻallaqah bi-wafāt al-Nabī ṣallá Allāh ʻalay-hi wa-sallam].
   
• 38. fol. 161b-164a: [Blank].
   
• 39. fol. 164b-169a: [Risālat al-saqīfah] / [Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī] [Title in table of contents: Risālah fī ḥaqq al-khulafā bi-[---?] al-Nabī ṣallá Allāh ʻalay-hi wa-sallam].
   
• 40. fol. 169b-170b: Risālah fī aḥkām al-sabb / [Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Ḥusām Çelebi] [Title in Mach, R. Yahuda: Risālah fī sabb al-Nabī].
   
• 41. fol. 170b: Waṣiyat al-Sayyid al-Sharīf.
   
• 42. fol. 171a-183b: Kitāb al-Munabbihāt li-istiʻdād yawm al-mīʻād / Ibn Ḥajar al-ʻAsqalānī [Title in table of contents: Munabbihāt li-Ibn Ḥajar; title in Mach, R. Yahuda: al-Munabbihāt ʻalá al-istiʻdād li-yawm al-maʻād].
   
• 43. fol. 184a: Qaṣīdah / li-Mawlānā Ibn Kamāl Pāshā.
   
• 44. fol. 184b-186b, l. 5: [Fiqh al-Kaydānī (or: Maṭālib al-muṣallī)] / [Luṭf Allāh al-Kaydānī] [Title in table of contents: Risālah fī anwāʻ al-mashrūʻāt fī ākhirihi Ṭabaqāt al-mujtahidīn li-Ibn Kamāl; see Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 1732].
   
• 45. fol. 186b, l. 5-187a: [Risālah fī ṭabaqāt al-fuqahāʼ] / Ibn Kamāl Pāshā [Title in table of contents: Ṭabaqāt al-mujtahidīn li-Ibn Kamāl].
   
• 46. fol. 187b-188a: Risālah fī jawāz al-dhikr al-jahrī wa-istijābih / al-muʼallif Bustān al-ʻārifīn [Title in table of contents: Risālah fī ḥaqq jawāz al-dhikr al-jahrī li-Bustān al-ʻārifīn].
   
• 47. fol. 188b-190b: Risālah fī al-aḥādīth al-wāridah fī ḥuqūq al-zawj ʻalá al-zawj [sic] bi-al-riwāyah al-ṣaḥīḥah [Title in table of contents: Risālah fī al-aḥādīth al-wāridah fī ḥuqūq al-zawj ʻalá al-zawjah], followed by an excerpt from Mukhtār al-Ṣaḥīḥ and from Tafsīr al-Qāḍī al-Bayḍawī.
   
• 48. fol. 191a-193a: [Short texts in Ottoman Turkish and in Arabic on dhikr].
   
• 49. fol. 193b-196b: [Several short excerpts in Ottoman Turkish on the Kalimat al-tawḥīd].
   
• 50. fol. 197a: [Blank].
   
• 51. fol. 197b-206b: [Anonymous commentary on al-ʻAḍudīyah; Title at the beginning of text: Risālah sharīfah lil-Qādī ʻAḍud muʼallif al-Mawāqif; title at the end of text: al-Risālah al-sharīfah fī al-akhlāq; title in table of contents: al-Akhlāq al-ʻAḍudīyah; title in Mach, R. Yahuda: Sharḥ al-ʻAḍudīyah fī al-akhlāq].
   
• 52. fol. 206b-207b: Risālah fī labs al-maṣbūgh [title from table of contents].
   
• 53. fol. 207b-208a: Sharḥ ʻAlī al-Qārī.
   
• 54. fol. 208a-b: al-Marātib al-khams al-qalbīyah [title from table of contents] / ʻAbd al-Salām, known as Başmakcızade, written in 1164-1165 H. [1751] (colophon, fol. 208b).
   
• 55. fol. 209a: [Short saying attributed to Ibn Sīnā on girls of different ages, starting with: "Bint ʻashr lūz muqashsharah naẓarahā al-nāẓirīn")].
   
• 56. fol. 209b-214a: [Three short texts in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish, on the Qurʼān and ḥadīth, ending with an excerpt from Kitāb al-ʻaql wa-al-naql by Taqī al-Dīn, quoting Aḥmad ibn Qāsim al-ʻIbādī, entitled in the table of contents "Man yuḥkam bi-kufrihi wa-man lā yuḥkam lil-Qāsim al-ʻIbādī"].
   
• 57. fol. 214b-216b: Risālah fī ḥaqq al-Khiḍr ʻalayhi al-salām [incomplete at end] / [ʻAlī ibn Sulṭān Muḥammad al-Qārī al-Harawī] [Title in table of contents: al-Risālah al-Khidrīyah; title in Mach, R. Yahuda: Kashf al-khidr ʻan amr al-Khiḍr].
   
• 58. fol. 217a-219a: [Blank].
   
• 59. fol. 219b-254a: Risālah min ʻilm al-muḥādarah / Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad [Title from table of contents; title in Mach, R. Yahuda: Laṭāʼif al-ishārāt fī al-muḥāḍarāt wa-al-muḥāwarāt]. According to Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn col. 533 (s. v. Jālib al-surūr) and col. 1551 (s.v. Laṭāʼif...), this is an abridgment of Jālib al-surūr wa-sālib al-ghurūr of Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Qarabāghī, d. 942/1535: Brockelmann, GAL, II, 566 (2), S II, 638; Chester Beatty Library: A handlist of the Arabic manuscripts, 5239. Identical with Muḥādarāt wa-muḥāwarāt, Brockelmann, GAL, S II, 57 (11a), Arabic manuscripts in the Yale University Library, 463.
   

Extent

Iii, 256, ii leaves: 205 x 155 (157 x 80) mm. bound to 208 x 160 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Brown leather over thin paper pasteboard for upper and lower covers. Both covers have a central mandorla and an outer frame made of gold painted fillets.

Provenance

• Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ;
   
• From the books of Aḥmad Najīb (note on fol. 1a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
   

Subjects topical

• Ījī, ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad,--d. 1355?--Akhlāq al-ʻaḍudīyah
• Muḥammad,--Prophet,---632--Biography--Early works to 1800
• Ibn al-Jazarī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad,--1350-1429--Taʻrīf bi-al-mawlid al-sharīf--Abridgment
• Future life--Islam--Early works to 1800
• Sufi chants--Early works to 1800
• Naqshabandīyah--Early works to 1800
• Khiḍr (Legendary character)--Early works to 1800
• Hadith--Dictionaries--Arabic--Early works to 1800
• Travelers--Prayers and devotions--Islam--Early works to 1800
• Aṣḥāb al-kahf--Names--Early works to 1800
• Prophets--Islam--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Arabic--New Jersey--Princeton
• Manuscripts, Turkish--New Jersey--Princeton

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic--18th century
• Manuscripts, Turkish--18th century
• Headpieces (layout features)--Islamic countries--18th century
• Illuminated manuscripts--Islamic countries--18th century

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Table of contents

• f. 1. a — Table of contents
• f. 2. a — Verses of poetry
• f. 3. b — Several short excerpts
• f. 5. b — Fatwá Abū al-Suʻūd Afandī
• f. 12. b — Risālat al-Naqshbandīyah
• f. 17. b — Waṣāyā
• f. 46. a — Nuktah sabʻah ḥākim fī waqt sabʻah
• f. 46. b — Several short texts in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish
• f. 49. a — Verses
• f. 55. b — Risālah fī bayān iṣṭilāḥāt ahl al-ḥadīth
• f. 57. b — Taskhīr-i kabīr or Taskhīr-i qulūb
• f. 58. b — Ṭabaqāt al-tābiʻīn min Kitāb al-Itqān fī ʻulūm al-Qurʼān
• f. 60. b — Several prayers, some for travelers
• f. 66. b — [Risālah fī bayān ṭabaqāt al-masāʼil]
• f. 67. b — Fī ziyādat al-ʻumr wa-nuqṣānihi bi-al-ʻamal
• f. 69. a — Several short texts in prose and verse
• f. 93. a — Waṣiyatʹnāmah
• f. 94. a — Several ḥadīth
• f. 95. b — Mā ruwiya ʻan Ibn ʻAbbās fī tartīb al-anbiyāʼ
• f. 98. a — Names of the pre-Islamic Kings
• f. 98. b — Jāmiʻ al-laṭāʼif wa-kāshif al-asrār
• f. 142. a — Kitāb ʻUrf al-taʻrīf bi-al-mawlid al-sharīf
• f. 151. b — Kitāb al-Indhār bi-wafāt al-nabī al-muṣṭafá al-mukhtār
• f. 164. b — [Risālat al-saqīfah]
• f. 169. b — Risālah fī aḥkām al-sabb
• f. 170. b — Waṣiyat al-Sayyid al-Sharīf
• f. 171. a — Kitāb al-Munabbihāt li-istiʻdād yawm al-mīʻād
• f. 184. a — Qaṣīdah
• f. 184. b — Fiqh al-Kaydānī
• f. 186. b — [Risālah fī ṭabaqāt al-fuqahāʼ]
• f. 187. b — Risālah fī jawāz al-dhikr al-jahrī wa-istijābih
• f. 188. b — Risālah fī al-aḥādīth al-wāridah fī ḥuqūq al-zawj ʻalá al-zawj [sic] bi-al-riwāyah al-ṣaḥīḥah
• f. 191. a — Short texts on dhikr
• f. 193. b — Several excerpts on the Kalimat al-tawḥīd
• f. 197. b — Anonymous commentary on al-ʻAḍudīyah
• f. 206. b — Risālah fī labs al-maṣbūgh
• f. 207. b — Sharḥ ʻAlī al-Qārī
• f. 208. a — al-Marātib al-khams al-qalbīyah
• f. 209. a — Short saying attributed to Ibn Sīnā on girls of different ages
• f. 209. b — Three short texts on the Qurʼān and ḥadīth
• f. 214. b — Risālah fī ḥaqq al-Khiḍr ʻalayhi al-salām
• f. 219. b — Risālah min ʻilm al-muḥādarah