Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 4096Y

Metadata

DS ID:

DS29846

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 4096Y

Title:

Ghunyah li-ṭālibī ṭarīq al-ḥaqq / غنية لطالي طريق الحق

Author:

ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī, -1166 / عبد القادر الجيلاني

Abdul Qadir Gilani WIKIDATA

Date:

1537 or 1538

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 238 leaves : paper ; 185 x 138 (138 x 105) mm. bound to 185 x 145 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by the cataloger.
Copied by ʻAbd al-ʻAlī bin Muḥammad bin al-Ḥājj Abī Bakr al-Maghribī [?] al-Shāfiʻī al-Qādirī in 944 (1537 or 1538) -- colophon (fol. 235a).
23 lines per page. Written in a casual medium small naskh in black ink. Catchwords on the verso of each folio. Ff. 235b-236b have a short text containing al-Jīlānī's explanation concerning the wearing of the khirqah. Fol. 237a has two short paragraphs in verse entitled Kitāb Futūḥ al-ghayb, signed "kātibuhu al-Ḥājj Ḥasan", and dated 1020 (1611-12) and 1077 (1666-67). Fol. 237b has another...
Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Arabic

Eighteenth century

Sufism--Doctrines

Early works

Muslims--Conduct of life

New Jersey--Princeton

Islamic ethics

Islam--Rituals

Sufism--Rituals

Islam--Customs and practices

Islam--Doctrines

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9951355633506421

Holding Institution:

Princeton University