The book of facilitating the purposes for visitors to mosques, the solution of replacement, healing of the soul and its faults, blessed supplications, the obligations of prayer and ablution, and other things. wa-ʻuyūbihā wa-adʻīyat mubārakahu wa-farāyiḍ al-ṣalāwāt wa-al-wuḍūʼ wa-ghayr dhālik. — Tasʹhīl al-maqāṣid li-zuwwār al-masājid, facilitating the purposes of visitors to mosques
(كتاب تسهيل المقاصد لزوار المساجد وحلية الابدال ومداوت النفس وعيوبها وادعية مباركه وفرايض الصلاواة والوضو وغير ذلك )

Name: The book of facilitating the purposes for visitors to mosques, the solution of replacement, healing of the soul and its faults, blessed supplications, the obligations of prayer and ablution, and other things. wa-ʻuyūbihā wa-adʻīyat mubārakahu wa-farāyiḍ al-ṣalāwāt wa-al-wuḍūʼ wa-ghayr dhālik. — Tasʹhīl al-maqāṣid li-zuwwār al-masājid, facilitating the purposes of visitors to mosques
Author: Ibn al-ʻImād al-Aqfahsī, Aḥmad, approximately 1349-1405

Title	The book of facilitating the purposes for visitors to mosques, the solution of replacement, healing of the soul and its faults, blessed supplications, the obligations of prayer and ablution, and other things. wa-ʻuyūbihā wa-adʻīyat mubārakahu wa-farāyiḍ al-ṣalāwāt wa-al-wuḍūʼ wa-ghayr dhālik. — Tasʹhīl al-maqāṣid li-zuwwār al-masājid, facilitating the purposes of visitors to mosques
Title Original	كتاب تسهيل المقاصد لزوار المساجد وحلية الابدال ومداوت النفس وعيوبها وادعية مباركه وفرايض الصلاواة والوضو وغير ذلك
Author	Ibn al-ʻImād al-Aqfahsī, Aḥmad, approximately 1349-1405
Author Original	Ibn al-ʻImād al-Aqfahsī, Aḥmad, approximately 1349-1405, ابن العماد الاقفهسي، احمد، approximately 1349-1405
Publication Date:	1507
Publication Place	- 6 Shawwāl 912 [March 1, 1507]
Subject	Mosques (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800, Shrines (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800, Shafiites—Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton, magic squares, Autographs, Blind tooled bindings
Type	kitap
Language	ar
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Pages Count	46
Library:	Princeton University Library
Library Asset ID	9963582173506421
Record ID	dcpz50h752d
Library Location	Special Collections Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 889H
Date	1507-01-01 T00:00:00 AH/301-12-31 T:Khas:Khasz — 1507-301
Notes	A manual of instructions for the use of worshipers and visitors in mosques and holy shrines. \| Ms. codex., Title from title page (fol. 1a)., A few marginal notes. Magic squares on upper pastedown. Title page lists contents which are not in the current manuscript., Collection: Paper ; fol. 46; catchwords; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals., Layout: 15 lines per page., Description: Rubricated ; MS in fair condition. Rare., Origin: According to colophon copy completed 6 Shawwāl 912 by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn al-Falakī al-̣Halabī (fol. 46b)., Colophon: The purposes have been facilitated for visitors to mosques, with the praise and help of God, on the night of the sixth of the blessed month of Shawwal, in the months of the year Monday. Nine hundred and ten. And it was written by the poor man, to God Almighty, Abd al-Rahman ibn Abd al-Latif ibn al-Falaki al-Halabi, a writer in the Noble Diwan in Tripoli... the property of its owner, who is now imprisoned in al-Irqanah in the Noble Court in the Noble Citadel of al-Mansoura in Egypt, with his hand in his wrist for a period of one year and ten months to date. Its history is one year and ten months. We ask God Almighty for a good outcome for the sake of Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace. May God forgive those who read it. He prayed for joy and forgiveness for him and for all Muslims, and God is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs, and may God’s blessings and peace be upon our master Muhammad, his family, and his companions, and grant them abundant peace. Incipit: In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, may God’s prayers and peace be upon Muhammad, from the book Tashil Al-Maqasid by Sheikh Imam Al-Qudwa, the Muslim Mufti... Ibn Al-Imad Al-Afqahsi... Praise be to God, the One and Samadi, as he has no son nor the father of the Most High, the Great, the Majestic. A Muslim must learn the etiquette of visiting mosques and the rules and purposes that he learns from... \| Later type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and cornerpieces attached to upper cover. Marbled paper pastedowns. Lower pastedown missing revealing re-used manuscript page used in the binding. \| Ownership signatures: Saʻūdī; Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Qabbānī[?] dated Dhū al-Ḥijjah 964 (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900. \| Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1823., Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 295., Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 1848.

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The book of facilitating the purposes for visitors to mosques, the solution of replacement, healing of the soul and its faults, blessed supplications, the obligations of prayer and ablution, and other things. wa-ʻuyūbihā wa-adʻīyat mubārakahu wa-farāyiḍ al-ṣalāwāt wa-al-wuḍūʼ wa-ghayr dhālik. — Tasʹhīl al-maqāṣid li-zuwwār al-masājid, facilitating the purposes of visitors to mosques

(كتاب تسهيل المقاصد لزوار المساجد وحلية الابدال ومداوت النفس وعيوبها وادعية مباركه وفرايض الصلاواة والوضو وغير ذلك )

Author Ibn al-ʻImād al-Aqfahsī, Aḥmad, approximately 1349-1405

Author Original Ibn al-ʻImād al-Aqfahsī, Aḥmad, approximately 1349-1405, ابن العماد الاقفهسي، احمد، approximately 1349-1405

Publication Date 1507

Publication Place - 6 Shawwāl 912 [March 1, 1507]

Subject Mosques (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800, Shrines (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800, Shafiites—Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton, magic squares, Autographs, Blind tooled bindings

Type kitap

Language ar

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Pages Count 46

Library Princeton University Library

Library Asset ID 9963582173506421

Record ID dcpz50h752d

Library Location Special Collections Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 889H

Date 1507-01-01 T00:00:00 AH/301-12-31 T:Khas:Khasz — 1507-301

Notes A manual of instructions for the use of worshipers and visitors in mosques and holy shrines. | Ms. codex., Title from title page (fol. 1a)., A few marginal notes. Magic squares on upper pastedown. Title page lists contents which are not in the current manuscript., Collection: Paper ; fol. 46; catchwords; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals., Layout: 15 lines per page., Description: Rubricated ; MS in fair condition. Rare., Origin: According to colophon copy completed 6 Shawwāl 912 by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn al-Falakī al-̣Halabī (fol. 46b)., Colophon: The purposes have been facilitated for visitors to mosques, with the praise and help of God, on the night of the sixth of the blessed month of Shawwal, in the months of the year Monday. Nine hundred and ten. And it was written by the poor man, to God Almighty, Abd al-Rahman ibn Abd al-Latif ibn al-Falaki al-Halabi, a writer in the Noble Diwan in Tripoli... the property of its owner, who is now imprisoned in al-Irqanah in the Noble Court in the Noble Citadel of al-Mansoura in Egypt, with his hand in his wrist for a period of one year and ten months to date. Its history is one year and ten months. We ask God Almighty for a good outcome for the sake of Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace. May God forgive those who read it. He prayed for joy and forgiveness for him and for all Muslims, and God is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs, and may God’s blessings and peace be upon our master Muhammad, his family, and his companions, and grant them abundant peace. Incipit: In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, may God’s prayers and peace be upon Muhammad, from the book Tashil Al-Maqasid by Sheikh Imam Al-Qudwa, the Muslim Mufti... Ibn Al-Imad Al-Afqahsi... Praise be to God, the One and Samadi, as he has no son nor the father of the Most High, the Great, the Majestic. A Muslim must learn the etiquette of visiting mosques and the rules and purposes that he learns from... | Later type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and cornerpieces attached to upper cover. Marbled paper pastedowns. Lower pastedown missing revealing re-used manuscript page used in the binding. | Ownership signatures: Saʻūdī; Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Qabbānī[?] dated Dhū al-Ḥijjah 964 (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900. | Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1823., Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 295., Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 1848.