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ACQUISITIONS OF 1970-9 (Or. 14.639)

Cod.Or. 14.639

[Terceme-i Risale-i] Hiisniye -i—jT] An undated copy, incomplete at the end, of an anonymous translation of a Persian version of an Arabic treatise written in defense of Shiism. No title is given, but the contents are briefly explained on the ‘title page’, f. la (quoted below). No direct references to this work have been found, but an equally anonymous refutation of the contents, entitled ‘Hiisniye’ here, was written and printed in the 19th century (see Götz II, 186, with a detailed survey of the contents). The work is preceded by a brief introduction of the translator (lb), in which he explains that the Persian version was made in 958 (1551) and that friends, who had read it, stimulated him to translate it into Turkish. This happened in 1274 (1857-8). The argument developed in this treatise is given the form of a disputation on a number of religious questions between the slave girl Husmya, who had been in the possession of the Imam Ja'far as-Sadlq and whose knowledge she had absorbed, and scholars of Baghdad and Basra, the Imam Shafi‘1, Abü Yüsuf, and Ibrahim Khalid. These disputations were held at the Baghdad court of Caliph Harun ar- Rashid (who wished to put her to the test; if she succeeded, he would buy her from her present owner, a merchant, for 50,000 gold pieces). A few marginal additions.

Bound but without covers; remains of a linen spine holding the quires; cream to brownish paper; 48 folios; 210x165 mm and 170x115 mm, varying; 18 lines; catchwords, but lacking on the last page, f. 48b; nesih; headings, rubrics,' quotations, most catchwords and lines in red; without date or name of a copyist. Acquired from Dimitri Stamoulis, Grenoble, December 1979.

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Ends (48b): •• JSti Ju *1 ^ ^1^1