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Manuscript/Mixed Material Hādhihi risālah fī al-Ifhām wa-al-ilhām هذه رسالة في الإفهام والإلهام ... / / Ifhām wa-al-ilhām li-Qāḍī Miṣr Aḥmad al-ʻAlamī

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Title

  • Hādhihi risālah fī al-Ifhām wa-al-ilhām

Other Title

  • هذه رسالة في الإفهام والإلهام ... /
  • Ifhām wa-al-ilhām li-Qāḍī Miṣr Aḥmad al-ʻAlamī

Summary

  • ʻAlamī's response to his contemporary al-Sājaqlīzādah's Tartīb al-ʻulūm on ʻilm al-ladunī, the knowledge directly imparted to the mystic by God.

Names

  • ʻAlamī, Ahmad, active 17th century-18th century
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Damanhūrī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Munʻim
  • Dimashqī, ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Aḥmad
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 6 Shaʻbān 1141 [7 March 1729]

Headings

  • -  Sājaqlīzādah, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr,---1737.--Tartīb al-ʻulūm
  • -  Sufism--Doctrines--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a.
  • -  Written by Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān al-Buḥayrī.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and watermark of a cluster of grapes; black ink with rubrication; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, GII, p. 370.1
  • -  Following the colophon there are fragments of two poems, one by Aḥmad al-Damanhūrī and one by ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Aḥmad al-Dimashqī.
  • -  Naskh; 21 lines in written area 15 x 8 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-12b.
  • -  "18. III. 1102 = 3.360."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 3-360.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name in lower right corner of cover.
  • -  Incipit: بسم الله وبحمده وصلوة على رسوله واله وصحبه. وبعد فيقول تراب اقدام العلمآ احمد العلمي ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: وصلى اللع على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم تحريرا في سادس شعبان المبارك سنة 1141. كتبه الفقير العاجر احمد السييد سليمن البحيري غفر الله له ولوالديه ولجميع المسلمين امين ...

Medium

  • 12 leaves (21 lines), paper : bound ; 22.6 x 16 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP189.26 .A43 1729

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016404879

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

ʻAlamī, Ahmad, Active 17Th Century-18Th Century, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, Aḥmad Ibn ʻAbd Al-MunʻIm Damanhūrī, ʻAbd Al-Laṭīf Ibn Aḥmad Dimashqī, and Mansuri Collection. Hādhihi risālah fī al-Ifhām wa-al-ilhām. [6 Shaʻbān 7 March 1729, 1141] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016404879/.

APA citation style:

ʻAlamī, A., Manṣūrī, M. A., Damanhūrī, A. I. ʻ. A., Dimashqī, ʻ. A. I. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1141) Hādhihi risālah fī al-Ifhām wa-al-ilhām. [6 Shaʻbān 7 March 1729] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016404879/.

MLA citation style:

ʻAlamī, Ahmad, Active 17Th Century-18Th Century, et al. Hādhihi risālah fī al-Ifhām wa-al-ilhām. [6 Shaʻbān 7 March 1729, 1141] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016404879/>.