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Manuscript/Mixed Material al-Ajwibah al-Nuʻmānīyah ʻan al-asʼilah al-Hindīyah الأجوبة المعمانية عا الاسئلة الهندية

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Title

  • al-Ajwibah al-Nuʻmānīyah ʻan al-asʼilah al-Hindīyah

Other Title

  • الأجوبة المعمانية عا الاسئلة الهندية

Summary

  • Answers to various questions on Islamic doctrine and practice.

Names

  • Ālūsī, Nuʻmān ibn Maḥmūd, 1836-1899
  • Marṣafī, Muṣṭafá ibn ʻUthmān ibn Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Ṣayyād, scribe
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 24 Shaʻbān 1343 [20 March 1925]

Headings

  • -  Islam--Miscellanea
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Author's name does not appear in the work; supplied from LC card file.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a.
  • -  Written by Muṣṭafá ibn ʻUthmān ibn Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Marṣafī al-Ṣayyād.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Written in Cairo, Egypt.
  • -  Paper; cream color commercial paper with no visible watermarks; black ink with rubrication; catchwords.
  • -  Naskh; 21 lines in written area 18.5 x 9 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-16b.
  • -  "83. IX [756] = 5.701."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-701.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name in lower right corner of cover.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة. الحمد لله العلي العظيم المنزه عن التشبيه والتعطيل والتجسيم الذي علم الانسان الكتابة بالقلم والبيان باللسان ... اما بعد فقد وردت اسئلة من بلاد هندستان عن علمآء العراق الساطع نور فضلهم في افاق البلدان بوساطة ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: قد تم نسخ هذه الرسالة بقلم الفقير مصطفى بن عثمان بن احمد بن زين المرصفي الصياد غفر الله لهم وكافة المسلمين وكان ذلك في يوم الخميس 24 شعبان المكرم سنة 1343 الف وثلثماية وثلاثة واربعين من هجرة الرسول المكرم والنبي العظيم سيدنا محمد صلى الله علىه وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم امين.

Medium

  • 16 leaves (21 lines), paper : bound ; 25.2 x 19.2 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP160 .A59 1925

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016404888

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, African and Middle East Division, Near East Section Arabic Language Rare Materials Collection

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Chicago citation style:

Ālūsī, NuʻMān Ibn Maḥmūd, Muṣṭafá Ibn ʻUthmān Ibn Aḥmad Ibn Zayn Al-Ṣayyād Marṣafī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. al-Ajwibah al-Nuʻmānīyah ʻan al-asʼilah al-Hindīyah. [24 Shaʻbān 20 March 1925, 1343] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016404888/.

APA citation style:

Ālūsī, N. I. M., Marṣafī, M. I. ʻ. I. A. I. Z. A., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1343) al-Ajwibah al-Nuʻmānīyah ʻan al-asʼilah al-Hindīyah. [24 Shaʻbān 20 March 1925] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016404888/.

MLA citation style:

Ālūsī, NuʻMān Ibn Maḥmūd, et al. al-Ajwibah al-Nuʻmānīyah ʻan al-asʼilah al-Hindīyah. [24 Shaʻbān 20 March 1925, 1343] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016404888/>.