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Manuscript/Mixed Material al-Iṣābah fī manʻ al-nisāʼ min al-kitābah الاصابة في منع النساء من الكتابة /

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Title

  • al-Iṣābah fī manʻ al-nisāʼ min al-kitābah

Other Title

  • الاصابة في منع النساء من الكتابة /

Summary

  • Treatise on why women should be prevented from writing.

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

  • 17 Rajab 1343 [11 February 1925]

Headings

  • -  Censorship--Religious aspects--Islam
  • -  Muslim women authors
  • -  Women (Islamic law)
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a.
  • -  Written by Muṣṭafá ibn ʻUthmān ibn Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Ṣayyād al-Marṣafī.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Written in Cairo, Egypt.
  • -  Paper; cream color commercial paper with no visible watermarks; black ink witn minimal rubrication; catchwords.
  • -  Naskh; 15 lines in written area 16 x 11 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-11a.
  • -  "83. IX [737] = 5.683."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-683.
  • -  Binding; dark brown quarter leather with blue grain sides.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة. حمدا لمن علمنا ما لم نعلم. وفضلنا بالبيان الاتم. ... اما بعد فقد ورد في هذا الشهر المبارك رمضان من بلاد هندستان هذا السوآل مع ما ورد من الاسئلة ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: بعون الله وحسن توفيقه تم هذه الرسالى حيث جآت لعبق اصلها بقلم الفقير راجي عفو الرحمن مصطفى بن عثمان بن احمد بن زين الصياد المرصفي وكان ذلك في يوم الاربعا 17 رجب سنة 1343 ثلاثة واربعين وثلثماية بعد الالف من هجرته صلى اللع عليه وسلم تمت.

Medium

  • 11 leaves (15 lines), paper : bound ; 24.6 x 19 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Z658.I77 A48 1925

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016404889

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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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-Iṣābah fī manʻ al-nisāʼ min al-kitābah. [17 Rajab 11 February 1925, 1343] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016404889/.

APA citation style:

Ālūsī, N. I. M., Marṣafī, M. I. ʻ. I. A. I. Z. A., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1343) al-Iṣābah fī manʻ al-nisāʼ min al-kitābah. [17 Rajab 11 February 1925] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016404889/.

MLA citation style:

Ālūsī, NuʻMān Ibn Maḥmūd, et al. al-Iṣābah fī manʻ al-nisāʼ min al-kitābah. [17 Rajab 11 February 1925, 1343] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016404889/>.