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Manuscript/Mixed Material Lawāmiʻ anwār al-tamjīd wa-jawāmiʻ asrārih. Mashāriq anwār al-yaqīn fī iẓhār ḥaqāʼiq Amīr al-Muʼminīn لوامع انوار التمجيد وجوامع الراره. مشارق انوار اليقين في اظهار حقائق أمير المؤمنين / Title from fol. 1a in a later hand: Lawāmiʻ anwār al-tamjīd fī al-tawḥīd : wa-yalīhi Mashāriq anwār al-yaqīn min tālīf al-ʻallāmah Rajab al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Bursī (raḥimahu Allāh)

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Title

  • Lawāmiʻ anwār al-tamjīd wa-jawāmiʻ asrārih. Mashāriq anwār al-yaqīn fī iẓhār ḥaqāʼiq Amīr al-Muʼminīn

Other Title

  • لوامع انوار التمجيد وجوامع الراره. مشارق انوار اليقين في اظهار حقائق أمير المؤمنين
  • Title from fol. 1a in a later hand: Lawāmiʻ anwār al-tamjīd fī al-tawḥīd : wa-yalīhi Mashāriq anwār al-yaqīn min tālīf al-ʻallāmah Rajab al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Bursī (raḥimahu Allāh)

Summary

  • Incomplete manuscript of two works on the Caliph ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib.

Names

  • Bursī, Rajab ibn Muḥammad, active 1372
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 10 Shawwāl 1231 [3 September 1816]

Headings

  • -  ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib,--Caliph,--approximately 600-661
  • -  Imams (Shiites)
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Titles from fol. 1a.
  • -  Date from end of 1st work (fol. 7b) 10 Shawwāl 1231.
  • -  Scribe not identified.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and a faint armorial watermark and the date 1800 in outline; black ink; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, SII, 204,3, 1
  • -  Naskh; 23 lines in written area 14.5 x 6.3 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-7b, 8a-64b (incomplete).
  • -  "18. III 1115 = 3.374."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 3-374.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name in lower right corner of cover.
  • -  Incipit (1st work) البسملة. الحمد لله الواحد لا من قلة الموجود لا من علة ولصلاة على المبعوث باشرفملة واله النجوم والاهلة ...
  • -  Incipit (2nd work) لابسملة. الحمد لله المتفرد با الازل والابد ...

Medium

  • 7, 64 leaves (incomplete), (23 lines), paper : bound ; 19.5 x 12,5 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP193.1.A3 B8645 1816

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016404993

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Bursī, Rajab Ibn Muḥammad, Active 1372, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Lawāmiʻ anwār al-tamjīd wa-jawāmiʻ asrārih. Mashāriq anwār al-yaqīn fī iẓhār ḥaqāʼiq Amīr al-Muʼminīn. [10 Shawwāl 3 September 1816, 1231] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016404993/.

APA citation style:

Bursī, R. I. M., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1231) Lawāmiʻ anwār al-tamjīd wa-jawāmiʻ asrārih. Mashāriq anwār al-yaqīn fī iẓhār ḥaqāʼiq Amīr al-Muʼminīn. [10 Shawwāl 3 September 1816] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016404993/.

MLA citation style:

Bursī, Rajab Ibn Muḥammad, Active 1372, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Lawāmiʻ anwār al-tamjīd wa-jawāmiʻ asrārih. Mashāriq anwār al-yaqīn fī iẓhār ḥaqāʼiq Amīr al-Muʼminīn. [10 Shawwāl 3 September 1816, 1231] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016404993/>.