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Manuscript/Mixed Material Masʼalah fī al-ʻaql wa-al-rūḥ مسألة في العقل والروح / LC card file lists title as: Risālah fī al-ruḥ wa-al-nafs / Fol. 1b: Sayl Shaykh ... Ibn Taymiyah ʻan al-ʻaql alladhī lil-insān hal huwa ʻawad wa-mā hiya al-rūḥ al-mudabbirah li-jasadihi hal hiya al-nafs wa-hal la-hā kayfīyah

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Title

  • Masʼalah fī al-ʻaql wa-al-rūḥ

Other Title

  • مسألة في العقل والروح
  • LC card file lists title as: Risālah fī al-ruḥ wa-al-nafs
  • Fol. 1b: Sayl Shaykh ... Ibn Taymiyah ʻan al-ʻaql alladhī lil-insān hal huwa ʻawad wa-mā hiya al-rūḥ al-mudabbirah li-jasadihi hal hiya al-nafs wa-hal la-hā kayfīyah

Summary

  • Treatise in answer to questions about the soul and the intellect.

Names

  • Ibn Taymīyah, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm, 1263-1328
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [early 18th century?]

Headings

  • -  Soul--Islam--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a.
  • -  Scribe not identified.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; heavy, unpolished tan laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; black ink; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, SII, p. 119.ff
  • -  "20. III 1198 = 3.455."
  • -  Naskh; 17 lines in written area 14.5 x 10 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-19b.
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 3-455.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with navy blue grain sides.
  • -  ‏Incipit: البسملة. الحمد لله رب العالمين. سيل شيخالاسلام الامام العلامة تقي الدين احمد بن عبد الحليم بن عبد السلام بن تيمية ...
  • -  ‏Explicit/Colophon: وهذا مقدار ما وسعته هذه الاوراق والله اعلم. تمت بحمد لله.

Medium

  • 19 leaves (17 lines), paper : bound ; 18.8 x 13.5 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP166.73 .I235 1700z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016496394

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

Additional Metadata Formats

IIIF Presentation Manifest

Rights & Access

The contents of the Library of Congress Arabic Language Rare Materials Collection are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions and are free to use and reuse.

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:

Ibn Taymīyah, Aḥmad Ibn ʻAbd Al-Ḥalīm, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Masʼalah Fī Al-ʻaql Wa-Al-Rūḥ. [Early 18th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496394/.

APA citation style:

Ibn Taymīyah, A. I. ʻ. A., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. Masʼalah Fī Al-ʻaql Wa-Al-Rūḥ. [Early 18th Century?] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496394/.

MLA citation style:

Ibn Taymīyah, Aḥmad Ibn ʻAbd Al-Ḥalīm, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Masʼalah Fī Al-ʻaql Wa-Al-Rūḥ. [Early 18th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496394/>.