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Manuscript/Mixed Material al-Anwār fīmā yamnaḥu bi-hi ṣāḥib al-khalwah min asrār الأنوار فيما يمنح به صاحب الخلوة من اسرار

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Title

  • al-Anwār fīmā yamnaḥu bi-hi ṣāḥib al-khalwah min asrār

Other Title

  • الأنوار فيما يمنح به صاحب الخلوة من اسرار

Summary

  • Early treatise on sufism.

Names

  • Ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [17th century]

Headings

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

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Caption title on fol. 1a.
  • -  Scribe not identified.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; unpolished, cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and watermark of three crescent moons in a row in descending order of size; black ink with rubrication; extensive marginal notes; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, GI, 443.21
  • -  Naskh; 17 lines in written area 15.5 x 9 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-12a.
  • -  "25. III 1439 = 3.698."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 3-698.
  • -  Binding; dark brown quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name in lower right corner of cover.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة. قال الشيخ الامام العامل الصدر الكامل محى الدين شرف الاسلام ابو عبد الله محمد بن علي بن محمد بن العربي الطائي الخاتمي الاندلسي رحمه الله تعالى امين.
  • -  Explicit: تمت رسالة الانوار فيما يمنح به صاحب الخلوة الاسرار وصلاة والسلام على سيدنا محمد النبي المختار واله وصحبه السادة الاختار وسلم تسليما كثيرا دايما ابد امين.

Medium

  • 12 leaves (17 lines), paper : bound ; 22.8 x 16.5 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP188.9 .I25 1600z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016496427

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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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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Ibn Al-ʻArabī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. al-Anwār fīmā yamnaḥu bi-hi ṣāḥib al-khalwah min asrār. [17th Century] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496427/.

APA citation style:

Ibn Al-ʻArabī, Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. al-Anwār fīmā yamnaḥu bi-hi ṣāḥib al-khalwah min asrār. [17th Century] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496427/.

MLA citation style:

Ibn Al-ʻArabī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. al-Anwār fīmā yamnaḥu bi-hi ṣāḥib al-khalwah min asrār. [17th Century] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496427/>.