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Manuscript/Mixed Material Manẓūmah fī al-tawḥīd li-Ibn al-Ghars. Sharḥ al-ḥikam al-mansūbah lil-Imām ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib / Muḥammad al-ʻAjamī al-Shāfiʻī منظومة في التوحيد لابن الغرس. شرح الحكم المنسوبة للامام علي بن ابي طالب / محمد العجمي الشافعي

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Title

  • Manẓūmah fī al-tawḥīd li-Ibn al-Ghars. Sharḥ al-ḥikam al-mansūbah lil-Imām ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib / Muḥammad al-ʻAjamī al-Shāfiʻī

Other Title

  • منظومة في التوحيد لابن الغرس. شرح الحكم المنسوبة للامام علي بن ابي طالب / محمد العجمي الشافعي

Summary

  • Muḥammad Khalīli's poem on divine attributes and al-ʻAjamī's commentary on the sayings of Alī ibn Abī Ṭalib.

Names

  • Khalīlī, Muḥammad Ghars al-Dīn ibn Ghars al-Dīn, -1648 or 1649
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • ʻAjamī al-Shāfiʻī, Muḥammad
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 2 Rabīʻ al-akhir 1264 [8 March 1848]

Contents

  • Fol. 1b-13b. Manẓūmah fī al-tawḥīd li-Ibn al-Ghars -- fol. 13b-18b. Sharḥ al-Ḥikam al-mansūbah lil-Imām ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib / Muḥammad al-ʻAjamī al-Shāfiʻī.

Headings

  • -  God (Islam)--Attributes
  • -  ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib,--Caliph,--approximately 600-661.--Ḥikam
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from cover (1st work); title from fol. 13b (2nd work).
  • -  Written by Ḥusayn Muḥammad al-Mallawānī.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and watermark of a crescent moon with a human face within a lozenge shaped shield and the contermark A G [Andrea Galvani], black ink with rubrication; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, SII, p. 510
  • -  Naskh; 23 lines in written area 17.5 x 10 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-18b.
  • -  "13. III 901 = 3.158."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 3-158.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name in lower right corner of cover.
  • -  Incipit (1st work): البسملة وبه نستعين. الحمد لله حمدا يليف بدايته في مراتب السمايه وصفاته من حيث انه الحامد في المظهر الزايد ... اما بعد فيقول العبد الفقير محمد غرس الدين بن غرس الدين الخليلي ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon (1st work): تمت بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه والله اعلم بالصواب. تم.
  • -  Incipit (2nd work): البسملة. الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه اجمعينز وبعد فهذا شرح الحكم المنسورة للامام علي بن ابي طالب ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon (2nd work): وكان الفراغ من هذه النسخة المباركة يوم الجمعة ثاني ربيع الاخر سنة 1264 على يد الفقير حسين محمد الملواني غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمن يقول امينز تم.

Medium

  • 18 leaves (23 lines), paper : bound ; 22.5 x 16.5 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP166.2 .K476 1848

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016496496

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Chicago citation style:

Khalīlī, Muḥammad Ghars Al-Dīn Ibn Ghars Al-Dīn, -1648 Or 1649, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, Muḥammad ʻAjamī Al-ShāfiʻĪ, and Mansuri Collection. Manẓūmah fī al-tawḥīd li-Ibn al-Ghars. Sharḥ al-ḥikam al-mansūbah lil-Imām ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib / Muḥammad al-ʻAjamī al-Shāfiʻī. [2 Rabīʻ al-akhir 8 March 1848, 1264] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496496/.

APA citation style:

Khalīlī, M. G. A. I. G. A., Manṣūrī, M. A., ʻAjamī Al-ShāfiʻĪ, M. & Mansuri Collection. (1264) Manẓūmah fī al-tawḥīd li-Ibn al-Ghars. Sharḥ al-ḥikam al-mansūbah lil-Imām ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib / Muḥammad al-ʻAjamī al-Shāfiʻī. [2 Rabīʻ al-akhir 8 March 1848] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496496/.

MLA citation style:

Khalīlī, Muḥammad Ghars Al-Dīn Ibn Ghars Al-Dīn, -1648 Or 1649, et al. Manẓūmah fī al-tawḥīd li-Ibn al-Ghars. Sharḥ al-ḥikam al-mansūbah lil-Imām ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib / Muḥammad al-ʻAjamī al-Shāfiʻī. [2 Rabīʻ al-akhir 8 March 1848, 1264] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496496/>.