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Manuscript/Mixed Material Kitāb Tuḥfat al-ʻulamāʼ al-ʻāmilīn bi-sharḥ asmāʼ Rabb al-ʻālamīn كتاب تحفة العلما العاملين بشرح اسماء رب العالمين / / Tuḥfat al-ʻulamāʼ al-ʻāmilīn bi-sharḥ asmāʼ Rabb al-ʻālamīn

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Title

  • Kitāb Tuḥfat al-ʻulamāʼ al-ʻāmilīn bi-sharḥ asmāʼ Rabb al-ʻālamīn

Other Title

  • كتاب تحفة العلما العاملين بشرح اسماء رب العالمين /
  • Tuḥfat al-ʻulamāʼ al-ʻāmilīn bi-sharḥ asmāʼ Rabb al-ʻālamīn

Summary

  • Treatise on the names of God.

Names

  • Anṣārī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1423-approximately 1520
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 15 Ṣafar 1185 [30 May 1771]

Headings

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

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a.
  • -  Written by Ismāʻīl ibn Mūsá al-Ṭayyibī.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; ink badly smeared on fol. 6b and 7a; some worm damage throughout; black ink; catchwords.
  • -  Naskh; 29 lines in written area 18 x 12.5 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-18b, 19a notes.
  • -  "18. III 1099 = 3.357."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 3-357.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name in lower right corner of cover.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم. عدد ما ذكره الذاكرون وغفل عن ذكره الغافلون. قال الفقير يوسف ابن الفقير زكريا الانصاري الخزرجي الشافعي لطف الله به ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: تم الشرح بسنة 1185 خامس عشر من شهر صفر المبارك على يد الفقير الحقير العاجز الضعيف الراجي لطف ربه الغني اسماعيل بن موسى الطيبي.

Medium

  • 19 leaves (29 lines), paper : bound ; 22.2 x 16.5 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP166.2 .A585 1771

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016496503

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Anṣārī, Zakarīyā Ibn Muḥammad, Approximately Approximately 1520, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb Tuḥfat al-ʻulamāʼ al-ʻāmilīn bi-sharḥ asmāʼ Rabb al-ʻālamīn. [15 Ṣafar 30 May 1771, 1185] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496503/.

APA citation style:

Anṣārī, Z. I. M., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1185) Kitāb Tuḥfat al-ʻulamāʼ al-ʻāmilīn bi-sharḥ asmāʼ Rabb al-ʻālamīn. [15 Ṣafar 30 May 1771] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496503/.

MLA citation style:

Anṣārī, Zakarīyā Ibn Muḥammad, Approximately Approximately 1520, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb Tuḥfat al-ʻulamāʼ al-ʻāmilīn bi-sharḥ asmāʼ Rabb al-ʻālamīn. [15 Ṣafar 30 May 1771, 1185] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496503/>.