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Manuscript/Mixed Material Rasāʼil al-Sayyid Murtaḍá al-Anṣārī maktūbah sanat 676 nafīsah fī al-risālah allatī qabla al-akhīrah innahā bi-ḥaṭṭ al-muʼallif رسائل السيد مرتضى الانصاري مكتوبة سنة 676 نفيسية في الرسالة التي قبل الاخيرة انها بخط المؤلف / Majmūʻat rasāʼil 12 ʻalá madhhab al-Shīʻah / Also called: Masāʼil al-Murtadá / LC card file lists title as: Majmūʻah bi-hā 12 risālah fī madhhab al-Shīʻah

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Title

  • Rasāʼil al-Sayyid Murtaḍá al-Anṣārī maktūbah sanat 676 nafīsah fī al-risālah allatī qabla al-akhīrah innahā bi-ḥaṭṭ al-muʼallif

Other Title

  • رسائل السيد مرتضى الانصاري مكتوبة سنة 676 نفيسية في الرسالة التي قبل الاخيرة انها بخط المؤلف
  • Majmūʻat rasāʼil 12 ʻalá madhhab al-Shīʻah
  • Also called: Masāʼil al-Murtadá
  • LC card file lists title as: Majmūʻah bi-hā 12 risālah fī madhhab al-Shīʻah

Summary

  • Collection of twelve essays on various aspects of Shīʻah theology and law; most texts have colophons with the date of composition, all from the 670s A.H. (1270s C.E.).

Names

  • Sharīf al-Murtaḍá, ʻAlam al-Hudá ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn, 966-1044 or 1045
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [18th century?]

Contents

  • 1. Masāʼil wa-ajwibatuhā fī uṣūl al-kalām -- 2. Masāʼil wa-ajwibatuhā fī ʻilm al-kalām -- 3. Baḥth masʼalat ithbāt al-shuhūr bi-al [?[ wa-bi-al-zawʼīyah -- 4. Masāʼil al-fiqhīyah wa-ajwibatuhā -- 5. Masāʼil al-fiqhīyah allatī infaradat bi-hā al-Shīʻah al-Imāmīyah -- 6. Masāʼil fiqhīyah wa-ajwibatuhā -- 7. al-Khabr wa-sharḥuhu (ḥall rumūz bayna Abī al-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī wa-al-Sayyid al-Murtaḍá -- 8. Baḥth fī al-imāmah wa-kayfiyat ḥuṣūl al-luṭf bi-hā, wa-masāʼil ukhrá kalāmīyah -- 9. Faṣl fī radd ʻala man tablaqá min al-munajjimīn ah;ām al-nujūm min al-ṭabāʼiʻ wa-yaqūl mā fī al-ʻālam al-ʻulwī khārij ʻan al-ṭabāʼiʻ -- 10. Masāʼil kalāmīyah fiʼ al-imāmah wa-ghayrihā --11. al-ʻIqd wa-al-ajmāl fī bayān wujūh al-afʻāl -- 12. Naqḍ masāʼil al-kalāmīyah.

Headings

  • -  Shīʻah--Doctrines--Miscellanea
  • -  Islamic law--Miscellanea
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a.
  • -  Scribe not identified.
  • -  Author's name from colophon of third work from the end.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; light tan laid paper with faint horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; ms. has been repaired fol. 1-24 and fo. 145b to the end on lower inside corner of each page resulting in some loss of text; black ink with rubrication; catchwords.
  • -  Small naskh; 20 lines in written area 15 x 8 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-188b.
  • -  "23. III 1319 = 3.579."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 3-579.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name at base of spine.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة. بحمد الله نستفتح كل قول نستعين على كل عمل وبانولرهدايته نسترشد ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: وتامل هذا الجواب عرف انهم لم يرجا في ذلك الى تحقيف المولف ولا المناقص قد اتينا على نقيض ما سال المسايل يقصه مع تسعب الفكر وكثرة الاشغال والله المنة.

Medium

  • 188 leaves (20 lines), paper : bound ; 23.5 x 15.7 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP194 .S46 1700z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016496565

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

Additional Metadata Formats

IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Sharīf Al-Murtaḍá, ʻAlam Al-Hudá ʻAlī Ibn Al-Ḥusayn, 966-1044 Or 1045, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Rasāʼil al-Sayyid Murtaḍá al-Anṣārī maktūbah sanat 676 nafīsah fī al-risālah allatī qabla al-akhīrah innahā bi-ḥaṭṭ al-muʼallif. [18th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496565/.

APA citation style:

Sharīf Al-Murtaḍá, ʻ. A. ʻ. I. A., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. Rasāʼil al-Sayyid Murtaḍá al-Anṣārī maktūbah sanat 676 nafīsah fī al-risālah allatī qabla al-akhīrah innahā bi-ḥaṭṭ al-muʼallif. [18th Century?] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496565/.

MLA citation style:

Sharīf Al-Murtaḍá, ʻAlam Al-Hudá ʻAlī Ibn Al-Ḥusayn, 966-1044 Or 1045, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Rasāʼil al-Sayyid Murtaḍá al-Anṣārī maktūbah sanat 676 nafīsah fī al-risālah allatī qabla al-akhīrah innahā bi-ḥaṭṭ al-muʼallif. [18th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496565/>.