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Manuscript/Mixed Material Risālah fī waḥdat al-wujūd li-Ḥusayn al-Tankānī [Takkānī?], wa-thāniyah fī wujūd wājib al-wujūd, thālithah fī raʼy Aflāṭūn wa-talmīdhihi Arisṭūṭālīs fī al-ṣuwar wa-al-mithl رسالة في وحدة الوجود لحسين التنكاني وثانية في وجود واجب الوجود وثالثة في رأي افلاطون وتلميذه ارسطوطاليس في الصور والمثل / LC card file lists title: Majmūʻah bi-hā Waḥdat al-wujūd li-al- wa-Wājib al-wujūd wa-al-ṣuwar wa-al-tamāthīl li-Aflāṭūn wa-Aristū

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Title

  • Risālah fī waḥdat al-wujūd li-Ḥusayn al-Tankānī [Takkānī?], wa-thāniyah fī wujūd wājib al-wujūd, thālithah fī raʼy Aflāṭūn wa-talmīdhihi Arisṭūṭālīs fī al-ṣuwar wa-al-mithl

Other Title

  • رسالة في وحدة الوجود لحسين التنكاني وثانية في وجود واجب الوجود وثالثة في رأي افلاطون وتلميذه ارسطوطاليس في الصور والمثل
  • LC card file lists title: Majmūʻah bi-hā Waḥdat al-wujūd li-al- wa-Wājib al-wujūd wa-al-ṣuwar wa-al-tamāthīl li-Aflāṭūn wa-Aristū

Summary

  • Three brief treatises on Islamic philosophy and metaphysics.

Names

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

Created / Published

  • [late 18th century?]

Headings

  • -  Islamic philosophy
  • -  Metaphysics
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)
  • -  Manuscripts, Persian--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Works one and three in Arabic; second work in Persian.
  • -  Cover title.
  • -  Scribe or scribes not identified.
  • -  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; black ink with some red overlining; thrid work is written diagonally; catchwords in the first work only.
  • -  Naskh and nastaʻliq; 16 lines in written area 11.5 x 5 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-7a, 8b-16b, 17a-21a.
  • -  "17. III 1073 = 3.332."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 3-332.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name in lower right corner of cover.
  • -  Incipit (1st work): البسملة. وباسمه قام كل شيء. الحمد لله الذي هو نور سموات العقول والنفوس وظهور افق الاجرام واعراضها المحسوس عنواه رسامة في وحدة الوجود ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon (1st work): ومن لم يبلغ الى هذه المرتبة من التوحيد فهو هاتم في منية الحيرة فهو هاتم منية الحيرة ولم يكن من الموحدين بالحقيقة والله اعلم بقائق الامور.
  • -  Incipit (2nd work): البسملة وبه ثقتي. الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على محمد وآله اجمعين ...
  • -  Incipit (3rd work): افوض امري الى الله. بعض من مقالة ابي نصر الفارابي في الجمع بين راس افلاطون وارسطوطاليسلصور والمثل ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon (3rd work): حتي تخرج هذه الكلمات منه والله اعلم بالصواب.

Medium

  • 21 leaves (16 lines), paper : bound ; 17 x 9.5 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • B741 .R57 1700z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016496572

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām, Former Owner, and Mansuri Collection. Risālah fī waḥdat al-wujūd li-Ḥusayn al-Tankānī Takkānī?, wa-thāniyah fī wujūd wājib al-wujūd, thālithah fī raʼy Aflāṭūn wa-talmīdhihi Arisṭūṭālīs fī al-ṣuwar wa-al-mithl. [Late 18th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496572/.

APA citation style:

Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. Risālah fī waḥdat al-wujūd li-Ḥusayn al-Tankānī Takkānī?, wa-thāniyah fī wujūd wājib al-wujūd, thālithah fī raʼy Aflāṭūn wa-talmīdhihi Arisṭūṭālīs fī al-ṣuwar wa-al-mithl. [Late 18th Century?] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496572/.

MLA citation style:

Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām, Former Owner, and Mansuri Collection. Risālah fī waḥdat al-wujūd li-Ḥusayn al-Tankānī Takkānī?, wa-thāniyah fī wujūd wājib al-wujūd, thālithah fī raʼy Aflāṭūn wa-talmīdhihi Arisṭūṭālīs fī al-ṣuwar wa-al-mithl. [Late 18th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496572/>.