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Manuscript/Mixed Material Radd al-ilḥād fī al-nuṭq bi-al-ḍād رد الإلحاد في النطق بالضاد

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Title

  • Radd al-ilḥād fī al-nuṭq bi-al-ḍād

Other Title

  • رد الإلحاد في النطق بالضاد

Summary

  • Treatise on the phonology of the Arabic letters ḍād and ẓāʼ.

Names

  • Manṣūrī, ʻAlī ibn Sulaymān, -1722
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • Rabīʻ al-awwal 1130 [February 1718]

Headings

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

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1b.
  • -  Scribe not identified.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; lightly polished, light cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and a complex watermark consisting of a crown, a cluster of grapes, and a vertical cartouche with indistinct letters; text enclosed in a ruled border of two thin red lines on fol. 1b and 2a, and a single red line throughout the rest of the work; black ink with red dots separating sentences and some red overlining; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, SII, p. 974.1
  • -  Naskh; 13 lines in written area 13.5 x 7.3 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-19a.
  • -  "4. I 240 = 1.282."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 1-282.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name in lower right corner of cover.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة. الحمد لله وكفى وسلام على عباده الذين اصطفى ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: وفي هذه القدر كفاية لاصحاب الرواية والدراية حرر في شهر ربيع الاول سنة ثلثين ومائة والف. وصلى الله وسلم على سيد المرسلين وعلى آله وصحبه اجمعين.

Medium

  • 19 leaves (13 lines), paper : bound ; 21 x 14 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PJ6121.35 .M36 1718

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016496605

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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IIIF Presentation Manifest

Rights & Access

The contents of the Library of Congress Arabic Language Rare Materials Collection are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions and are free to use and reuse.

Credit Line: Library of Congress, African and Middle East Division, Near East Section Arabic Language Rare Materials Collection

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Chicago citation style:

Manṣūrī, ʻAlī Ibn Sulaymān, -1722, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Radd Al-Ilḥād Fī Al-Nuṭq Bi-Al-Ḍād. [Rabīʻ al-awwal 18, 1130] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496605/.

APA citation style:

Manṣūrī, ʻ. I. S., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1130) Radd Al-Ilḥād Fī Al-Nuṭq Bi-Al-Ḍād. [Rabīʻ al-awwal 18] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496605/.

MLA citation style:

Manṣūrī, ʻAlī Ibn Sulaymān, -1722, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Radd Al-Ilḥād Fī Al-Nuṭq Bi-Al-Ḍād. [Rabīʻ al-awwal 18, 1130] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496605/>.