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Manuscript/Mixed Material Hādhā al-risālah Tuḥfat al-safarah ilá ḥaḍrat al-bararah هذه الرسالة تحفة السفرة إلى حضرة البررة / Tuḥfat al-safarah ilá ḥaḍrat al-bararah li-Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn al-Bisṭāmī

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Title

  • Hādhā al-risālah Tuḥfat al-safarah ilá ḥaḍrat al-bararah

Other Title

  • هذه الرسالة تحفة السفرة إلى حضرة البررة
  • Tuḥfat al-safarah ilá ḥaḍrat al-bararah li-Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn al-Bisṭāmī

Summary

  • Commentary/paraphrase of Ibn al-ʻArabī's Tuḥfat al-safarah ilá ḥaḍrat al-bararah.

Names

  • Ibn al-Bisṭāmī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [late 17th century?]

Headings

  • -  Ibn al-ʻArabī,--1165-1240.--Tuḥfat al-safarah ilá ḥaḍrat al-bararah
  • -  Sufism--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a.
  • -  Scribe not identified.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; thick, slighly yellowed unpolished cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible watemarks; black ink with rubrication; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, GI. 444.26; SI, p. 796 (identified as Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Bisṭāmī)
  • -  Naskh; 15 lines in written area 15 x 9 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-15b.
  • -  "18. III 1095 = 3.353."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 3-353.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name in lower right corner of cover.
  • -  Incipit: البسمملة وبه نستعين. الحمد لله الذي نطق كل شيء بتسبحه والصلاة على رسوله وصفيه محمد المبعوث ... اما بعد فهذه رسالة مرتبة على عشرة ابواب وفصول مسماة بتحفة السفرة الى حضرة البررة ... لحضرة قوام الملة والدين ابي الفضل محمد بن عبد الحميد بن شيخ المسايخ البسطامي قدس سره الله ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: ... والحمد لله اولا زواخرا والصلوة والسلام على رسولنا باطنا وظاهرا. تمت بعون الله وحسن التوفيق.

Medium

  • 15 leaves (15 lines), paper : bound ; 21 x 14.5 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP189.26.I2663 I263 1600z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016496634

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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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:

Ibn Al-Bisṭāmī, Muḥammad Ibn ʻAbd Al-Ḥamīd, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Hādhā al-risālah Tuḥfat al-safarah ilá ḥaḍrat al-bararah. [Late 17th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496634/.

APA citation style:

Ibn Al-Bisṭāmī, M. I. ʻ. A., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. Hādhā al-risālah Tuḥfat al-safarah ilá ḥaḍrat al-bararah. [Late 17th Century?] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496634/.

MLA citation style:

Ibn Al-Bisṭāmī, Muḥammad Ibn ʻAbd Al-Ḥamīd, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Hādhā al-risālah Tuḥfat al-safarah ilá ḥaḍrat al-bararah. [Late 17th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496634/>.