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Manuscript/Mixed Material Nūr al-insān fī ishtiqāq lafẓ al-insān نور الإنسان في إشتقاق لفظ الإنسان /

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Title

  • Nūr al-insān fī ishtiqāq lafẓ al-insān

Other Title

  • نور الإنسان في إشتقاق لفظ الإنسان /

Summary

  • Treatise on the Islamic view of man.

Names

  • Ibn al-Ḥanbalī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, 1502 or 1503-1563
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 7 Rabīʻ al-thānī 1317 [16 July 1899]

Headings

  • -  Theological anthropology--Islam
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a.
  • -  Written by ʻAbd al-Muwaṭtá Ḥasan.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writng not determined; possibly Egypt.
  • -  Paper; unpolished, dark cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and the countermark of Andrea Galvani; black ink with rubrication.
  • -  Naskh; 25 lines in written area 18.5 x 11.5 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-3b.
  • -  "52. VI 2999 = 5.524."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-524.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name in lower right corner of cover.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة. الحمد لله مونس القلوب الانسانية بذكره، ومعيد العوائد الا حسانية اثرا شكره الذي ما ينسى من ذكره من العباد ولا يعزب عن علمه اسرار سرائر العباد ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: تمت هذه الرسالة كتابه على يد افقر العباد الى عفو الله مولا ذي المتن عبد الموطى حسن وذلك في اليوم السابع من ربيع الثاني الذي هو من شهور سنة الف وثلثماية وتسعة عشر من هجرة سيد البشر صلى الله عليه وسلم.

Medium

  • 3 leaves (25 lines), paper : bound ; 25 x 17 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP166.7 .I264 1899

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016496664

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-Ḥanbalī, Muḥammad Ibn Ibrāhīm, 1502 Or, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Nūr Al-Insān Fī Ishtiqāq Lafẓ Al-Insān. [7 Rabīʻ al-thānī 16 July 1899, 1317] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496664/.

APA citation style:

Ibn Al-Ḥanbalī, M. I. I., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1317) Nūr Al-Insān Fī Ishtiqāq Lafẓ Al-Insān. [7 Rabīʻ al-thānī 16 July 1899] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496664/.

MLA citation style:

Ibn Al-Ḥanbalī, Muḥammad Ibn Ibrāhīm, 1502 Or, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Nūr Al-Insān Fī Ishtiqāq Lafẓ Al-Insān. [7 Rabīʻ al-thānī 16 July 1899, 1317] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496664/>.