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Manuscript/Mixed Material Risālah fī al-taqwá رسالة في التقوى

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Title

  • Risālah fī al-taqwá

Other Title

  • رسالة في التقوى

Summary

  • An abridgement of Birgivî Mehmet Efendi's Ṭarīqah al-Muḥammadīyah followed by a short, anonymous treatise on hadith found in the Ṣahīḥ of al-Bukhārī.

Names

  • Birgivî Mehmet Efendi, approximately 1522-1573
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [18th century?]

Contents

  • Fol. 1b-23b. Risālah fī al-taqwá -- fol. 24b-27a. [Anonymous commentary on hadith contained in the Ṣaḥīḥ of al-Bukhārī].

Headings

  • -  Islam--Doctrines--Early works to 1800
  • -  Religious life--Islam--Early works to 1800
  • -  Bukhārī, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʻīl,--810-870.--Jāmiʻ al-ṣaḥīḥ
  • -  Hadith--Criticism, interpretation, etc.--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; slightly yellowed, cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; black ink.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, GII, p. 441
  • -  Taʻlīq script; 17 lines in written area 14.5 x 7.5 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-23b; 24b-27b.
  • -  "16. III 1027 = 3.287."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 3-287.
  • -  Binding; black half leather with black grain sides and flap; envelope binding; text block not attached to binding.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة. الحمد لله الذي اخ_ للمستقين ... وبعده فهذه رسالة في التقوى انتخبتها من كتاب الطريقة المحمدية والسيرة الاحمدية للعالم الرباني والعامل الصمد ابي محي الملة والدين الشيخ محمد البركاوي ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب واليه المرجع والمآب.

Medium

  • 27 leaves (17 lines), paper : bound ; 22 x 16.5 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP188 .B562 1700z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016496722

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Birgivî Mehmet Efendi, Approximately, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Risālah Fī Al-Taqwá. [18th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496722/.

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Birgivî Mehmet Efendi, A., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. Risālah Fī Al-Taqwá. [18th Century?] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496722/.

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Birgivî Mehmet Efendi, Approximately, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Risālah Fī Al-Taqwá. [18th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496722/>.