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Manuscript/Mixed Material Kitāb fī al-Hayʼah ʻalá ṭarīq al-sunnah wa-al-jam̄ʻah كتاب الهيئة على طريق السنة والجماعة /

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Title

  • Kitāb fī al-Hayʼah ʻalá ṭarīq al-sunnah wa-al-jam̄ʻah

Other Title

  • كتاب الهيئة على طريق السنة والجماعة /

Summary

  • Commentary on al-Suyūṭī's treatise Hayʼah al-sanīyah fī al-hayʼah al-sunnīyah along with Birgivī Mehmet Efendi's Tuḥfat al-mustarshidīn fī madhāhib al-firaq al-Muslimīn on Islamic sects.

Names

  • Qaramānī, Ibrāhīm, active 17th century
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Birgivî Mehmet Efendi, approximately 1522-1573
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • middle of Jumādá al-akhir 1152 [September 1739]

Contents

  • Fol. 1b-29a. Kitāb fī al-Hayʼah ʻalá ṭarīq al-sunnah wa-al-jam̄ʻah / li-Ibrāhīm al-Qaramānī thumma al-Āmidī -- fol. 30a-36a. Tuḥfat al-mustarshidīn fī madhāhib al-firaq al-Muslimīn / [Birgivi Mehmet Efendi].

Headings

  • -  Suyūṭī,--1445-1505.--Hayʾah al-sanīyah fī al-hayʾah al-sunnīyah
  • -  Islamic cosmology--Early works to 1800
  • -  Islamic sects--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from cover.
  • -  Written by Muḥammad ibn Ramaḍān.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and watermark of three crescent moons in a row in descending order of size; black ink; catchwords.
  • -  Colophon states that al-Qaramānī finished this work in Rabīʻ al-akhir 1967 (January/February 1657).
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, SII, p. 185.66.b (al-Qaramānī)
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, GII, p. 440.4 (Birgivī)
  • -  Naskh; 19 lines in written area 17 x 10.5 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-29a; fol. 30a-36a.
  • -  "22. III 1303 = 3.563."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 3-563.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name in lower right corner of cover.
  • -  Incipit (1st work): البسملة وبه نستعين. الحمد لله الذي خلق السموات والارض وجميع العالم ... وبعد فيقول الفقير الى ربه الغني ارباهيم القرماني ثم الامدي لما طالعت كتاب الهئة على طريق السنة والجماعة للمولى العلامة ابي الفضل جلال الدين السيوطي ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon (1st work): نمقه الفقير الى المولى المنان محمد بن الفقير رمضان في نصف جمادى الاخر سنة 1152 غفر الله له ولوالديه ولجميع المسلمين امين.
  • -  Incipit (2nd work): البسملة وبه نستعينز الحمد لله الذي ارانا ... وبعد هذا مختصرات في بيان طرف من مقالات ... وسمةتها بتحفة المسترشدين في مذاهب الفرق المسلمين ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon (2nd work): تمت بعون الله امين.

Medium

  • 36 leaves (19 lines), paper : bound ; 21.6 x 15.5 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP166.23.S933 Q37 1739

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016496788

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Qaramānī, Ibrāhīm, Active 17Th Century, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, Approximately Birgivî Mehmet Efendi, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb fī al-Hayʼah ʻalá ṭarīq al-sunnah wa-al-jam̄ʻah. [middle of Jumādá al-akhir 39, 1152] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496788/.

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Qaramānī, I., Manṣūrī, M. A., Birgivî Mehmet Efendi, A. & Mansuri Collection. (1152) Kitāb fī al-Hayʼah ʻalá ṭarīq al-sunnah wa-al-jam̄ʻah. [middle of Jumādá al-akhir 39] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496788/.

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Qaramānī, Ibrāhīm, Active 17Th Century, et al. Kitāb fī al-Hayʼah ʻalá ṭarīq al-sunnah wa-al-jam̄ʻah. [middle of Jumādá al-akhir 39, 1152] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496788/>.