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Manuscript/Mixed Material Risālah fī al-taṣawwuf رسالة في التصوف /

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Title

  • Risālah fī al-taṣawwuf

Other Title

  • رسالة في التصوف /

Summary

  • A brief treatise on sufism and a commentary on al-Būṣīrī's Burdah by al-Qayṣarī.

Names

  • Qayṣarī, Dāwūd ibn Maḥmūd, -1350 or 1351
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [18th century?]

Contents

  • Risālah fī al-taṣawwuf -- Sharḥ Qaṣīdat al-Burdah.

Headings

  • -  Sufism--Early works to 1800
  • -  Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd,--1213?-1296?--Burdah
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Cover title.
  • -  Scribe not identified.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; unpolished cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; black ink; minor damage to the lower part of a number of pages with some loss of text; appended it main text is al-Qayṣarī's "Sharḥ Qaṣīdat al-Burdah"; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, GII, p. 231.1
  • -  Naskh; 15 lines in written area 15.5 x 8 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-24a, 24b-29a.
  • -  "22. III 1311 = 3.571."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 3-571.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name in lower right corner of cover.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة. الحمد لله الذي تجلى بذاته لذاته واظهر حقايق صفات وابدع بمفاتيح جوده وكرمه مظاهرها الغيبية في عين ذاته ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: وهذا آخر ما ازادنا بيانهمن المقدمات وبالله المسعان وبمحمد رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وسلم.

Medium

  • 29 leaves (15 lines), paper : bound ; 21 x 14 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP188.9 .Q29 1700z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016496816

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

Additional Metadata Formats

IIIF Presentation Manifest

Rights & Access

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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:

Qayṣarī, Dāwūd Ibn Maḥmūd, -1350 Or 1351, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Risālah Fī Al-Taṣawwuf. [18th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496816/.

APA citation style:

Qayṣarī, D. I. M., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. Risālah Fī Al-Taṣawwuf. [18th Century?] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496816/.

MLA citation style:

Qayṣarī, Dāwūd Ibn Maḥmūd, -1350 Or 1351, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Risālah Fī Al-Taṣawwuf. [18th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496816/>.