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Manuscript/Mixed Material Kitāb al-Ishaʻah li-ashrāṭ al-sāʻah كتاب الاشاعة لاشراط الساعة / / Ishāʻah li-ashrāt al-sāʻah lil-Sayyid Muḥammad al-Barzanjī

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Title

  • Kitāb al-Ishaʻah li-ashrāṭ al-sāʻah

Other Title

  • كتاب الاشاعة لاشراط الساعة /
  • Ishāʻah li-ashrāt al-sāʻah lil-Sayyid Muḥammad al-Barzanjī

Summary

  • Treatise on Islamic eschatology and Judgment Day.

Names

  • Barzanjī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Rasūl, 1630 or 1631-1691 or 1692
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 13 Shaʻbān 1154 [24 October 1741]

Contents

  • Fol. 1b-123b. Ishāʻah li-ashrāt al-sāʻah lil-Sayyid Muḥammad al-Barzanjī -- fol. 124b. [comments on the ressurection] -- fol. 125b. Khuṭbah jamʻīyah by an anonymous author.

Headings

  • -  Islamic eschatology--Early works to 1800
  • -  Judgment Day (Islam)--Early works to 1800
  • -  Mahdism--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a.
  • -  Written by Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir al-ʻAjāwī(?).
  • -  Colophon states that al-Barzanjī completed this work on 11 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1176 (15 May 1666).
  • -  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 with rubrication; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, GII, p. 389.4; SII 529.2
  • -  Naskh; 25 lines in written area 16 x 10 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-123b; 124b. 125b.
  • -  "24. III 1390 = 3.643."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 3-643.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name at base of spine.
  • -  Incipit: لبسملة وبه نستعين والصلاة والصلام ... احمد من اوضح منهاج الحق ونصب عليه في كل شيء دليلا ووعد وعد الصدق لمن اتخذه وكيلا ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: وكان الفراغ من تعليق هذه النسخة المباركة بين الصلاتين الصبحي والظهر نهار الاثنين ثالث عشر من شهر شعبان من شهور سنة اربعة وخمسين ومائة والف على يد الفقير الى الله تعالى ابراهيم بن احمد بن عبد القادر العجاوي غفر الله مه ولوالديه ولمن قرا بهم تلفاتحة ولكافة المسلمين امين.

Medium

  • 125 leaves (25 lines), paper : bound ; 22.5 x 16.7 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP166.85 .B367 1741

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016496927

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:

Barzanjī, Muḥammad Ibn ʻAbd Al-Rasūl, 1630 Or Or 1692, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb al-Ishaʻah li-ashrāṭ al-sāʻah. [13 Shaʻbān 24 October 1741, 1154] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496927/.

APA citation style:

Barzanjī, M. I. ʻ. A., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1154) Kitāb al-Ishaʻah li-ashrāṭ al-sāʻah. [13 Shaʻbān 24 October 1741] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496927/.

MLA citation style:

Barzanjī, Muḥammad Ibn ʻAbd Al-Rasūl, 1630 Or Or 1692, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb al-Ishaʻah li-ashrāṭ al-sāʻah. [13 Shaʻbān 24 October 1741, 1154] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496927/>.