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Manuscript/Mixed Material Hādhā Sharḥ al-Risālah al-Raslānīyah هذا شرح الرسالة الرسلانية / / Sharḥ Zakarīyā ʻalá Risālat Raslān al-Dimashqī / Title on fol. 1b: Fatḥ al-raḥmān bi-sharḥ Risālat al-walī Raslān

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Title

  • Hādhā Sharḥ al-Risālah al-Raslānīyah

Other Title

  • هذا شرح الرسالة الرسلانية /
  • Sharḥ Zakarīyā ʻalá Risālat Raslān al-Dimashqī
  • Title on fol. 1b: Fatḥ al-raḥmān bi-sharḥ Risālat al-walī Raslān

Summary

  • Zakarīyā al-Anṣārī's commentary on the Sufi treatise Risālah fī al-tawḥīd by al-Jaʻbarī.

Names

  • Anṣārī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1423-approximately 1520
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 21 Rajab 1013 [13 December 1604]

Headings

  • -  Jaʻbarī, Arslān ibn Yaʻqūb,---1300.--Risālah fī al-tawḥīd
  • -  Sufism--Early works to 1800
  • -  Sufism--Doctrines--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a.
  • -  Written by Yūsuf al-Maghribī.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper: yellowed, polished cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; black ink with rubrication; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, GI, p. 452
  • -  Naskh; 17 lines in written area 15.5 x 8.5 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-14b.
  • -  "13. III 872 = 3.129."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 3-129.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name in lower right corner of cover.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة وبه ثقتي. قال سيدنا ومولانا شيخ المشايخ الاسلام والمسلمين زين الملة والدين ابو يحيى زكريا الانصاري الشافعي ... وبعد فان علم التوحيد من اشرف العلوم بل اشرفها وتما فيه الرسالة الرسلانية ... وسميته بفتح الرحمن بشرح رسالة الولي رسلان ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: ... يوم الاحد وعشرين في رجب عام 1013 وكتبه الفقير يوسف المغربي عفى عنه.

Medium

  • 14 leaves (17 lines), paper : bound ; 21.7 x 16 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP188.9.J253 A57 1604

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016503208

Online Format

  • pdf
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Anṣārī, Zakarīyā Ibn Muḥammad, Approximately Approximately 1520, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Hādhā Sharḥ al-Risālah al-Raslānīyah. [21 Rajab 13 December 1604, 1013] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016503208/.

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Anṣārī, Z. I. M., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1013) Hādhā Sharḥ al-Risālah al-Raslānīyah. [21 Rajab 13 December 1604] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016503208/.

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Anṣārī, Zakarīyā Ibn Muḥammad, Approximately Approximately 1520, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Hādhā Sharḥ al-Risālah al-Raslānīyah. [21 Rajab 13 December 1604, 1013] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016503208/>.