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Manuscript/Mixed Material al-Alfayn al-fāriq bayna al-ṣidq wa-al-mayn الألفين الفارق بين الصدق والمين / Title on fol. 1a: Alfayn lil-ʻallāmah al-Muṭahhar

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Title

  • al-Alfayn al-fāriq bayna al-ṣidq wa-al-mayn

Other Title

  • الألفين الفارق بين الصدق والمين
  • Title on fol. 1a: Alfayn lil-ʻallāmah al-Muṭahhar

Summary

  • Doctrinal treatise on ʻAlī and the Imamate.

Names

  • Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī, al-Ḥasan ibn Yūsuf, 1250-1325
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [17th century]

Headings

  • -  ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib,--Caliph,--approximately 600-661--Imamate
  • -  Imamate--Early works to 1800
  • -  Shīʻah--Doctrines--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from spine.
  • -  Scribe not identified.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; greyish cream color laid paper with vertical laid lines and no visible chain lines or watermarks; black ink with rubrication and overlining; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, SII, p. 208.21
  • -  Naskh; 20 lines in written area 14.5 x 7.3 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-48a.
  • -  "18. III 1116 = 3.375."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 3-375.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name at base of spine.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة. الحمد لله مظهر الحق بنصب الادلة الواضحة و البراهىن القاطعة ... اما بعد فان اضعف عباد الله حسن ين يوسف با المطهر الحلي ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: ... ذلك والعصمة الموجبة لمنعة منفية فيكون فلك ممكنا فيه.

Medium

  • 48 leaves (20 lines), paper : bound ; 22.9 x 13.7 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP193.1 .I13 1600z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016503217

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Ibn Al-Muṭahhar Al-Ḥillī, Al-Ḥasan Ibn Yūsuf, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. al-Alfayn al-fāriq bayna al-ṣidq wa-al-mayn. [17th Century] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016503217/.

APA citation style:

Ibn Al-Muṭahhar Al-Ḥillī, A. I. Y., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. al-Alfayn al-fāriq bayna al-ṣidq wa-al-mayn. [17th Century] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016503217/.

MLA citation style:

Ibn Al-Muṭahhar Al-Ḥillī, Al-Ḥasan Ibn Yūsuf, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. al-Alfayn al-fāriq bayna al-ṣidq wa-al-mayn. [17th Century] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016503217/>.