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Manuscript/Mixed Material Nihāyat al-marām fī ʻilm al-kalām : [wa] Minhāj al-karāmah li-maʻrifat al-imāmah نهاية المرام في علم الكلام : [و] منهاج الكرامة لمعرفة الامامة / Muqaddimah fī ʻilm al-kalām, wa-yalīh, Minhaj al-karāmah fī maʻrifat al-amānah kilāhumā li-Shaykh al-rāḍifah al-Ḥillī

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Title

  • Nihāyat al-marām fī ʻilm al-kalām : [wa] Minhāj al-karāmah li-maʻrifat al-imāmah

Other Title

  • نهاية المرام في علم الكلام : [و] منهاج الكرامة لمعرفة الامامة
  • Muqaddimah fī ʻilm al-kalām, wa-yalīh, Minhaj al-karāmah fī maʻrifat al-amānah kilāhumā li-Shaykh al-rāḍifah al-Ḥillī

Summary

  • Two treatises by Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī on Shiite theology 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

  • [late 17th century?]

Contents

  • Fol. 1b-19a. Nihāyat al-marām fī ʻilm al-kalām (incomplete) -- fol. 19b-104b. Minhāj al-karāmah li-maʻrifat al-imāmah.

Headings

  • -  God (Islam)--Doctrines--Early works to 1800
  • -  Shīʻah--Doctrines--Early works to 1800
  • -  Imamate--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Titles from individual works in the volume.
  • -  Written by Jābir ibn Aḥmad al-Karbalāʼī ibn ʻAṭāʼ.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; slighly yellowed medium cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible chain lines or watermarks; black ink with rubrication; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, GII, p. 164.6
  • -  Naskh; 15 lines in written area 12.5 x 6.5 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-19a; fol. 19b-104b.
  • -  "16. III 995 = 3.255."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 3-255.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name at base of spine.
  • -  Incipit (1st work): ... معه العوض واختلفت العدلية في العوض على الالم الصادر عن غير العاقل ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon (1st work): هذه المقدمة من اراد المكويل غعليه بكتابنا المسمى بنهاية المرام في علم الكلام ومن اراد التوسط فعليه بكتاب المسمى بمنتهى الالمصول ومناهج الوصل وغيرهما ...
  • -  Incipit (2nd work): البسملة. الحمد لله القديم الواحد الكريم المقدس بكماله عى الشريك والضد والمعاند المنزة بوجوده عا الوالدة والصاحبة ... اما بعد فهذه رسالة شريفة ومقالة لطيفة قد استمله على اهم المطالب في احكام الدين اشرف مسائل المسلمين وهي مسئلة الامامة ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon (2nd work): تمت الرسالة الشرهفة على يد العبد المذنب المجرم المقر بذنب... الجابر بن احمد الكربلائي ابن عطا وسلم.

Medium

  • 104 leaves (15 lines), paper : bound ; 20.3 x 14.3 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP194 .I2445 1600z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016503219

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Ibn Al-Muṭahhar Al-Ḥillī, Al-Ḥasan Ibn Yūsuf, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Nihāyat al-marām fī ʻilm al-kalām: wa Minhāj al-karāmah li-maʻrifat al-imāmah. [Late 17th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016503219/.

APA citation style:

Ibn Al-Muṭahhar Al-Ḥillī, A. I. Y., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. Nihāyat al-marām fī ʻilm al-kalām: wa Minhāj al-karāmah li-maʻrifat al-imāmah. [Late 17th Century?] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016503219/.

MLA citation style:

Ibn Al-Muṭahhar Al-Ḥillī, Al-Ḥasan Ibn Yūsuf, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Nihāyat al-marām fī ʻilm al-kalām: wa Minhāj al-karāmah li-maʻrifat al-imāmah. [Late 17th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016503219/>.