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Manuscript/Mixed Material Hādhā kitāb Fuṣūs al-ḥikam min muʼallafāt Shaykh al-ʻArabī al-mashhūr bayna al-umam هذا كتاب فصوس الحكم من مؤلفات شيخ العربي المشهور بين الأمم

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Title

  • Hādhā kitāb Fuṣūs al-ḥikam min muʼallafāt Shaykh al-ʻArabī al-mashhūr bayna al-umam

Other Title

  • هذا كتاب فصوس الحكم من مؤلفات شيخ العربي المشهور بين الأمم

Summary

  • Early treatise on sufi doctrine.

Names

  • Ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 12 Jumādá al-ūlá 1177 [18 November 1763]

Headings

  • -  Sufism--Doctrines--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Caption title.
  • -  Scribe not identified.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; highly polished cream color paper; black ink with rubrication and some overlining; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, SI, p. 792
  • -  Naskh; 16 lines in written area 14.5 x 7.5 cm.
  • -  Page 2-168 (numbered by scribe).
  • -  "H-0435 = 3.369."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 3-369.
  • -  Binding; black half leather with black grain sides and flap; envelope binding; text block not attached to binding.
  • -  ‏Incipit: البسملة وبه نستعين. الحمد لله منزل الحكم على قلوب الحلم باحدية الطريق الامم من المقام الاقدم وان اختلف الملل والنحل لاختلاف الامم ...
  • -  ‏Explicit: قد فرغ من تسويد هذا الكتاب المسمى بفصوص الحكم في سوم الثلثا الاثنى عشر شهر جمادى الاولى 1177.

Medium

  • 168 pages (16 lines), paper : bound ; 21.5 x 14 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP189.26 .I25 1763

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2017454671

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

Additional Metadata Formats

IIIF Presentation Manifest

Rights & Access

The contents of the Library of Congress Arabic Language Rare Materials Collection are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions and are free to use and reuse.

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:

Ibn Al-ʻArabī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Hādhā kitāb Fuṣūs al-ḥikam min muʼallafāt Shaykh al-ʻArabī al-mashhūr bayna al-umam. [12 Jumādá al-ūlá 18 November 1763, 1763] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017454671/.

APA citation style:

Ibn Al-ʻArabī, Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1763) Hādhā kitāb Fuṣūs al-ḥikam min muʼallafāt Shaykh al-ʻArabī al-mashhūr bayna al-umam. [12 Jumādá al-ūlá 18 November 1763] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017454671/.

MLA citation style:

Ibn Al-ʻArabī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Hādhā kitāb Fuṣūs al-ḥikam min muʼallafāt Shaykh al-ʻArabī al-mashhūr bayna al-umam. [12 Jumādá al-ūlá 18 November 1763, 1763] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2017454671/>.