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Manuscript/Mixed Material Kitāb Fuṣūs al-ḥikam lil-Shakh al-Akbar كتاب فصوس الحكم للشيخ الاكبر

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Title

  • Kitāb Fuṣūs al-ḥikam lil-Shakh al-Akbar

Other Title

  • كتاب فصوس الحكم للشيخ الاكبر

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

  • [18th century]

Headings

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

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a.
  • -  Scribe not identified.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; lightly polished cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and an elaborate armorial watermark containing the initials O A C (or G); folral unwan in gold and red with red and blue floral designs above; text with a ruled border of a single red line; black ink with rubrication and some overlining; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, SI, p. 792
  • -  Naskh; 27 lines in written area 17.5 x 9.5 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-54a.
  • -  "H-0434 = 3.368."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 3-368.
  • -  Binding; black half leather with black grain sides and flap; envelope binding; text block not attached to binding.
  • -  ‏Incipit: البسملة. الحمد لله منزل الحكم على قلوب الحلم باحدية الطريق الامم من المقام الاقدم وان اختلف الملل والنحل لاختلاف الامم ...
  • -  ‏Explicit: تمت بعون الجميل.

Medium

  • 54 leaves (27 lines), paper : bound ; 22.7 x 15 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP189.26 .I25 1700z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2017454672

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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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:

Ibn Al-ʻArabī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb Fuṣūs al-ḥikam lil-Shakh al-Akbar. [18th Century, 1700] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017454672/.

APA citation style:

Ibn Al-ʻArabī, Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1700) Kitāb Fuṣūs al-ḥikam lil-Shakh al-Akbar. [18th Century] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017454672/.

MLA citation style:

Ibn Al-ʻArabī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb Fuṣūs al-ḥikam lil-Shakh al-Akbar. [18th Century, 1700] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2017454672/>.