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Manuscript/Mixed Material Risālah fī Nūr al-insān fī ishtiqāq lafẓ al-insān رسالة في نور الإنسان في إشتقاق لفظ الإنسان /

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Title

  • Risālah fī Nūr al-insān fī ishtiqāq lafẓ al-insān

Other Title

  • رسالة في نور الإنسان في إشتقاق لفظ الإنسان /

Summary

  • Treatise on the Islamic view of man.

Names

  • Ibn al-Ḥanbalī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, 1502 or 1503-1563
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [16th century?]

Headings

  • -  Theological anthropology--Islam
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript component part.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from cover.
  • -  Scribe not identified; probably Aḥmad ibn Tamām Kalbānī.
  • -  With: Sharḥ Muḥammad ibn Khalīl al-Baṣrawī ʻala al-Khazrajīyah.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writng not determined.
  • -  Paper; lightly polished, dark cream color paper with no visible watermarks; black ink with rubrication; catchwords..
  • -  Naskh; 19 lines in written area 11 x 7.5 cm.
  • -  Fol. 25b-29a.
  • -  ""H-1073 = 5.336."."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-336.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name in lower right corner of cover.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة. الحمد لله مونس القلوب الانسانية بذكره، ومعيد العوايد الاحسانية اثرا شكره الذي ما ينسى من ذكره من العباد ولا يعزب عن علمه اسرار سراير العباد ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: والحمد لله رب العالمين.

Medium

  • 5 leaves (19 lines), paper : bound ; 14 x 9.5 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PJ6171.K47953 B37 1500z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2017481408

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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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-Ḥanbalī, Muḥammad Ibn Ibrāhīm, 1502 Or, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Risālah fī Nūr al-insān fī ishtiqāq lafẓ al-insān. [16th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017481408/.

APA citation style:

Ibn Al-Ḥanbalī, M. I. I., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. Risālah fī Nūr al-insān fī ishtiqāq lafẓ al-insān. [16th Century?] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017481408/.

MLA citation style:

Ibn Al-Ḥanbalī, Muḥammad Ibn Ibrāhīm, 1502 Or, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Risālah fī Nūr al-insān fī ishtiqāq lafẓ al-insān. [16th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2017481408/>.