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Manuscript/Mixed Material Baḥr al-kalām بحر الكلام / / ʻAqīdat Abī al-Muʻīn al-Nasafī al-maʻrūf bi-Baḥr al-kalām

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Title

  • Baḥr al-kalām

Other Title

  • بحر الكلام /
  • ʻAqīdat Abī al-Muʻīn al-Nasafī al-maʻrūf bi-Baḥr al-kalām

Summary

  • Treatise on God and Islamic doctrines.

Names

  • Nasafī, Maymūn ibn Muḥammad, -1115
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [early 17th century?]

Headings

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

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a.
  • -  Written by Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd al-Wāḥid Ṭuʻaymah.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; lightly polished yellowed cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; black ink with rubrication; fol. 2a is brittle and has a secton of text missing between lines 7 and 14; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, GI, p. 426; SI, p. 757
  • -  Naskh; 27 lines in written area 15.5 x 10.5 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-24b.
  • -  "H-0400 = 3.249."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 3-249.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name in lower right corner of cover.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة وبه ثقتي. الحمد للع ذي الجلال والاكرام. والصلاة والسلام على رسوله محمد خير الانام وعلى اله واصحابه الكرام. قال الشيخ الامام الاجل ريييس الايمة لسان الحق ولى النظم والنثر ابو المعين النسفي ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: ... الفقثر الى الله تعالى محمد بن عبد الرحمن بن عبد الواحد طعيمة عفر الله له ولوالديه ولمن دعى له بالمغفرة ولجميع المسلمين اجمعين يا رب العالمين والحمد لله رب العالمين امين امين.

Medium

  • 24 leaves (27 lines), paper : bound ; 21.3 x 15 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP166.2 .N284 1600z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2017498184

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:

Nasafī, Maymūn Ibn Muḥammad, -1115, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Baḥr Al-Kalām. [Early 17th Century?, 1600] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017498184/.

APA citation style:

Nasafī, M. I. M., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1600) Baḥr Al-Kalām. [Early 17th Century?] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017498184/.

MLA citation style:

Nasafī, Maymūn Ibn Muḥammad, -1115, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Baḥr Al-Kalām. [Early 17th Century?, 1600] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2017498184/>.