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Manuscript/Mixed Material Sharḥ al-ʻAqīdah al-Sanūsīyah taghammada Allāh muṣannifahā bi-ghufrānihi شرح العقيدة السنوسية تغمد الله مصنفها بغفرانه /

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Title

  • Sharḥ al-ʻAqīdah al-Sanūsīyah taghammada Allāh muṣannifahā bi-ghufrānihi

Other Title

  • شرح العقيدة السنوسية تغمد الله مصنفها بغفرانه /

Summary

  • al-Sanūsī's commentary on his own work Umm al-barāhīn fī ʻilm al-kalām on the doctrines of Islam..

Names

  • Sanūsī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, approximately 1427-approximately 1490
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • end of Rabīʻ al-akhir 1027 [April 1618]

Headings

  • -  Sanūsī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf,--approximately 1427-approximately 1490.--Umm al-barāhīn fī ʻilm al-kalām
  • -  Islam--Doctrines--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a.
  • -  Written by Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī Bakr al-Quṣayrī al-Shāfiʻī al-Qādirī.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; unpolished, slightly yellowed cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; black ink with rubrication; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, SII, p. 353
  • -  Naskh; 21 lines in written area 14.5 x 9 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-160a.
  • -  "H-0304 = 3.2."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 3-002.
  • -  Binding; brown half leather, including flap, with dark morocco leather sides; embossed gold center medallions front and back.
  • -  ‏Incipit: البسملة ولا اله الا الله ومحمد رسول الله. الحمد لله الواسع الجود والعطا الذي شهد بوجوب وجوده وحددايته وعظيم جلاله وجوب افتقار الكاينات كلها اليه في الارض والسمآ ...
  • -  ‏Explicit/Colophon: وقع الفراغ من نسخا(؟) على يد افقر عباد الله محمد بن علي بن احمد بن ابي بكر القصيري بلدا الشافعي مذهبا القادري طريقة بغرة يوم احد اواخر شهر ربيع الاخر احد شهور سنة الف وسبع وعشرين هجرية والحمد لله وحده.

Medium

  • 160 leaves (21 lines), paper : bound ; 21 x 15.5 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP165.5.S33 S26 1618

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2017498199

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Sanūsī, Muḥammad Ibn Yūsuf, Approximately Approximately 1490, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Sharḥ al-ʻAqīdah al-Sanūsīyah taghammada Allāh muṣannifahā bi-ghufrānihi. [end of Rabīʻ al-akhir 18, 1618] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017498199/.

APA citation style:

Sanūsī, M. I. Y., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1618) Sharḥ al-ʻAqīdah al-Sanūsīyah taghammada Allāh muṣannifahā bi-ghufrānihi. [end of Rabīʻ al-akhir 18] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017498199/.

MLA citation style:

Sanūsī, Muḥammad Ibn Yūsuf, Approximately Approximately 1490, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Sharḥ al-ʻAqīdah al-Sanūsīyah taghammada Allāh muṣannifahā bi-ghufrānihi. [end of Rabīʻ al-akhir 18, 1618] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2017498199/>.