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Manuscript/Mixed Material Iʻānat al-mujiddīn fī taṣḥīḥ al-dīn li-sharḥ Umm al-barāhīn اعانة المجدين في تصحيح الدين لشرح ام البراهين /

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Title

  • Iʻānat al-mujiddīn fī taṣḥīḥ al-dīn li-sharḥ Umm al-barāhīn

Other Title

  • اعانة المجدين في تصحيح الدين لشرح ام البراهين /

Summary

  • Commentary by an author only identified as al-Qayrawānī on al-Sanūsī's Umm al-barāhīn fī ʻilm al-kalām.

Names

  • Qayrawānī
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 1157 [1744 or 1745]

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 Shākir ibn Muṣṭafá al-ʻUmarī.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; lightly polished cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; black ink with rubrication; catchwords.
  • -  Small naskh; 31 lines in written area 14 x 6 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-22a.
  • -  "H-0318 = 3.27."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 3-027.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name in lower right corner of cover.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة وبه الاعانة. الحمد لله الموصوف بالجلال والمنعوت بالاكرام والصلاة والسلام على سيدنا محمد سيد الرسل الكرام وعلى اله وصحبه ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: تمت هذه النسخة على يد العبد الفقير المعترف بالذنب والتقصير محمد شاكر ابي الشيخ مصطفى العمري يوم الاثنين من ... الفرد سنة سبع وخمسين وماية والف والحمد لله على التمام.

Medium

  • 22 leaves (31 lines), paper : bound ; 20.5 x 14 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP165.5.S33 Q29 1744

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2017498200

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:

Qayrawānī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Iʻānat al-mujiddīn fī taṣḥīḥ al-dīn li-sharḥ Umm al-barāhīn. [1744 or 1745, 1157] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017498200/.

APA citation style:

Qayrawānī, Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1157) Iʻānat al-mujiddīn fī taṣḥīḥ al-dīn li-sharḥ Umm al-barāhīn. [1744 or 1745] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017498200/.

MLA citation style:

Qayrawānī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Iʻānat al-mujiddīn fī taṣḥīḥ al-dīn li-sharḥ Umm al-barāhīn. [1744 or 1745, 1157] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2017498200/>.