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Manuscript/Mixed Material Kitāb al-Kashf ʻan mujāwazat hādhihi al-ummah al-alf كتاب الكشف عا مجاوزة هاذه الأمة الالف /

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Title

  • Kitāb al-Kashf ʻan mujāwazat hādhihi al-ummah al-alf

Other Title

  • كتاب الكشف عا مجاوزة هاذه الأمة الالف /

Summary

  • Treatise on Islamic eschatology refuting the belief that the last judgment will be one thousand years after the death of the Prophet Muḥammad.

Names

  • Suyūṭī, 1445-1505
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 16 Jumādá al-awwal 1019 [9 August 1610]

Headings

  • -  Islamic eschatology--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; yellowed, heavy medium cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and watermark of an anchor within a circle; black ink with rubrication and overlining; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, GII, p. 151; SII, p. 187
  • -  Naskh; 25 lines in written area 15.5 x 10.5 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-6a.
  • -  "H-0244 = 1.305."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 1-305.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name in the lower right corner of cover.
  • -  ‏Incipit: البسملة وبه نستعين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله. قال الشيخ الامام العالم العلامة البحر الفهامة ابو الفضل جلال الدين السيوطي ...
  • -  ‏Explicit/Colophon: وكان الفراغ من كتابته يوم الجمعة سادس عشر شهر جمادى الاول سنة تسعة عشر بعد الالف من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة والسلام والحمد لله وحده.

Medium

  • 6 leaves (25 lines), paper : bound ; 20.5 x 15 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP166.8 .S965 1610

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2017498269

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

Additional Metadata Formats

IIIF Presentation Manifest

Rights & Access

The contents of the Library of Congress Arabic Language Rare Materials Collection are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions and are free to use and reuse.

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:

Suyūṭī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb al-Kashf ʻan mujāwazat hādhihi al-ummah al-alf. [16 Jumādá al-awwal 9 August 1610, 1610] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017498269/.

APA citation style:

Suyūṭī, Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1610) Kitāb al-Kashf ʻan mujāwazat hādhihi al-ummah al-alf. [16 Jumādá al-awwal 9 August 1610] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017498269/.

MLA citation style:

Suyūṭī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb al-Kashf ʻan mujāwazat hādhihi al-ummah al-alf. [16 Jumādá al-awwal 9 August 1610, 1610] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2017498269/>.