نظم السنوسية ... [الخ.]

Naẓm al-Sanūsīyah ... [etc.]

Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[1400-1699]
Description
72 leaves : paper ; 172 x 127 (123-143 x 80-92) mm.

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    • Ms. composite codex.
    • Layout: 13-20 lines per page.
    • Origin: [al-Risālah al-Quṭbīyah] Copied Dhū al-Qaʻdah 886 -- [ʻAqīdat ulamāʼ mā warāʼ al-nahr] Copied Dhū al-Ḥijjah 886 -- [al-Tajrīd fī kalimat al-tawḥīd] Copied Shawwāl 869.
    • Incipit: [نظم السنوسية] قال محمد هو الجمازى * الحمد لله على المغازى -- [شرح وصية] الحمد لله المتوحد بوجوب الوجود ... قال ... الايمان اقرار باللسان ... اقول الکلام ههنا فى ماهية الايمان -- [الرسالة القطبية] الحمد لله ... وبعد فان اول ما يجب على کل مکلف هو معرفة الله تعالى ... وهذه الرسالة مشتملة على قدر ما لا بد منها ... ورسمت لخدمة الامير الکبير -- [عقيدة علماء] هو الله الواحد القديم الحى القادر العليم السميع -- [المقامات الاربعون] الحمد لله ... قال ... ابو نصر ... سألتنى يا اخى ... عن التصوف وحقيقه
    Contents
    • 1. fol. 1b-10b: Naẓm al-Sanūsīyah. Versification of Umm al-barāhīn.
    • 2. fol. 12b-35a: Sharḥ Waṣīyat Abī Ḥanīfah.
    • 3. fol. 37b-43b: Risālah al-Quṭbīyah. Anonymous creed, dedicated to al-Amīr al-Kabīr Quṭb al-Dīn Arghūntakīn ibn al-Amīr al-Aʻẓam Bahāʼ al-Dīn.
    • 4. fol. 43b-48a: ʻAqīdat ulamāʼ mā warāʼ al-nahr. A Maturidite creed. The recipient of the letter is perhaps identical with ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Balkhī al-Sikilkandī, who lived in Damascus and died in Aleppo in 547/1152-3.
    • 5. fol. 59a-69a: Tajrīd fī kalimat al-tawḥīd. Incomplete at beginning.
    • 6. fol. 69b-72a: Maqāmāt al-arbaʻūn. Perhaps identical with Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻarabīyah (1887-1892/3), VII, 263 (Risālah fī ādāb al-taṣawwuf, no incipit given).
    Provenance
    Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    • Mach, R. Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts (Yahuda Section), 2204, 2325, 2359, 2360, 2365, 2885.
    • Brockelmann, GAL, I, 546 (no. 1); II, 325 (II, Versif. 2); S I, 287 (VI); S I, 756;
    Other title(s)
    • Risālah al-Quṭbīyah.
    • رسالة القطبية.
    • ʻAqīdat ʻulamāʼ mā warāʼ al-nahr.
    • عقيدة علماء ما وراء النهر.
    OCLC
    1378267393
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