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Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Related record(s)

• Ḥukm masʼalat al-qadar / lil-shaykh al-imām al-ʻallāmah shaykh al-Islām Taqī al-Dīn Abī al-ʻAbbās ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm ibn ʻAbd al-Salām ibn Taymīyah.
• al-Kalām fī al-iʻtiqād al-khāliṣ min al-shakk wa-al-intiqād.
• [al-Alfāẓ al-kitābīyah].

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Summary note

Collection of texts on kalām and lexicology.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• 16 to 19 lines per page (17 lines fol. 40a-137b). Written in two different scripts: fol. 1a-39b in thick medium small naskh in black ink with re-inking in red ink for headings; fol. 40a-137b in thiner small naskh in black ink with larger script for headings. Even if the dates mentioned in the colophon are different, these two scripts might be from the same hand. Fol. 1a-39b: light cream glazed paper with vertical laid lines and chain lines (grouped by two?) visible. Some leaves are smaller (see fol. 14, 17). Fol. 40a-137b: thick light cream glazed paper. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• There are two dates of copy in the ms.: Muḥarram 788 (colophon text 1, fol. 34b) and Jumādá al-Ulá 623 (colophon text 4, fol. 137b).

Binding note

Paper pasted on brown leather over paper pasteboards. Leather spine (damaged). The upper cover is wanting.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a-34b: al-Kalām fī al-iʻtiqād al-khāliṣ min al-shakk wa-al-intiqād / ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-ʻAṭṭār.
• 2. fol. 35a-38a: Ḥukm masʼalat al-qadar / Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm ibn Taymīyah.
• 3. fol. 38a-39b: [Qaṣidah fī madḥ Ibn Taymīyah].
• 4. fol. 40a-138b: [al-Alfāẓ al-kitābīyah].

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Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Yahuda, 2289, 2505, 3776, 4232

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

OCLC

70055369

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