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Subject(s)

• Time—Philosophy—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Eternal return—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Sufism—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Cosmology—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Contains

• Jāmī, 1414-1492. Risālah fī waḥdat al-wujūd. [Browse]
• Ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240. Risālah fī bayān miqdār al-sanah al-sarmadīyah. [Browse]

Contained in

Sharḥ al-Fuṣūṣ ... [etc.].

Summary note

Short treatise on the perpetual year, eternity and waḥdat al-wujūd. The same text, with title Risālah fī waḥdat al-wujūd is attributed to Jāmī in ms. Berlin 2439, and in a commentary by ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī (d. 1143/1731, al-Ẓill al-mamdūd fī maʻna waḥdat al-wujūd, see Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 2786). The text is also attributed in some ms. to Ibn al-ʻArabī, see Yahya, O. Histoire et classification (1964), no. 46 (R. Mach).

Notes

• Ms. component part.
• Title from caption (fol. 125a).
• Copied on 18 Rajab 810 (colophon, fol. 126a) [10 and not 15, see quire 10 on fol. 91].
• Incipit: الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة على سيد المرسلين ... وبعد فان حقيقة الذات الالهية من حيث هى هى امتدادها اعنى
• Explicit: كان وقته واحداً وكان عن كل رتبة(؟) صاعدا والله الباقى بعد فنا الخلق وذلك اليوم الحق والحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة و على خير خلقه محمد واله الطاهرين

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 2785
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 205/5

Title in GAL

• al-Risālah al-sarmadīyah

In

Qayṣarī, Dāwūd ibn Maḥmūd, d. 1350 or 51 Sharḥ al-Fuṣūṣ ... [etc.], fol. 125a-126a

OCLC

70657617

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