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Subject(s)

• God (Islam)—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic philosophy—15th century [Browse]
• Islam—Doctrines—15th century [Browse]
• Metaphysics—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Hadith—Commentaries—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Contained in

Risālah qadīmah li-ithbāt al-wājib ... [etc.].

Summary note

On the demonstration of the existence of the Necessary existent. The text is followed on fol. 56b by a short text on the ḥadīth qudsī "Kuntu kanzan makhfīyan fa-aḥabbtu ..." by Yūsuf al-Aṣamm (see GAL, SN II, 1025).

Notes

• Ms. component part.
• Title from title page (fol. 33a). The same title appears in the table of contents (fol. 1a).
• There is no date mentioned in the colophon of this text, but another text in the same ms. is dated Mārdīn, Jumādá al-Ulá 1042 (see fol. 87b).
• Incipit: سبحانك سبحانك ما اعظم شانك ... وبعد فيقول الفقير الى عفو ربه الحقيقي محمد بن اسعد الدوانى الصديقى قد حررت فى هذه الرسالة وجوه براهن اثبات الواجب جلّ ذكره على ما اورده ائمة الحكمة والكلام
• Explicit: هو الله ربى يحق الحق بفضله ويبطل الباطل بعدله(؟) بيده الحسنى واليه الرجعى تمت الكتاب

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 2398
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 217/11
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 307/11

Other title(s)

• رسالة اثبات الواجب القديمة
• Ithbāt al-wājib

Title in Mach, R. Yahuda

• Risālat Ithbāt al-wājib (al-qadīmah)

In

Dawwānī, Muḥammad ibn Asʻad, 1426 or 7-1512 or 13 Risālah qadīmah li-ithbāt al-wājib ... [etc.], fol. 33a-56a

OCLC

70661007

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