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Subject(s)

• Dawwānī, Muḥammad ibn Asʻad 1426 or 1427-1512 or 1513—Bibliography—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islam—Doctrines—History—15th century—Sources [Browse]
• Islamic philosophy—History—15th century—Sources [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Questions concerning several matters. This treatise comprises also a list of the shaykh of al-Dawwānī and a list of his works. The text is followed on fol. 27b by the beginning of a text on metaphysics.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• 19 lines per page. Written in thick medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Light cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "... 128". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "887 Ḥāʼ".
• Incipit: الحمد لله الذى جعل السلطان غياثا للمستغيثين ... وبعد فيقول ... انى كنت برهة من الزمان ومدة من الاوان
• Explicit: لا يخفى على الفطرة هذا آخر ما قصدنا من ايراده فى هذه الرسالة جعلته انموذجا لتلك العلوم ... وآله وصحبه اجمعين تم

Binding note

Paper over paper pasteboards for lower and upper covers. Red paper pastedown and fly-leaf.

Contents

• Masʼalah 1 fī al-ḥadīth wa-uṣūl al-fiqh (fol. 4a)
• Masʼalah 2 min al-fiqh (fol. 5a)
• Masʼalah 3 fī baʻḍ al-khilāfīyāt(?) (fol. 5a)
• Masʼalah 4 min al-ṭibb (fol. 5b)
• Masʼalah 5 min uṣūl al-dīn fī ḥudūth al-ʻālam (fol. 6b)
• Masʼalah 6 min al-tafsīr (fol. 29a)
• Masʼalah 7 min al-handasah (fol. 24b)
• Masʼalah 8 min al-hayʼah(?) (fol. 25a)
• Masʼalah 9 min al-manṭiq (fol. 25a)
• Masʼalah 10 min al-arithmāṭīqī (fol. 25a).

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Provenance

Seal of al-Sayyid Muslim Ghazālī, dated 1239 H. [1823] on fol. 1a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 5239
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 217 (4/4)
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 306 (4/4)

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

Other title(s)

• رسالة في مسائل من الفنون
• العشرة الجلالية
• رسالة في المسائل من الفنون
• المسائل العشر في الكلام

Title in a note quoting Kashf al-ẓunūn (fol. 1a)

• Risālah fī masāʼil min al-funūn

Title in a note (fol. 1a)

• al-ʻAshrah al-Jalālīyah

Title in Mach, R. Yahuda

• Risālah fī al-masāʼil min al-funūn

Other title in GAL

• al-Masāʼil al-ʻashr fī al-kalām

OCLC

72032889

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