Details

Subject(s)

• Islam and philosophy—15th century [Browse]
• Islamic philosophy—15th century [Browse]
• Islam—Doctrines—15th century [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Treatise against the philosophers.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1a.
• 21 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Dark cream paper with chain lines visible. Note on the text and the way it is related to Ghazzālī's Tahāfut on fol. 1a. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• The colophon and notes on the last page seem to indicate that this copy was made in 915 H. by Maḥmūd ibn Muṣṭafá, and came to the possession of Aḥmad al-MRWN in 1135 H. (see fol. 98a). However, R. Mach dates the copy 1135 H. [1722 or 3].
• Collation: Paper, fol. 98 ; 1-9¹⁰ 10⁸ ; catchwrod on the verso of each leaf.
• Incipit (fol. 2b): توجهنا الى جنابك وقصدنا نحو بابك ... وبعد فان العقل والنقل متطابقان على ان اكرم ما يناله قوى البشر
• Explicit: جامعة بين السعادتبن ... ربنا لا تزع قلوبنا بعد ان هديتنا وهب لنا من لدنك رحمة انك انت الوهاب منك المبداء واليك الماب

Binding note

Brown leather over pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Both covers are similarly blind tooled with a central mandorla with a floral motif and an outer frame made of fillets and running patterns. rebacked. Paper pastedowns.

Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Yahuda, 3122

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

Other title(s)

كتاب تهافت الفلاسفة

Title on the margin of the colophon

• Kitāb Tahāfut al-falāsifah

OCLC

74710440

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