Details

Subject(s)

• Islam and philosophy—15th century [Browse]
• Islamic philosophy—15th century [Browse]
• Signification (Logic)—Islamic empire—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Arabic language—Semantics—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Contains

• Ījī, ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad, d. 1355? Risālat al-waḍʻ. [Browse]
• ايجي، عضد الدين عبد الرحمن بن احمد رسالة الوضع [Browse]

Summary note

Treatise against the philosophers. The text is followed by a commentary of a text on waḍʻ (fol. 117b-118b), the Risālat al-waḍʻ by ʻAḍud al-Dīn al-Ījī, d. 756/1355 (fol. 118b-119a) and by a short text on the same topic (fol. 119b).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• 22 lines per page (the last one of each recto only half a line to the left). Written in casual small angular naskh in black ink with use of red. Light cream paper with chain lines visible. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Ḥikmah 22". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 764".
• Incipit: توجهنا الى جنابك وقصدنا نحو بابك ... وبعد فان العقل والنقل متطابقان على ان اكرم ما يناله قوى البشر
• Explicit: جامعة بين السعادتبن ... ربنا لا تزغ قلوبنا بعد ان هديتنا وهب لنا من لدنك رحمة انك انت الوهاب منك المبداء و المعاد تم

Binding note

Modern binding with four sewing stations. Paper pastedowns and endleaves.

Provenance

Seal dated 994 H. [1585 or 6] on fol. 1b. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 3122
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 230 (3/1)
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 322 (3/1)

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

OCLC

122795330

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