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Subject(s)

• Alexander the Great 356 B.C.-323 B.C.—In the Qurʼan [Browse]
• Sufism—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic philosophy [Browse]

Contains

• Nasafī, ʻAzīz al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad, 13th cent. Zubdat al-ḥaqāyiq. [Browse]
• نسفي، عزيز الدين بن محمد. زبدة الحقايق. [Browse]
• Diyārbakrī, Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad, -1558 or 1559. Tārīkh al-khamīs. Selections. [Browse]
• دياربكري، حسين بن محمد. تاريخ الخميس. [Browse]

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Physical description: Written in tiny ruqʻah script in black on different types and sizes of European laid and modern papers. Rubrication and catchwords; some marginalia. Fol. 13 bound upside-down. Fol. 10b-11b, 14a, 15a-18b, 30a, 35a, 44b-45a, 46a, 49a, 50a, 60a, 61a, 67b, 69b-70b, 71b-72b blank.

Binding note

Paper binding.

Language note

Arabic and Persian.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1b-10a: Zubdat al-ḥaqāyiq / ʻAzīz ibn Muḥammad al-Nasafī. An abridgment of the author's Risālah-i mabdaʼ va maʻād. In Persian.
• 2. fol. 12a-14b: [Notes and quotations]. In Arabic.
• 3. fol. 19a-40a: [Notes on philosophical subjects]. In Arabic.
• 4. fol. 40b-42b: Hayākil al-nūr. Copy completed by Shams al-Dīn al-Nūrī on 5 Ṣafar 1263 AH (23 January 1847) (fol. 42b). In Arabic.
• 5. fol. 43a-60b: [Notes in Arabic and Turkish].
• 6. fol. 61b-69a: Dhikr Dhū al-Qarnayn al-Akbar. Notes and quotations on Alexander the Great, mostly from Tārīkh al-khamīs by Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Diyārbakrī. In Arabic.
• 7. fol. 71a: [Extracts]. In Arabic.

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Provenance

Owner's stamp of Taḥsīn Ḥasan (fol. 1a).

Source acquisition

Purchase; Bouwman Oriental Books, 2010/3/29 (2010-106).

Other title(s)

• Hayākil al-nūr.
• هياكل النور.
• Dhikr Dhū al-Qarnayn al-Akbar.
• ذكر ذو القرنين الاكبر.

OCLC

593992745

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