كتاب رد معاني الايات المتشابهات الى معاني الايات المحكمات / تأليف محيي الدين محمد ابو عبد الله الاشبيلي الشافعي المعروف بابن اللبان.

Kitāb Radd maʻānī al-āyāt al-mutashābihāt ilá maʻānī al-āyāt al-muḥkamāt / taʼlīf Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad Abū ʻAbd Allāh al-Ishbīlī al-Shāfiʻī al-maʻrūf bi-Ibn al-Labbān.

Author
Uniform title
Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[18th century?]
Description
32 leaves : paper ; 208 x 155 (150 x 90) mm. bound to 216 x 163 mm.

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Donor
Related name
Rare books genre
Summary note
A work dealing with those ambiguous verses of the Koran which deal with the nature of God and may have a doubtful conception thereof.
Notes
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title from title page (fol. 1a).
  • A few marginal notes and glosses; marginal summaries. On the title page is a table of contents and a quote from Ibn al-Rūmī. Identification of author with Ibn al-Labbān a later addition to the title page; Ziriklī links the work with Ibn al-Labbān, Brockelmann doesn't.
  • Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 32 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
  • Layout: 23 lines per page.
  • Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (crown-star-crescent) ; MS in good condition, light staining.
  • Origin: Probably from the XVIIIth century.
  • Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين قال الشيخ الامام العالم العارف المحقق الكامل محيى الدين محمد ... اما بعد حمد الله الواحد بذاته وصفاته ...
  • Colophon.: هذا آخر ما يسره الله تعالى من کتاب رد معاني الايات المتشابهات الى معاني الايات المحکمات تأليف العارف بالله تعالى محيي الدين محمد ابو عبدالله الاشبيلي الشافعي نفعنا الله به امين
Binding note
Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in fabric and dark brown spotted paper. Brown pastedowns and end papers.
Provenance
Ownership signature: Ḥasan [..]; Abū al-Nājib Ḥasan ibn Abū al-Jūd Ibrāhīm ibn Abū Ḥāzim ... al-Shāfiʻī al-Shādhilī with seal impression (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
  • Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1292.
  • Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, p. 353.
  • Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 716.
Other format(s)
Also available in an electronic version.
OCLC
1340423079
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