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Subject(s)

• Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Notes

• Fols. 271; 23.3 x 12.3 cm.; written surface 16 x 7.5 cm.; 19 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in Fārisi; with catchwords; entries in red.
• A treatise of scholastic theology being an exposition of the dogmas of Islam.
• Beg.: بسم الله ... قال ... الرازي ... سبحان المتفرد في
• Colophon: تمت [تم] الکتاب بعون الملك الوهاب من ىد الفقىرالحقىراشرف بن الجعفر الکشمىري في بلد کشمىر
• Stated in preface that work was composed for the authorʼs son, Muḥammad. Copy made in Kashmīr by Ashraf ibn al-Jaʻfar al-Kashmīrī. Last words are Turkish. MS in poor condition; Arabic leather binding. Rare. Probably from XVIth century.
• Acquired from Bārūdī, Beirūt, A.D. 1925.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 242; Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, II, p. 2.

OCLC

1340423106

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