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Subject(s)

• Fate and fatalism—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Free will and determinism—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Predestination (Islam)—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Contains

ʻĀmirī, Abū al-ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf. Taqrīr li-awjuh al-taqdīr. [Browse]

Notes

• Copied A.H. 592 [A.D. 1196] by Abū Naṣr ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-ḥasan ibn Abī Saʻd al-Ṭabīb.
• Fols. 76; 17.2 x 13 cm.; written surface 12.5 x 9.2 cm.; 19 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; with vowel signs; entries in red.
• A collection containing :
• 1. Kitāb Inqādh al-bashar min al-jabr wa-al-qadar, a philosophical treatise discussing fatalism and predestination and establishing manʼs free will.
• 2. Another treatise on free will entitled Kitāb al-Taqrīr li-awjuh al-taqdīr.
• A few marginal notes and glosses; MS in good condition but worm-eaten; Arabic binding.
• Acquired from Bārūdī, Beirūt, A.D. 1925.

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Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340424609

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