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Manuscript/Mixed Material Risālah fī al-farq bayna al-wāḥid wa-al-aḥad رسالة في الفرق بين الواحد والاحد

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Title

  • Risālah fī al-farq bayna al-wāḥid wa-al-aḥad

Other Title

  • رسالة في الفرق بين الواحد والاحد

Summary

  • Short treatise on the unity of God in Islamic doctrine.

Names

  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [late 18th century?]

Headings

  • -  God (Islam)--Attributes
  • -  God--Simplicity
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Cover title.
  • -  Scribe not identified.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; cream color laid paper with vertical chain lines and partial watermark of a crescent moon; black ink; additional notes at end; catchwords.
  • -  Naskh; 19 lines in written area 12 x 6 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-6b.
  • -  "14. III 909 = 3.166."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 3-166.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name in lower right corner of cover.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة وبه ثقتي. الحمد للاحد في ذاته والواحد في صفاته والصلاة والسلام على النور الواحد الذي تفرد وتوحد وبرز منه حضرة الواحدية ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: انه البر الجواد الكريم المنعم الرؤف الرحيم وافضل السلاة والسلام الباطنة والظاهرة على الفاتح الختام واله وصحبه الاعلام ما فاح نفع طيب الحبيب ما اعطر المثام من نشر عرف مسك الختام امين.

Medium

  • 6 leaves (19 lines), paper : bound ; 17 x 11 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP166.2 .R568 1700z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016496833

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

Additional Metadata Formats

IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, African and Middle East Division, Near East Section Arabic Language Rare Materials Collection

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Chicago citation style:

Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām, Former Owner, and Mansuri Collection. Risālah Fī Al-Farq Bayna Al-Wāḥid Wa-Al-Aḥad. [Late 18th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/2016496833/.

APA citation style:

Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. Risālah Fī Al-Farq Bayna Al-Wāḥid Wa-Al-Aḥad. [Late 18th Century?] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2016496833/.

MLA citation style:

Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām, Former Owner, and Mansuri Collection. Risālah Fī Al-Farq Bayna Al-Wāḥid Wa-Al-Aḥad. [Late 18th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2016496833/>.