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Manuscript/Mixed Material Taʻrīfāt lil-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī تعريفات للسيد الشريف الجرجاني

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Title

  • Taʻrīfāt lil-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī

Other Title

  • تعريفات للسيد الشريف الجرجاني

Summary

  • al-Jurjānī's dictionary of sufi and philosophical terms.

Names

  • Jurjānī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, al-Sayyid al-Sharīf, 1340-1413
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 13 Muḥarram 1185? [28 April 1771?]

Headings

  • -  Sufism--Dictionaries--Early works to 1800
  • -  Islamic philosophy--Dictionaries--Early works to 1800
  • -  Islam--Terminology--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from spine.
  • -  Scribe not identified.
  • -  Year written in numerals in margin by a different hand next to colophon.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; black ink with rubrication; some notes and two small diagrams in the margin; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, GII, p. 280; SII p. 305
  • -  Naskh; 29 lines in written area 15 x 8 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-67a.
  • -  "H-0452 = 3.482."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 3-482.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name at base of spine.
  • -  ‏Incipit: البسملة. الحمد لله حق حمده والصلوة على خير خلقه محمد واله. وبعد ...
  • -  ‏Explicit/Colophon: تمت هذا الكتاب الشريف والمصنف المنيف غفر الله تعالى لكاتبه وقارة وسايعية ثالث عشرى محرم الحرام افتتاح سنة ايقغ.

Medium

  • 67 leaves (29 lines), paper : bound ; 20.2 x 14.3 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP188.48 .J87 1771

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2017481031

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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IIIF Presentation Manifest

Rights & Access

The contents of the Library of Congress Arabic Language Rare Materials Collection are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions and are free to use and reuse.

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:

Jurjānī, ʻAlī Ibn Muḥammad, Al-Sayyid Al-Sharīf, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Taʻrīfāt lil-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī. [13 Muḥarram ? 28 April 1771?, 1771] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017481031/.

APA citation style:

Jurjānī, ʻ. I. M., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1771) Taʻrīfāt lil-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī. [13 Muḥarram ? 28 April 1771?] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2017481031/.

MLA citation style:

Jurjānī, ʻAlī Ibn Muḥammad, Al-Sayyid Al-Sharīf, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Taʻrīfāt lil-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī. [13 Muḥarram ? 28 April 1771?, 1771] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2017481031/>.