الاربعون في اصول الدين / فخر الدين الرازي. الاربعين في امامة الطاهرين / محمد طاهر بن محمد طاهر بن محمد حسين الشيرازي ثم النجفي.

al-Arbaʻūn fī uṣūl al-dīn / al-Arbaʻīn fī imāmat al-Ṭāhirīn / Muḥammad Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad Ḥusayn al-Shīrāzī thumma al-Najafī. Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī.

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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[1703 or 1704]
Description
188 leaves: paper ; 293 x 204 (205 x 132) mm. bound to 293 x 210 mm.

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    Summary note
    Collection of two treatises on uṣūl al-dīn, and Shīʻī doctrine of imāmate, the later apparently incomplete at end.
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title provided by cataloger.
    • 27 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink. Fol. 183a-184a written in thick small naskh. Fol. 8-184 : European glazed paper. Fol. 1-7 and 185-188: fly-leaves on woven paper, with short excerpts written diagonally. Text 1 has been collated (see collation statement dated 17 Jumādá al-Thānī 1[1]16 [1704] on the margins of fol. 136a). Short excerpts and annotations on the margins. Long biographic note on Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī after the colophon of text 1 (fol. 136a, 11 lines). Between fol. 135 and 136: Text in Persian on a small piece of paper. Some leaves loose.
    • Copy of text 1 completed in 1115 by ʻAlī(?) ibn ʻAlī Akramghār(?) (colophon, fol. 136a).
    Binding note
    Upper and lower covers made of brown leather over paper pasteboards (visible). Both covers are similarly blind-tooled with a central mandorla with a floral motif with two pendants on the vertical axis and an outer frame consisting of a running pattern and fillets. Rebacked.
    Contents
    • 1. fol. 1a-6a: [Short excerpts from Ḥāshiyat Sharḥ al-Maṭāliʻ; Sharḥ al-Mawāqif [by Jurjānī]; a commentary on Āyat al-Nūr; a text on Wājib al-wujūd; Jamʻ al-Jawāmiʻ; Ibn Ḥajar; Bayḍāwī].
    • 2. fol. 6b-7b: [Table of contents of Kitāb Arbaʻīn by Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī, followed by a short biographic note on the author].
    • 3. fol. 8a: [Short excerpt on al-imkān al-khāṣṣ and al-imkān al-ʻāmm; inscriptions in Persian].
    • 4. fol. 8b-136a: al-Arbaʻūn fī uṣūl al-dīn / Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī.
    • 5. fol. 136b-182a: al-Arbaʻīn fī imāmat al-Ṭāhirīn / Muḥammad Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad Ḥusayn al-Shīrāzī thumma al-Najafī.
    • 6. fol. 182b: [Blank].
    • 7. fol. 183a-184a: [Short text on God's attributes apparently by Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr ibn Abī Bakr ibn Muḥammad, see end of text, fol. 184a).
    • 8. fol. 185a-188b: [Excerpts from Itqān al-ʻulūm by Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī; Ibrāhīm al-Ghazzī reporting from Ṣawāʼiq al-muḥriqah by Ibn Ḥajar [al-Haythamī]; Bayḍawī; Sharḥ al-Shmasīyah; Sharḥ al-Mawāqif [by Jurjānī].
    Provenance
    Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    Mach, R. Yahuda, 2608, 3039
    Other format(s)
    • Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
    • Also available in an electronic version.
    Other title(s)
    • Arbaʻīn fī imāmat al-Ṭāhirīn.
    • اربعين في امامة الطاهرين
    OCLC
    76893213
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