تشييد الاركان من ليس في الامكان ابدع مما كان / تأليف الامام العالم العامل العلامة جلال الدين السيوطي

Tashyīd al-arkān min laysa fī al-imkān abdaʻ mimmā kān / taʼlīf al-Imām al-ʻālim al-ʻāmil al-ʻallāmah Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī.

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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[ between 1641? and 18--?]
Description
10 leaves: paper ; 216 x 158 (150 x 92) mm. bound to 217 x 160 mm.

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    Summary note
    Short treatise on theodicy, discussing Ghazzālī's best of all possible worlds, expressed in his statement "Laysa fī al-imkān abdaʻ mimmā kān". The text is followed on fol. 10b by an excerpt from the Fatwas of Abū al-Faḍl ibn Ḥajar [al-ʻAsqalānī, d. 1449].
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title from title page (fol. 1a). The same title appears in the preamble (fol. 1b, l. 16).
    • 25 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. European glazed paper with watermark. Worm-eaten (particularly in the inner margin, with loss of text).
    • Date "1050" written in another ink at the end of the text (fol. 10a).
    • Collation: Paper, fol. 10 ; 1¹⁰ ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
    • Incipit: الحمد لله الدلا اوجد الموجودات على ابدع مثال واحسن منوال ... وبعد فقد نقل عن الامام حجة الاسلام ولي الله تعالي ابو حامد الغزالي
    • Explicit: السمن كلما ازداد فيه نظرا ازداد تحيرا والله تعالى اعلم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم والحمد لله رب العالمين وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل
    Binding note
    Dark blue paper on paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Cloth spine.
    Provenance
    Two ownership statements on fol. 1a, signed ʻAbd al-Ṣamad al-Ḥusaynī, dated 1257? [1841 or 42], and Maḥmūd al-Sūqī? al-Marʻalī?, dated 1330? [1911 or 12]. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    Mach, R. Yahuda, 3030
    Other format(s)
    • Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
    • Also available in an electronic version.
    OCLC
    76806139
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