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كتاب اللباب من الاحياء / تصنيف الشيخ الامام حجة الاسلام ... ابو حامد محمد بن محمد الغزالي
Kitāb al-Lubāb min al-Iḥyāʼ / taṣnīf al-Shaykh al-imām ḥujjat al-Islām ... Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī.
Author
Ghazzālī, 1058-1111
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غزالي
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Uniform title
Lubāb min al-Iḥyāʼ
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لباب من الاحياء
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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/Created
[1367?]
Description
i, 186, i leaves: paper ; 205 x 148 (125 x 98) mm. bound to 206 x 157 mm.
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Special Collections - Manuscripts
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 838Y
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Subject(s)
Islam
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Doctrines
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11th century
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Manuscripts, Arabic
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New Jersey
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Princeton
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Ghazzālī 1058-1111
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Iḥyāʼ ʻulūm al-dīn
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Summary note
Elegant copy of an abridgment in forty chapters (bāb) of the Iḥyāʼ ʻulūm al-dīn. See table of contents at the beginning of the text (fol. 1b-2b).
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
15 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of gold and blue for the headings. Red is also sporadically used. Illuminated title page (ʻunwān) in gold, red, blue and green on fol. 1a. Collation notes (collation statement fol. 186b). Ownership statements dated 1215, 1243 and 1315 H. on fol. (i)a (partly illegible). Foliation in red ink using Arabic numerals (starts with "2" on fol. 4). Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Collation: Paper, fol. i, 186, i ; i, 1⁶ (+1, fol. 7) 2-18¹⁰ 19⁶ (+3, fol. 178-180), i ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
According to the colophon, copied in the middle decade of Rajab 768 (fol. 186b).
Incipit: قال الشيخ الامام حجة الاسلام ابو حامد محمد بن محمد الغزالى رحمه الله الحمد لله على اسباغ نعمه وصلى الله ... اما بعد فقد عنّ لى فى بعض اسفارى ان استخرج من كتاب احياء علوم الدين بتعذر استصحابه مع كبر حجمه
Explicit: و ثقلت البطاقة فى كفة فلا تثقل مع الله شيء
Binding note
Red leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Paper pastedowns.
Provenance
Ownership statements dated Shaʻbān 1187 [1773] and 14 Rajab 1225 on fol. 1a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 2164
Other format(s)
Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
Also available in an electronic version.
OCLC
74710225
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