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Kitāb al-Kāfī fī al-ʻaqd al-ṣāfī ; al-Qusṭās al-mustaqīm ... [etc.].
Author
Ghazzālī, 1058-1111
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غزالي
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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/Created
Damascus, [1305]
Description
i, 113, i leaves : paper ; 165 x 123 (140 x 100) mm. bound to 165 x 140 mm.
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Special Collections - Manuscripts
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 4181Y
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Subject(s)
Islam
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Doctrines
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Early works to 1800
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Islam
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Customs and practices
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Early works to 1800
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Sufism
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Early works to 1800
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Manuscripts, Arabic
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New Jersey
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Princeton
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Copyist
Mawṣilī, Ḥusayn ibn al-Mubārak, -1341
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Related name
موصلي، حسين بن المبارك
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Contains
Ghazzālī, 1058-1111.
Durrah al-fākhirah fī kashf ʻulūm al-Ākhirah.
Fragments.
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غزالي.
درة الفاخرة في كشف علوم الاخرة
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Ghazzālī, 1058-1111.
Kāfī fī al-ʻaqd al-ṣāfī.
Fragments.
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غزالي.
كافي في العقد الصافي
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Ghazzālī, 1058-1111.
Qusṭās al-mustaqīm.
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غزالي.
قسطاس المستقيم
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Ghazzālī, 1058-1111.
ʻAqīdat ahl al-sunnah.
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غزالي.
عقيدة اهل السنة
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Ghazzālī, 1058-1111.
Iḥyāʾ ʻulūm al-dīn.
Book 2, Faṣl 1.
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غزالي.
احياء علوم الدين.
كتاب 2، فصل 1
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Ghazzālī, 1058-1111.
Iljām al-ʻawāmm ʻan ʻilm al-kalām.
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غزالي.
الجام العوام عن علم الكلام
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Ghazzālī, 1058-1111.
Munqidh min al-ḍalāl.
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غزالي.
منقذ من الضلال
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Ghazzālī, 1058-1111.
Jawāhir al-Qurʾān.
Fragments.
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غزالي.
جواهر القرآن
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Ghazzālī, 1058-1111.
Mishkāt al-anwār.
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غزالي.
مشكاة الانوار
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Summary note
Collection of several treatises, some fragmentary or defective, by al-Ghazzālī.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger, from the titles of the two first treatises in the volume.
Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink with use of red. Cream paper, glossy, hardly translucid, with chain lines and pulp visible. Fol. I is a later added leaf with inscriptions, including a table of contents. Leaves missing between fol. II and III. Fol. 74, 77, 79-81, and 112 are later added leaves (European paper), blank, except for a Fāʾidah on fol. 112a. A few leaves crudely repaired, with loss of text. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first three folios, numbered I-III). Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals from "34" to "62"on fol. 21a-49a in the faulty modern foliation; from "13" to "33", on fol. 52a-72a; from "1" to "4" (not in order) on fol. 73, 75-76, and 78; from "5" to "12" on fol. 82a-89a.
Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "SH 63".
Origin: According to colophon of last text, copied by Ḥusayn ibn Mubārak ibn al-thiqah al-Ṣīrafī al-Mawṣilī, Damascus, Khānqāh al-Qaṣāʻīn, on Friday 12 or 22 Jumādá al-Ākhir 704(?) (fol. 111a).
Binding note
Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope-flap. Blind-tooled. Paper pastedowns.
Contents
1. fol. Ia: [Table of contents].
2. fol. IIa-b: Kitāb al-Kāfī fī al-ʻaqd al-ṣāfī [only first page] / al-Ghazzālī.
Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 2219.
3. fol. IIIa-16b: al-Qusṭās al-mustaqīm [aceph. ; first title: al-Qawl fī mīzān al-talāzum] / al-Ghazzālī.
4. fol. 17a-20b: ʻAqīdat ahl al-sunnah [i.e. Kitāb Iḥyāʾ ʻulūm al-dīn. Kitāb qawāʻid al-ʻaqāʾid. Faṣl 1] / al-Ghazzālī.
Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 2218.
5. fol. 21a-49b: Kitāb Iljām al-ʻawāmm ʻan ʻilm al-kalām / al-Ghazzālī.
Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 2387.
6. fol. 51a-71b: Kitāb al-Munqidh min al-ḍalāl / al-Ghazzālī.
Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 3025.
7. fol. 73a-78b: al-Durrah al-fākhirah fī kashf ʻulūm al-ākhirah [fragments; fol. 74 and 77 blank] / al-Ghazzālī.
Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 2531.
8. fol. 82a-89b: Jawāhir al-Qurʾān [incomplete at beginning and end] / al-Ghazzālī.
Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 2160.
9. fol. 90a-111a: Kitāb Mishkāt al-anwār / al-Ghazzālī.
Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 2668.
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Provenance
On fol. Ia: Ownership statement in the name of Muḥammad Amīn al-Kazdī(?) ; reading statement ("naẓara fīhi") in the name of Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad. On fol. IIa: Two ownership statements, one in the name of Muṣṭafá al-Kazdī(?), the other in the name of Muḥammad Salīm al-Ḥamzawī, dated 1274 H. [1857 or 8]. Reading statement in the name of Yaḥyá ibn Ṣāliḥ on fol. 16b; repeated in a note dated 893 H. [1487 or 8], with the name reading: Yaḥyá ibn Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ, on fol. 20b; repeated on fol. 49b, 71b, and 111b. Reading statement in the name of sayyid Aḥmad Asmā Ibn ...? al-Shāfiʻī al-Ṣaydāwī on fol. 20b (wrongly spelled). Reading statement in the name of Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Sharwīn dated Ṣafar 914 [1508] on fol. 71b and Jumādá al-Ākhirah 914 on fol. 111b. Two reading statements on fol. 72a, in the name of Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf ibn al-Mallāḥ al-Shāfiʻī al-Ashʻarī and of ʻAlī ibn al-ḥājj Salāmah al-Shaʻāṭin(?), dated 1064 [1653 or 4] respectively. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 2160, 2218, 2219, 2387, 2531, 2668, 3025
OCLC
182548414
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