Item Summary

The author's clear copy of a collection of opininons of Muslim scholars concerning al-Ghazālī's statement that this is the best of all possible worlds (see table of contents on fol. 1b-(1bis)a). Mention of a Turkish version in the colophon (fol. 39b).

Descriptive Information

Title
حكمة العارف بوجه ينفع لمسألة ليس في الامكان ابدع / جمعها كاتب الحروف المحتاج الى عون الله حيثما توجه حمدان بن المرحوم عثمان خواجه الجزائري داراً الاسلامبولي مهاجراً
Transliterated Title
Ḥikmat al-ʻārif bi-wajhi yanfaʻu li-masʼalat Laysa fī al-imkān abdaʻ / jamaʻahā kātib al-ḥurūf al-muḥtāj ilá ʻawn Allāh ḥaythamā tawajjaha Ḥamdān ibn al-marḥūm ʻUthmān Khwājah al-Jazāʼirī dāran al-Islāmbūlī muhājaran.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3036Y
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcrv0437568
Publisher
[18--?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1800-1899
Extent
i, 41, i leaves: paper ; 233 x 148 (162 x 75) mm. bound to 233 x 153 mm.
Provenance
From the books of Aḥmad Nūr al-Dīn Sū-ādīʹzādah (ownership statement on fol. 3a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 3031
Īḍāḥ al-maknūn fī al-dhayl ʻalá Kashf al-ẓunūn, vol. I, col. 414
Ormsby, E. Theodicy in Islamic thought, 1984, p. 126-129
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 3a).
17 lines per page. Written in small round naskh in black ink. The text is framed within a single red line throughout. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Table of contents mentioning the page numbers on fol. 1b-(1bis)a. Fol. (1bis)b-2b: Blank with frame. Pagination using arabic numerals on the middle of the upper margin. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits first fol.). Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "ṢWF tā". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 145/2".
Incipit: الهمّ لك الحمد الذى حمدت به نفسك فى الازل
Binding Note
Brown and orange marbled paper pasted over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Spine, fore-edfe flap and borders in red leather. Green paper pastedowns and fly-leaf.

Discovery Information

Subject
Theodicy—Early works to 1800
Creation (Islam)—Early works to 1800
God (Islam)—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Ghazzālī 1058-1111—Laysa fī al-imkān abdaʻ mimmā kān—Criticism and interpretation
Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
93

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/b7896c85-2951-4637-9fbd-4fdd728c37f2/manifest