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هذه رسالة في اثبات الواجب / للمولى ابي الحسن.

Hādhihi Risālah fī ithbāt al-wājib / lil-Mawlá Abī al-Ḥasan.

1700-1799

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An autograph copy of a philosophical treatise on the existence of God.

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Manuscripts of the Islamic World offers a curated selection of extraordinary manuscripts hosted or held by Princeton University Library. The manuscripts are predominantly in Arabic, but there are also many in Persian and Ottoman Turkish. The manuscript digitizations here are a fraction of the full Manuscripts of the Islamic World collections, housed in Special Collections in Princeton's Firestone Library. Efforts are ongoing to make the manuscripts of these collections more accessible through conservation, catalog record updates, and digitization.

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Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 128L

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[18th century?]

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Author: Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad; ابو الحسن بن احمد
Donor: Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961
Related Name: Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 128L

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Arabic

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God (Islam)—Proof—Early works to 1800

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

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An autograph copy of a philosophical treatise on the existence of God.

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Title: هذه رسالة في اثبات الواجب / للمولى ابي الحسن.
Transliterated Title: Hādhihi Risālah fī ithbāt al-wājib / lil-Mawlá Abī al-Ḥasan.
Call Number: Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 128L
Identifier: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc79408924h
Publisher: [18th century?]
Language: Arabic
Date Created: 1700-1799
Format: Manuscript
Extent: 34 leaves : paper ; 175 x 100 (100 x 55) mm.
Provenance: Ownership signatures: Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Sayṭūf with his seal impression dated 1177; Muḥammad al-Ṣadīqī[?] al-Mālikī (fol. 1a). Seal impression (fol. 34b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition: Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References: Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 804.
Rights Statement: Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes: Ms. codex.; Title from title page (fol. 1a).; Marginal comments. Lines of verse on title page (fol. 1a).; Collation: Paper ; fol. 34 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.; Layout: 13 lines per page.; Description: Rubricated ; first 16 lines of text vocalized ; MS in good condition but worm-eaten.; Origin: Probably from the early XVIIIth century.; Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ربنا ... الى فنائك فتأتك بقلب يفلت ...; Colophon: تمت الرسالة على يد مؤلفها خادم ارباب النهى ابوالحسن بن احمد اوتي کتابه بيمينه ولا يؤتى بشماله
Binding Note: Unbound.

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Subject: God (Islam)—Proof—Early works to 1800; Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton; holographs (autographs); Autographs; Stamps

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Collection: Manuscripts of the Islamic World
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هذه رسالة في اثبات الواجب / للمولى ابي الحسن.

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