Descriptive Information

Title

Kitāb Inqādh al-bashar min al-jabr wa-al-qadar.

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 393B

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/8049g7691

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1100-1199

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

Copied A.H. 592 [A.D. 1196] by Abū Naṣr ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-ḥasan ibn Abī Saʻd al-Ṭabīb.

Fols. 76; 17.2 x 13 cm.; written surface 12.5 x 9.2 cm.; 19 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; with vowel signs; entries in red.

A collection containing :

1. Kitāb Inqādh al-bashar min al-jabr wa-al-qadar, a philosophical treatise discussing fatalism and predestination and establishing manʼs free will.

2. Another treatise on free will entitled Kitāb al-Taqrīr li-awjuh al-taqdīr.

A few marginal notes and glosses; MS in good condition but worm-eaten; Arabic binding.

Acquired from Bārūdī, Beirūt, A.D. 1925.

Discovery Information

Subject

Fate and fatalism—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800

Free will and determinism—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800

Predestination (Islam)—Early works to 1800

Physical Characteristics

File Count

41

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/231c42db-123a-451f-9a78-25978a2e55da/manifest

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