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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
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.
1800-1899
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).
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- Publisher
- [19th century?]
- People
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- Author
- Ḥamdān ibn ʻUthmān Khawājah, approximately 1775-1839 or 1840
- حمدان بن عثمان خواجه، approximately 1775-1839 or 1840
- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3036Y
- Language
- Arabic
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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
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcrv0437568
- Publisher
- [19th century?]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1800-1899
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 41 leaves: paper ; 233 x 148 (162 x 75) mm bound to 233 x 153 mm.
- Provenance
- From the books of Aḥmad Nūr al-Dīn Sūʻādīʹzādah (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).
- Marginal notes. Table of contents (fol. [ii]b-1a). Bookseller's labels: "ELS No. 3036" and "Ḥāʼ 145/2" (upper pastedown).
- Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 40 + i ; catchwords ; pagination in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
- Description: Some vowel signs.
- Decoration: Simple headpiece of red lines.
- Incipit: الهم لك الحمد الذى حمدت به نفسك فى الازل ... اما بعد فلا يخفى؟ على ذى لب ان عالم الشهادة بالنسبة الينا كالمرءآة انموذج لعالم الغيب ...
- Colophon: ... سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم وآخر دعانا ان الحمد لله رب العالمين م
- Binding Note
- Later? binding in red leather and brown and orange marbled paper. Green paper pastedowns and fly-leaves.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 93
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/b7896c85-2951-4637-9fbd-4fdd728c37f2/manifest