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رسالة في العلم اللدني والكسبي ... [الخ.]
Risālah fī al-ʻilm al-ladunī wa-al-kasbī ... [etc.]
1600-1699
A collection of largely philosophical, Sufi, and Shiʻite texts and extracts. Frequently quoted texts interspersed throughout the volume, not listed below, include Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī's al-Kashkūl, the Rasāʼil Ikhwān al-ṣafāʼ, and Nahj al-balāghah.
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Manuscripts of the Islamic World
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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- Publisher
- [16--?]
- People
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- Related Name
- Jāmī, 1414-1492
- جامى، 1414-1492
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 2005
- Language
- Arabic
- Subject
- Avicenna 980-1037—Ishārāt wa-al-tanbīhāt
- Qurʼan Sūrat al-Ṣaff 6—Commentaries—Early works to 1800
- Dream interpretation—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Arabic—Early works to 1800
- Fate and fatalism—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800
- Geography, Medieval—Early works to 1800
- Hadith (Shiites)—Early works to 1800
- Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
- Islamic philosophy—Early works to 1800
- Knowledge, Theory of (Islam)—Early works to 1800
- Predestination (Islam)—Early works to 1800
- Quotations, Arabic—Early works to 1800
- Soul—Islam—Early works to 1800
- Sufism—Early works to 1800
- Wills, Ethical—Early works to 1800
- Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
- Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton
- Gold tooled bindings
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Item Summary
A collection of largely philosophical, Sufi, and Shiʻite texts and extracts. Frequently quoted texts interspersed throughout the volume, not listed below, include Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī's al-Kashkūl, the Rasāʼil Ikhwān al-ṣafāʼ, and Nahj al-balāghah.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- رسالة في العلم اللدني والكسبي ... [الخ.]
- Transliterated Title
- Risālah fī al-ʻilm al-ladunī wa-al-kasbī ... [etc.]
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 2005
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/1z40m333k
- Publisher
- [16--?]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1600-1699
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 361 leaves : paper ; 178 x 94 mm bound to 178 x 94 mm.
- References
- Anawati, G. Muʼallafāt Ibn Sīnā (1950), no. 156.
- Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), 1051, 1058, 1220, 1600.
- Rights Statement
- No Known Copyright
- Contents
- 1. fol. 1b-4b: [Extracts].
- 2. fol. 4b-5a: Risālah fī al-ʻilm al-ladunī wa-al-kasbī.
- 3. fol. 5b-40a: [Extracts].
- 4. fol. 40b-53b: [Persian philosophical treatise]. Incomplete at end.
- 5. fol. 54a-57a: [Extracts].
- 6. fol. 57b-58a: Waṣīyat Luqmān li-ibnihi.
- 7. fol. 58b-59b: Min Bābā Jāmī. Extract from the writings of Jāmī.
- 8. fol. 59b-60a: [Commentary on Qurʼān 61:6]. In Arabic.
- 9. fol. 60b-63b: [Persian Sufi treatise]. Cites the writings of Ibn al-ʻArabī and Saʻd al-Dīn Ḥammūyah.
- 10. fol. 63b-66a: [Risālah fī bayān al-qaḍāʼ wa-al-qadar].
- 11. fol. 66b-74a: [Extracts and poetry].
- 12. fol. 74b-78a: Risālah dar māhiyat-i nafs va rūḥ / lil-Shaykh al-Raʼīs Abī ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh [ibn] Sīnā. In four fuṣūl.
- 13. fol. 78b-93b: Risālah fī bayān māhīyat al-rūḥ wa-al-ḥayāt wa-al-nafs wa-al-ʻaql wa-aqsāmihā wa-tawābiʻihā.
- 14. fol. 94a-95b: [Extracts].
- 15. fol. 96a-98a: [Letter].
- 16. fol. 98b-116b: [Selections from Ḥall mushkilāt al-Ishārāt / Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī]. A commentary on Avicenna's al-Ishārāt wa-al-tanbīhāt.
- 17. fol. 117a-128a: [Extracts].
- 18. fol. 128a-130a: [Selections from ʻAwārif al-maʻārif / ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad al-Suhrawardī]. Interspersed with other extracts.
- 19. fol. 130b-131b: [Extracts].
- 20. fol. 132a-143a: [Selections from Rabīʻ al-abrār / Maḥmūd ibn ʻUmar al-Zamakhshārī].
- 21. fol. 143a-209a: [Extracts].
- 22. fol. 209b-211a: [Letters].
- 23. fol. 211b-255b: [Extracts].
- 24. fol. 255a-264a: [Persian treatise on the stations of the soul]. In 12 marḥalah; text begins in the middle of marḥalah 8.
- 25. fol. 264a-265b: [Letters].
- 26. fol. 266b-278a: Risālah-i sabʻah-i aqālīm / az taṣānīf-i ... Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad Ṭūsī.
- 27. fol. 279a: [Extract].
- 28. fol. 280b-361a: [al-Ruʼyā wa-al-taʻbīr] / al-Shaykh al-Raʼīs Abū ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā.
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- List of contents on front pastedown.
- Origin: [Risālah fī bayān māhīyat al-rūḥ] Copied 1005 H.
- Incipit: [رسالة في علم اللدني] اعلم ... انه لابدّ من معرفة العلم و العالم و المعلوم -- [وصية لقمان] ىا بنى اوصىك بتقوى الله و خشىته و لزوم حق الله -- [رسالة في بيان القضاء] الحمد لله الذى [قضى] کل ما قدر و قدر کل ما قضى ... و بعد فىقول ... ان هذه رسالة ... فى بىان القضاء
- Binding Note
- Later type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Gold-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled edging.
Discovery Information
- Subject
- Avicenna 980-1037—Ishārāt wa-al-tanbīhāt
- Qurʼan Sūrat al-Ṣaff 6—Commentaries—Early works to 1800
- Dream interpretation—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Arabic—Early works to 1800
- Fate and fatalism—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800
- Geography, Medieval—Early works to 1800
- Hadith (Shiites)—Early works to 1800
- Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
- Islamic philosophy—Early works to 1800
- Knowledge, Theory of (Islam)—Early works to 1800
- Predestination (Islam)—Early works to 1800
- Quotations, Arabic—Early works to 1800
- Soul—Islam—Early works to 1800
- Sufism—Early works to 1800
- Wills, Ethical—Early works to 1800
- Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
- Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton
- Gold tooled bindings
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 726
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/38866931-b09c-4050-905d-f46b09221384/manifest