Item Summary

Explanation of the term "al-lamam" as used in Sūrat al-Najm, verse 32 (53:32).

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب العلم في تفسير اللمم / تأليف سيدنا العبد الفقير الى الله تعالى الشيخ الامام العالم العلامة شمس الدين ابي عبد الله محمد بن عبد الرحمن بن ابي بكر الصوفي المالكي السعودي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-ʻAlam fī tafsīr al-lamam / taʼlīf sayyidinā al-ʻabd al-faqīr ilá Allāh taʻālá al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻālim al-ʻAllāmah Shams al-Dīn Abī ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr al-Ṣūfī al-Mālikī al-Suʻūdī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 683H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc02871656z
Publisher
[16--]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1600
Format
Manuscript
Extent
6 leaves : paper ; 217 x 158 (179 x 126) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
Source Acquisition
Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from leaf 1a.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 6 ; catchwords.
Layout: 15 lines per page.
Description: Written in large script in black on unglazed, laid European paper ; watermarks (hand with flower) ; ragged edges, a few paper repairs, some damp staining.
Origin: Original text completed on 11 Jumādá II 903 H (leaf 6b); this copy is likely from the 17th century.
Incipit: الحمد لله الذي رفع قدرنا بالقرآن على ساير الامم وجعله معجزة لنبينا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم
Binding Note
Unbound.

Discovery Information

Subject
Qurʼan Sūrat al-Najm 53—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
16

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/6e4db0dd-d535-4167-8910-20bca3f8c9e9/manifest