Item Summary

A work dealing with those ambiguous verses of the Koran which deal with the nature of God and may have a doubtful conception thereof.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب رد معاني الايات المتشابهات الى معاني الايات المحكمات / تأليف محيي الدين محمد ابو عبد الله الاشبيلي الشافعي المعروف بابن اللبان.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Radd maʻānī al-āyāt al-mutashābihāt ilá maʻānī al-āyāt al-muḥkamāt / taʼlīf Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad Abū ʻAbd Allāh al-Ishbīlī al-Shāfiʻī al-maʻrūf bi-Ibn al-Labbān.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 677H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcqr46rb801
Publisher
[18th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1799
Format
Manuscript
Extent
32 leaves : paper ; 208 x 155 (150 x 90) mm. bound to 216 x 163 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signature: Ḥasan [..]; Abū al-Nājib Ḥasan ibn Abū al-Jūd Ibrāhīm ibn Abū Ḥāzim ... al-Shāfiʻī al-Shādhilī with seal impression (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1292.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, p. 353.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 716.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes and glosses; marginal summaries. On the title page is a table of contents and a quote from Ibn al-Rūmī. Identification of author with Ibn al-Labbān a later addition to the title page; Ziriklī links the work with Ibn al-Labbān, Brockelmann doesn't.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 32 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (crown-star-crescent) ; MS in good condition, light staining.
Origin: Probably from the XVIIIth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين قال الشيخ الامام العالم العارف المحقق الكامل محيى الدين محمد ... اما بعد حمد الله الواحد بذاته وصفاته ...
Colophon.: هذا آخر ما يسره الله تعالى من کتاب رد معاني الايات المتشابهات الى معاني الايات المحکمات تأليف العارف بالله تعالى محيي الدين محمد ابو عبدالله الاشبيلي الشافعي نفعنا الله به امين
Binding Note
Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in fabric and dark brown spotted paper. Brown pastedowns and end papers.

Discovery Information

Subject
Qurʼan—Criticism, interpretation, etc—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Stamps
Autographs
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
76

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/441897f2-89f2-422f-a8ea-a2347dbe7473/manifest