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Iḥyāʼ ʻulūm al-dīn.
احياء علوم الدين.
Library at the Katz Center - Rare Book Manuscript CAJS Rar Ms 150
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Ghazzālī, 1058-1111.
- Standardized Title:
- Iḥyāʼ ʻulūm al-dīn. Rubʻ al-muhlikāt
- احياء علوم الدين. ربع المهلكات
- Language:
- Arabic
- Subjects (All):
- Islam--Religious life.
- Islam.
- Islam--Customs and practices--Early works to 1800.
- Islam--Customs and practices.
- Islamic ethics--Early works to 1800.
- Islamic ethics.
- Islam--Religious life--Early works to 1800.
- Genre:
- Manuscripts, Arabic.
- Manuscripts, 17th century.
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- Islamic bindings (Binding)
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate inside front cover).
- Physical Description:
- i, 266 leaves : paper ; 266 x 165 (205 x 100) mm bound to 260 x 180 mm
- Other Title:
- Rubʻ al-muhlikāt
- Kitāb Iḥyāʼ ʻulūm al-dīn
- ربع المهلكات
- كتاب احياء علوم الدين
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], A.H. 1100 (1689)
- Language Note:
- Arabic.
- Summary:
- Neatly copied selections from Iḥyāʼ ʻulūm al-dīn, includes the 10 chapters from rubʻ al-muhlikāt.
- Notes:
- Title from added title page.
- Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper center recto; catchwords every verso lower left.
- Layout: Written in 29 long lines.
- Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed; titles in thuluth in red; pointed and vocalized.
- Decoration: Rubrications in red.
- Binding: Bound in dark brown leather over pasteboard which is beginning to separate; faint blind-stamped central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis and frame; black textile spine reinforcement.
- Origin: Copy completed between Muḥarram 1100 (f. 117r) and Muḥarram 1102 (f. 213v) (1688-1689 CE) . The final section is dated the end of Ṣafar 1100 A.H. (f. 240r), which might be a mistake. The copy was made by Muṣṭafá ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Karjī, a student of Shaykh ʻAbd al-Qādir (f. 28v, 94r, 117r, 138r, 167v, 213r, 240r).
- Kabīkaj invocation (first flyleaf recto at front of book).
- The name Ghulām Bahāʼ al-Dīn inscribed in ink (f. 266v).
- Cited as:
- CAJS Rar Ms 150
- OCLC:
- 1131863494
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