Majmūʿa-yi rasāʾil : ʿAjāʾib aḥkām Amīr al-Muʾminīn, Dhikr al-khalāʾif wa-ʿunwān al-maʿārif, Faḍl al-ʿilm, Dhakhāʾir al-ḥikma, Mukhtaṣar-i Jāvidān khirad / by Ibn Miskawayh ; (Edited by) Aḥmad Mahdavī Dāmghānī.
مجموعه رسائل (عجائب احکام امیرالمومنین، ذکر الخلائف و عنوان المعارف، فضل العلم، ذخائر الحکمة، مختصر جاودان خرد) (نسخه برگردان) edited by با مقدمه: احمد مهدوی دامغانی.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miskawayh, Ibn, author.

Contributor:

Mahdavī Dāmghānī, Aḥmad, editor.

دامغانی ، احمد مهدوی, editor.

Language:

English

Persian

Subjects (All):

Islam--Study and teaching.

Islam.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, [2019]

Language Note:

Persian.

Summary:

Today most oriental manuscript collections are kept in institutional and other (semi-) public libraries. Yet many of these collections were jumpstarted with the acquisition or donation of some private collection. Even now, private collections may still yield unexpected finds. A case in point is MS Tehran, National Library, Arabic 16574. This manuscript belonged earlier and until 1423/2002 to Sayyid Muḥsin Amīn ʿĀmilī, author of the famous biographical dictionary Aʿyān al-Shīʿa , and then to his son Sayyid Ḥasan Amīn, after whose death it devolved to the National Library of Iran. Compiled in 420/1029, this manuscript contains six medium-sized classical texts in Arabic from before ca. 390/1000. From among these, special mention must be made of an abbreviated version ( mukhtaṣar ) of Ibn Miskawayh's (d. 421/1030) gnomological work in Arabic, the Jāvidān khirad . Copied while Ibn Miskawayh was still alive, this abbreviation represents the oldest sample of the original text and certainly merits consideration in any future edition.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-40731-6

OCLC:

1096223675

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004407312 DOI