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Summary of Contents: 1 copy of al-Tanwīr fī isqāṭ al-tadbīr by Ibn ʿAṭāʾ Allāh, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1309

Author: Ibn ʿAṭāʾ Allāh, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1309 ابن عطاء الله الاسكندري، أحمد بن محمد، ت. 709 هـ

Title: al-Tanwīr fī isqāṭ al-tadbīr

Title: التنوير في إسقاط التدبير

Fol. 68v: A long quotation from the mystic Abū al-Ghayth ibn Jamīl ابو الغيث بن جميل

Fol. 70: A quotation from the mystic ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī, -1166 الجيلاني، عبد القادر بن موسى، 471-561 هـ

Incipit: الحمد لله المنفرد بالخلق و التدبير ... اعلم يا اخي جعلك الله من اهل جنته ... و سميته التنوير في اسقاط التدبير

Language(s): Arabic

References

Printed catalogue no. 696

GAL II 117-18, esp. no. 9; II 145-7

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 70 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 22.1 × 15.0 cm.

Dimensions (written):

Foliation:

Layout

25 lines per page

Hand(s)

Written in clear Maghribī by Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik Anṣarī al-Misrātī al-Tūnisī محمد بن عبد الملك الانصاري المسراتي التونسي in the mosque of Kafr Kanā كفر كنا ; red headings.

Decoration

History

Origin: Dated Tuesday 24th Jumādā II 902 AH

Provenance and Acquisition

Many inscriptions by previous owners on title page.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on H. L. Gottschalk et al.: Islamic Arabic Manuscripts. Catalogue of the Mingana Collection of Manuscripts. Vol. IV. Revised edition edited by Derek Hopwood. Birmingham: Selly Oak Colleges, 1985, with additional enhancements.

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Funding of Cataloguing

Cadbury Research Library

Subjects

Sufism

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