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Summary of Contents: المقصد الأسنى في معانى اسماء الله الحسنى Al-Maqsadu'l-Asnà [not -Aqsa, as written in the colophon of f. 85] fí Ma'ání Asma'i'llahi'l-Husuà ("the Ultimate Goal, on the Meanings of the Most Comely Names of God"), by Abú Hámid Muhammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazálí (b. 451/ 1059, d. 505/1111). See Brockelmann's Gesch. d. Arab. Litt., vol. 1, p. 421, No. 5; and Ahlwardt's Berlin Arabic Catalogue, vol. II, pp. 500-501 (Nos. 2219-2220). Ff. 86 of 20'8 x 15 c. and 17 ll.; clear but ungraceful nasta'liq with rubrications; transcription completed on Şafar 19, 973 (Sept. 15, 1565). This is one of the MSS. collected by the late Hájjí 'Abdu'l-Majid Belshah which fell to my share in the fourth partition of the same at the British Museum on Nov. 12, 1920.

Author: Ghazzālī, 1058-1111 ابو حامد محمد بن محمد الغزالى

Title: al-Maqṣad al-asná fī maʻānī asmāʼ Allāh al-ḥusná

Title: المقصد الاسنى في معاني اسماء الله الحسنى

Language(s): Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Paper

Extent: Ff. 86

Dimensions: 20.8 × 15 cm.

Layout

17 lines

Hand(s)

clear but ungraceful masta'liq with rubrications

History

Origin: 973 AH; 1565 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

This is one of the MSS. collected by the late Hájjí ʿAbduʾl-Majid Belshah which fell to my share in the fourth partition of the same at the British Museum on Nov. 12, 1920.

Bequest of E. G. Browne.

Record Sources

Summary, physical description and provenance copied from R. A. Nicholson: A descriptive catalogue of the Oriental MSS belonging to the late E.G. Browne. Cambridge, 1932.

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

Subjects

God (Islam)--Name

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