Sharḥ al-Sanūsī fī al-tawḥīd / 1751 and شرح السنوسي في التوحيد / 1751

Description

Title

Sharḥ al-Sanūsī fī al-tawḥīd / 1751
شرح السنوسي في التوحيد / 1751

Alternative Title

Tawḥīd ahl al-ʻirfān wa-maʻrifat Allāh wa-Rasūlihi bi-al-dalīl wa-al-burhān
توحيد أهل العرفان ومعرفة الله ورسوله بالدليل والبرهان

Creator

Sanūsī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, approximately 1427-approximately 1490
سنوسي، محمد بن يوسف، حوالي 1427-حوالي 1490

Contributor

Sanūsī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, approximately 1427-approximately 1490.

Abstract

Commentary on the author's ʻAqīdat ahl al-tawḥīd al-ṣughrá (tract on the principles of faith). The work ends on leaf 19, and is followed by other pieces

Lacuna between leaves 16 and 17.

Copied in A.H. 1164 (A.D. 1751).

Description

Also known as: Tawḥīd ahl al-ʻirfān wa-maʻrifat Allāh wa-rasūlihi bi-al-dalīl wa-al-burhān (Ahlwardt, Brockelmann); supplied by a modern hand inside front cover: Tawḥīd ahl al-ʻirfān.
Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm ... Qāla ... Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Sanūsī ... al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī shahida bi-wujūb wujūdihi wa-waḥdānīyatihi wa-ʻaẓīm jalālihi ..."
Coarse naskhī.
Compared with Ahlwardt 2008 (different explicit); the lacuna between leaves 16 and 17 must be quite large.
Colophon: "Wa-kāna farāghuhā yawm al-Thulāthā, min awākhir Jumādá al-Ākhir, min shuhūr sanat alf wa-miʼah wa-arbaʻah wa-sittīn ... Wa-kātibuhā ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar al-Bayrūnī baladan ibn Muḥammad al-ʻĀlī al-shahir̄ bi-al-Qaḥf ..."
Translation of the colophon: "It was completed on Tuesday, the end of Jumādá al-Ākhir, of the year 1164 [of the Hijrah = 25 May 1751] ... Copied by ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar al-Bayrūnī baladan, ibn Muḥammad al-ʻĀlī, nicknamed al-Qaḥf ..."

Provenance

Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949.

Extent

20 22 x 16 cm. leaves ;

Extent of Digitization

This object has been completely digitized.

Language

Arabic

Collection Information

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Arabic MSS 231

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic 18th century
Arabic manuscripts
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Name): Sanūsī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, approximately 1427-approximately 1490.
Subject (Topic): Islam
Doctrines
Subjects: Sanūsī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, approximately 1427-approximately 1490
Islam > Doctrines > Early works to 1800
18th century
Arabic manuscripts

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Citation: Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Sanūsī, Sharḥ ʻAqīdat ahl al-tawḥīd al-ṣughrá. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Identifiers

Catalog Record: 3759318
Object ID (OID): 33330929