Iḥyāʼ ʻulūm al-dīn; احياء علوم الدين

Alternate Title:

Rubʻ al-muhlikāt; Kitāb Iḥyāʼ ʻulūm al-dīn

Contributor:

Karjī, Muṣṭafá ibn ʻAbd Allāh, active 1689 (scribe); Ghulām Bahāʼ al-Dīn (associated name); Sulzberger, Mayer, 1843-1923 (former owner); Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (former owner)

Name:

Ghazzālī, 1058-1111

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1689

Description:

Neatly copied selections from Iḥyāʼ ʻulūm al-dīn, includes the 10 chapters from rubʻ al-muhlikāt.

Language:

Arabic

Provenance:

Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate inside front cover).

Publisher:

[publisher not identified]

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/kcajs_rar_ms150.html

Subject:

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

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Arabic; Manuscripts, 17th century; Codices (bound manuscripts); Blind tooled (decoration); Islamic bindings (Binding)

Physical Description:

i, 266 leaves : paper; 266 x 165 (205 x 100) mm bound to 260 x 180 mm

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

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).; Arabic.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Rare Book Manuscripts, CAJS Rar Ms 150