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Umm al-barāhīn
Creator
سنوسي، محمد بن يوسف، approximately 1427-approximately 1490.
Title
Umm al-barāhīn, [17--] / li-Abī ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Sanūsī.
أم البراهين، [17--] / لأبي عبد الله محمد بن يوسف السنوسي.
Physical Description
1 v. ([11] leaves) ; 24 cm.
Language
Arabic
Notes
Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm wa-bihi [nastaʻīn]. Qāla al-Shaykh al-walī al-ṣāliḥ al-zāhid al-wariʻ Abū ʻAbd Allāh Sayyidī Abī Yūsuf al-Ḥusaynī al-Sanūsī, raḍiya Allāh taʻālá ʻanh: al-Ḥamdu lillāh wa-al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām ʻalá Rasūl Allāh. Iʻlam ann al-ḥukm al-ʻaqlī yanḥaṣiru fī thalāthat aqsām al-wujūb wa-al-istiḥālah wa-al-jawāz ..."
البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه [نستعين]. قال الشيخ الولي الصالح الزاهد الورع أبو عبد الله سيدي أبي يوسف الحسيني السنوسي، رضي الله تعالى عنه: الحمد لله والصلاة والسلام على رسول الله. اعلم أن الحكم العقلي ينحصر في ثلاثة أقسام الوجوب والاستحالة والجواز ..."
17 x 24 cm; written surface: 7 x 11 cm, 11 lines per page.
Unbound.
In good naskhī script; in black ink, on yellowish paper; keywords in red; catchwords.
Colophon: "Tammat ʻalá yad kātibihā li-nafsihi al-faqīr ʻAbduh al-Jaʻfarāwī baladan al-Shāfiʻī madhhaban ibn al-marḥūm al-Shaykh ʻAlī al-Jaʻfarāwī ghafar Allāh la-hu wa-li-wālidayhi wa-al-Muslimīn. Āmīn, Āmīn, Āmīn."
النهاية: "تمت على يد كاتبها لنفسه الفقير عبده الجعفراوي بلدًا الشافعي مذهبًا بن المرحوم الشيخ علي الجعفراوي غفر الله له ولوالديه والمسلمين. آمين، آمين، آمين."
In Arabic.
Forms part of the Hartford Seminary Collection. For a description of the collection, search by call number: Hartford Seminary.
Provenance
Purchased from Hartford Seminary on the Beinecke Rare Book & Capital Reserve Fund, 2005.
Summary
Summary of the Islamic doctrines by Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Sanūsī (ca. 1427-ca. 1490), a pious and prolific Muslim scholar from Tlemcen, Algeria. Copied by ʻAbduh ibn ʻAlī al-Jaʻfarawī. Place and date of copying not mentioned, probably in the 18th century in Egypt.
Variant and related titles
Also known by the title: ʻAqīdah al-Sanūsīyah, or, al-ʻAqīdah al-ṣughrá
وتعرف أيضًا بعنوان: عقيدة السنوسية، أو، العقيدة الصغرى
ʻAqīdah al-ṣughrá
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2011
References
Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Sanūsi, Umm al-barāhīn. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Sanūsi, Umm al-barāhīn. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Arabic - Egypt - 18th century.
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