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Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, M V 1 : al-Kalimat at-tayyibāt al-ʿaliyya / ʿAlī Ibn Abi Talib

Title	Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, M V 1 : al-Kalimat at-tayyibāt al-ʿaliyya / ʿAlī Ibn Abi Talib
Publication Date:	1545
Type	Document
Language	Arabic
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Library:	University of Alabama at Birmingham Libraries
Record ID	cdi_manuscriptorium_primary_ECODIC_CHUBB_M_V_1_3Y56XU2_en
Library Location	Available Online
Date	1545
Notes	Famous collection of wise sayings attributed to the caliph ʿAlī Ibn Abī Ṭālib (deceased 661). Each proverb in Arabic is followed by its translation into Persian in Maṯnawī verses in Ramal meter. The sentences are also known by the title Ṣad kalima or Miʾat kalima and have been translated into Persian several times. This version does not name the translator. This copy was prepared by a well-known calligrapher from Shiraz, Ḥusayn al-Faḫḫār; it was completed in Rabīʿ II 952 h. [= June-July 1545]. The manuscript is from the bequest of the turkologist and scholar of Islamic studies Rudolf Tschudi (1884-1960).

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Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, M V 1 : al-Kalimat at-tayyibāt al-ʿaliyya / ʿAlī Ibn Abi Talib

Publication Date 1545

Type Document

Language Arabic

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Library University of Alabama at Birmingham Libraries

Record ID cdi_manuscriptorium_primary_ECODIC_CHUBB_M_V_1_3Y56XU2_en

Library Location Available Online

Date 1545

Notes Famous collection of wise sayings attributed to the caliph ʿAlī Ibn Abī Ṭālib (deceased 661). Each proverb in Arabic is followed by its translation into Persian in Maṯnawī verses in Ramal meter. The sentences are also known by the title Ṣad kalima or Miʾat kalima and have been translated into Persian several times. This version does not name the translator. This copy was prepared by a well-known calligrapher from Shiraz, Ḥusayn al-Faḫḫār; it was completed in Rabīʿ II 952 h. [= June-July 1545]. The manuscript is from the bequest of the turkologist and scholar of Islamic studies Rudolf Tschudi (1884-1960).