Author
Ghazzali, 1058-1111.
Publication Date
[193-?]
Subject
Qurʼan., Qurʼan. /
Sūrat al-Nūr, Qurʼan. / Sūrat al-Nūr /
Criticism, interpretation, etc., Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic /
Michigan, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan /
Ann Arbor., Sufism, Sufism /
Doctrines, Sufism / Doctrines /
Early works to 1800.
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
Unknown
Pages Count
26
Physical Dimensions
26 leaves : paper ; 283-306 x 200-215 mm. bound to 313 x 225 mm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
006819128
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: Careful though incomplete copy of al-Ghazālī's (d.1111) celebrated work on Ṣūfistic theory, arranged in six sections. | Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 911
Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; likely copied in Egypt in the late 1930s and bound for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974).
Accompanying materials: Slip of yellow tissue weight paper with note in purple pencil "مشكاة الانوار للغزالي ٦" (paginated pp.1-2).
Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 60
Binding: Boards covered in dark green cloth with dark green leather over spine (quarter binding) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a floral vegetal pattern in green ; spine gold-stamped with title and decorative accents over raised bands "مشكاة الانوار للغزالى | J.H.D." ; sewing difficult to examine ; stuck-on endbands (blue and white stripe) ; overall in fairly good condition with minor abrasion.
Support: Wove paper of two main types (unlined) and machine laid paper (lined).
Decoration: Entire text in red ink ; most 'title page' inscriptions in pencil.
Script: Ruqʻah ; quick, compact hand in a medium line ; serifless and freely ligatured with mainly closed counters, slight effect of words descending to baseline and inclination to the left, pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots, final yāʼ usually unpointed.
Layout: Written in 16-26 lines per page ; not frame-ruled ; where paper is unlined, lines typically slant upward.
Collation: Leaves between sections left fully blank or partially blank (serving as 'title pages' for the various sections, see pp.3, 11, 19, 27, 39, 47) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes insert).
Explicit: "وانما الذي يمكنني الآن ان اعرفك هذه الاقسام وبعض اصناف كل قسم فاقول"
Incipit: "الحمد لله مفيض الانوار وفاتح الابصار وكاشف الاسرار ورافع الاستار ... اما بعد فقد سألتني ايها الاخ الكريم فيضك الله لطلب السعادة الكبرى ...."
Title from inscription on 'title page' p.3.
Ms. codex.
On upper pastedown label with ex libris of James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974), stamped with inventory number, "Ex Libris | J. Heyworth-Dunne | D. Lit. (London) | No 7953" ; UM Library inscription on 'title page' (p.3) "Dunning | Heyworth-Dunne | 6-13-51 | 71955" ; possible former inventory mark in pencil on verso of final leaf p.54 "231 / 53" ; occasional marginal glosses.
