Author
Jaʻbarī, Arslān ibn Yaʻqūb, -1300.
Publication Date
[193-?]
Subject
Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic /
Michigan, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan /
Ann Arbor., God, God /
Simplicity, God / Simplicity /
Early works to 1800., God (Islam), God (Islam) /
Early works to 1800., Islam, Islam /
Doctrines, Islam / Doctrines /
Early works to 1800., Sufism, Sufism /
Doctrines, Sufism / Doctrines /
Early works to 1800.
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
Unknown
Pages Count
40
Physical Dimensions
40 leaves : paper ; 134 x 104 mm. bound to 140 x 108 mm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
006833915
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: Careful copy of what appears to be excerpts from the treatise by al-Shaykh Raslān, Arslān ibn Yaʻqūb al-Jaʻbarī (d.1300) on divine oneness, with some commentary. | Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 992
Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; likely copied in Egypt in the late 1930s and bound for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974).
Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 141
Binding: Boards covered in black textured cloth ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a geometric pattern (resembling a scale pattern) in olive green or dull gold ; cover gold-stamped with "رسالة المولى رسلان حقيقة التوحيد" ; sewn in white thread over two recessed cords ; overall in fairly good condition.
Support: Wove paper.
Script: Ruqʻah ; quick, compact hand in a medium to bold line (ink and line thickness changes, black to grey-blue, though appears to be same hand) ; serifless and freely ligatured with effect of inclination to the right and of words descending to baseline, mainly closed counters, pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots, final yāʼ usually unpointed ; some passages in a large, fine naskh.
Layout: Written mainly in 9-11 lines per page.
Collation: i, 5 IV(40), i ; possible quire number on p.80 (suggesting that gatherings are not in original order) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.
Explicit: "وما جعل عليكم في الدين من جرح ملة ابيكم ابراهيم هو سماكم المسلمين من قبل"
Incipit: "قال العارف بالله المولى رسلان في رسالة وضعها لبيان خلاصة التوحيد ما نصه كلك شرك خفي قال بعض الشراح كلك اي نفسك وا حوت وما اليها انتسب شرك خفي اي اثبات للغير منشاؤه الوهم والخيال ..."
Title from inscriptions on 'title page' (p.1).
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. 7936" ; UM Library inscription on p.3 "Dunning | Heyworth-Dunne | 6-11-51 | 71955" ; occasional marginal corrections and glosses.
