Materials for the Intellectual History of Im m Sh ism in the Safavid Period: A Facsimile Edition of Ms New York Public Library, Arabic Manuscripts Collections, Volume 51985A
Materials for the Intellectual History of Im m Sh ism in the Safavid Period: A Facsimile Edition of Ms New York Public Library, Arabic Manuscripts Collections, Volume 51985A
In 1934 the New York Public Library purchased a sizable collection of 250 volumes of Arabic manuscripts through the fund for Semitic literature that had been provided by Jacob Heinrich Schiff (d. 1920). While the collection is known to have been purchased in Baghdad, no further details are available about the transaction. The collection contains a fair number of writings by Ibr h m Fa b. ibghat All h al- aydar al-Baghd d (d. 1299/1882) and by some earlier members of the prominent usayn b d / aydar -family, and this ...
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In 1934 the New York Public Library purchased a sizable collection of 250 volumes of Arabic manuscripts through the fund for Semitic literature that had been provided by Jacob Heinrich Schiff (d. 1920). While the collection is known to have been purchased in Baghdad, no further details are available about the transaction. The collection contains a fair number of writings by Ibr h m Fa b. ibghat All h al- aydar al-Baghd d (d. 1299/1882) and by some earlier members of the prominent usayn b d / aydar -family, and this in addition to numerous Twelver Sh titles.The present volume contains a facsimile reproduction of Ms New York Public Library, Volume 51985A, which belongs to the Sh material among the collection. It is a heavily damaged multitext codex of 252 leaves which which comprises seven individual works: An incomplete copy of Khi r b. Mu ammad b. Al al-R z al- ablir d 's (d. ca. 850/1447) longer commentary on the All ma al- ill 's al-B b al- ad ashar, J mi al-durar f shar al-B b al- d ashar; several works by Ibn Ab Jumh r al-A s (d. after 906/1501), viz.Qabs al-iqtid f shar i al-ift wa-l-istift , K shifat al- l an a w l al-istidl l, and al-Mas lik al-j mi iyya f shar al-Alfiyya, which were copied during the author's lifetime; Bah al-D n Mu ammad b. al- usayn al- mil 's ("al-Shaykh al-Bah ", d. 1030/1621) Tafs r s rat al-f ti a, or al- Urwa al-wuthq ; and two works by Bah al-D n Mu ammad b. asan al-I fah n "al-F il al-Hind " (d. 1137/1725) which are not attested elsewhere--a commentary ( shiya) on the chapter on the imamate of Sa d al-D n al-Taft z n 's (d. 792/1390) Shar al-Maq id, and a commentary on the Nahj al- aqq wa-kashf al- idqby the All ma al- ill .
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