Islamic philosophy
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Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia
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Identifier: Or Ms
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of over 700 manuscripts pertaining to the Islamicate world and South Asia, dating from the 10th to 19th centuries C.E. (the majority being post-1500). Chiefly bound paper codices, it includes sacred texts of importance to the Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh faiths, Qur’anic commentaries, Traditions of the Prophet Muhammad and the Shi’i Imams, works treating Islamic law, world history, the history of India, medicine,...
Dates:
10th-19th centuries C.E. (bulk: post-1500 C.E.)
احیاء علوم الدیّن Iḥyāʾ ʿulūm al-dīn, 781 A.H., 1379 C.E.
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 394
Scope and Contents
The famous Arabic work on ethics by the great Shafi'ite Imām Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad bin Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī of Ṭūs 450-505 A.H. (1058-1111 C.E.), whose honorific title was Ḥujjat-al-Islām "The Proof of Islam”, with a lacuna of six leaves (according to the Arabic pagination) between fols. 169 and 170. It is divided into four quarters or sections, each subdivided into ten books.The present copy is 30 cm by 18.5 cm and has 505 folios, it is written in excellent old Naskh, fully...
Dates:
781 A.H.; 1379 C.E.
ترجمهٔ تهذيب الاخلاق Tarjumah-yi Tahz̲īb al-akhlāq, 1081 A.H., 1670 C.E.
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 261
Scope and Contents
A treatise on ethics and practical philosophy.
The author's name is not given, but the title and chapter headings indicate that this is a Persian translation the Arabic work Tahz̲īb al-akhlāq, (also called Ṭahārat al-nafs) by Abū ‘Alī Aḥmad b. Muḥammad Miskawayh (d. 421 A.H., 1030 C.E.), known as Ibn Miskawayh.
Dates:
1081 A.H.; 1670 C.E.
شرح الاشارات والتّنبیهات Sharḥ al-Ishārāt wa-al-tanbīhāt, undated copy (original text composed 13th cent. C.E.)
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 393
Scope and Contents
The second and third part of an Arabic commentary on al-Ishārāt wa-al-Tanbīhāt, a work on logic, physics, and metaphysics by Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) d. 428 A.H. (1037 C.E.), by the famous philosopher and astronomer Khwājah Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (d. 672 A.H., 1274 C.E.) completed 644 A.H. (1246-1247 C.E.).
Dates:
undated copy (original text composed 13th cent. C.E.)