Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Questions and answers on Shiʻī religious philosophy and practice.

Authors

• Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund

Call number

Ms. Codex 1964
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962793863503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1083523453

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

between 1725 and 1825?

Place

Iran? ;

Summary

Copy of a series of branching questions and answers about religious philosophy and practice, divided into chapters by topic. This copy begins and ends abruptly. The first complete chapter is kitāb-i tawḥīd (beginning f. 2r) and the last, incomplete, chapter is kitāb-i qaz̤ā (beginning f. 155r).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

40 leaves : 165 x 105 (115 x 72) mm bound to 171 x 113 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Rebound in modern brown leather.

Layout

11 long lines.

Script

Written in naskh; pointed, vocalized.

Provenance

• Sold on eBay in 2014.
   

Subjects topical

• Religious life--Shīʻah--Early works to 1800
• Islam--Customs and practices--Early works to 1800
• Shīʻah--Customs and practices--Early works to 1800
• Shīʻah--Miscellanea--Early works to 1800
• Shīʻah--Doctrines--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts, Arabic--18th century

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [Questions and answers on Shiʻī religious philosophy and practice].