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15 works by 3 authors on the subjects of Philosophy, Theology, Prayer, Koran, Islam, Soul, Psychology, and Love

MS. Marsh 536

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For the main catalogue entry, see: Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

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Title

15 works by 3 authors on the subjects of Philosophy, Theology, Prayer, Koran, Islam, Soul, Psychology, and Love

Shelfmark

MS. Marsh 536

Language

Arabic

Contents

1. ff. 2v-9r Author: Avicenna, 980-1037 Title: Risālah fī qiyām al-arḍ wasṭ al-samāʼ
2. ff. 9v-27r Author: Avicenna, 980-1037 Title: Letter to al-Bīrūnī about Aristotle ʼsetc.
3. ff. 27v-32v Title: Risālah of Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥīm al-Nasawī to Omar Khayyam and the latterʼs reply
4. ff. 42v-49v Author: Avicenna, 980-1037 Title: Risālah fī al-ṣalāh
5. ff. 50r-53v Author: Ṣadaqah ibn ʻAlī, Zayn al-Dīn Title: Two works on the existence of God and manʼs knowledge of him.
6. ff. 53v-61v Author: Avicenna, 980-1037 Title: Commentary on Qurʼān, sūrahs 112-114
7. ff. 62v-64r Author: Avicenna, 980-1037 Title: Risālah Ijābat al-duʻāʼ
8. ff. 64r-67v Author: Avicenna, 980-1037 Title: al-Arzāq
9. ff. 69v-84v Author: Avicenna, 980-1037 Title: al-Inṣāf
10. ff. 85r-87v Author: Avicenna, 980-1037 Title: Fī tanāmī al-abʻād al-jismānīyah ʻalá al-wajh
11. ff. 89r-90r Author: Fārābī Title: Risālah fi māhīyat al-nafs
12. ff. 91v-98r Author: Avicenna, 980-1037 Title: Risālah fī aqsām al-ḥikmah
13. ff. 99v-112r Author: Avicenna, 980-1037 Title: Ḥaqāʼiq ʻilm al-tawḥīd Title: Risālah fī maʻrifat Allāh wa-ṣifātihi wa-afʻālihi) Title: al-Risālah al-ʻarshīyah
14. ff. 112r, v Author: Avicenna, 980-1037 Title: Risālah fī al-ḥathth ʻalá al-ishtighāl bil-dhikr (fī al-khalwah wa-al-dhikr wa-al-ḥathth ʻalá taṣfiyat al-bāṭin)
15. ff. 113r-125v Author: Avicenna, 980-1037 Title: Risālah fī al-ʻishq

Form

codex

Physical extent

8 ff. 19 ff. 6 ff. 8 ff. 4 ff. 9 ff. 3 ff. 4 ff. 16 ff. 3 ff. 2 ff. 8 ff. 14 ff. 1 f. 13 ff.

Acquisition

The Marsh bequest entered the Bodleian Library in 1714.

Provenance

The collections of Jacob Golius [see Golius Sale Catalogue, Libri Miscellanei M.S. in quarto &c, no. 44].

The Library of Archbishop Narcissus Marsh, d. 1713.

Subject

Koran--Interpretation

Soul

Prayer--Islam--Early works to 1800

Love

Theology, Islamic

Psychology

Islam--Prayers and devotions

Philosophy

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  • Avicenna

  • Aristotle

  • ʻUmar Khayyam

  • Golius, Jacobus, 1596-1667

  • Fārābī

  • Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥīm al-Nasawī

  • Marsh, Narcissus, 1638-1713

  • Ṣadaqah ibn ʻAlī, Zayn al-Dīn

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