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Or 11875
- Record Id:
- 032-003719845
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003719845
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100110634812.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100166344982.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 11875
- Title:
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Fātiḥat al-ʿulūm فاتحة العلوم
Ghazzālī غزالي
- Scope & Content:
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A treatise on knowledge, and on the value, classification and study of the sciences and the required qualities of the scholar, in seven sections (باب), by Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī al-Ghazzāli (أبو حامد محمد بن محمد الطوسي الغزّالي), also known as al-Ghazālī (الغزالي, latinised as Algazel, ca 1058-1111).
The copy was completed on 7 Shawwāl 833/29 June 1430 by the scribe Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan (محمد بن حسن, see colophon, f. 49r, lines 13-17, transcribed below).
F. 28v is blank.
Content:
- Section one on the merit of knowledge (الباب الأول في فضيلة العلم, ff. 1v-5v);
- Section two on the rectitude of the intention to seek knowledge (الباب الثاني في تصحيح النية في طلب العلم, ff. 5v-12r);
- Section three on the most erudite scholars (الباب الثالث في العلامات الفاضلة, ff. 12r-23v);
- Section four on the important sciences and their branches (الباب الرابع في العلوم المهمة وأقسامها, ff. 23v-32v);
- Section five on conditions and defects of argumentation (الباب الخامس في الشروط المناظرة وآفاتها, ff. 32v-38v);
- Section six on the proper comportment of the teacher and the student (الباب السادس في آداب المعلم والمتعلم, ff. 38v-43v);
- Section seven on what scholars are allowed to take from rulers'' money (الباب السابع فيما يحل للعلماء أخذه من أموال السلاطين, ff. 43v-49r).
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-4):
الحمد لله الذي بذكره يفتتح كل كتاب والصلوة والسلام على رسوله الذي
بالصلوة عليه يختتم كل خطاب وعلى آله وأصحابه الذين بأنوارهم ينجلي عن وجه الحق
كل سحاب وينكشف كل حجاب...
Ends (f. 49r, lines 8-10):
...فقال لو أخذ رجل بيدي فأدخلني الجنة
ثم عصى ربه ما أحبه قلبي لأن سخره للأخذ بيدي هو الذي أبغضه
لأجله شكرًا له على تستخيره إياه...
Colophon (f. 49r, lines 10-18):
...هذه خاتمة الفاتحة فلنقتصر عليها
والحمد لله رب العالمين ومع الفراغ
من كتابة هذا الكتاب ومن الزوال
يوم الخميس سابع الشهر المبارك
الشوال سنة ثلاث
وثلاثين وثمانمائة
على يد أضعف العباد
محمد بن حسن عفي
عفي لهما
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003719845
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003719845
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. i+49+i
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100110634812.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1430
- End Date:
- 1430
- Date Range:
- 7 Shawwāl 833
- Calendar:
- Hijri-qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Eastern laid paper
Dimensions: 183 x 127 mm leaf 155 x 85 mm written
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah; 22 lines per page; vertical spacing 14 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh; the scribe is Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan (محمد بن حسن, see colophon, f. 49r, lines 13-17)
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings
Decoration: None
Binding: Blue cardboard binding
Condition: Some waterstains and tears to paper to end of volume
Marginalia: Some marginal comments and corrections, mostly towards beginning of volume
Seals: British Museum stamp: f. 1r, 49v
- Custodial History:
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- Saʿd al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad al-Jundī al-Ḥasanī (سعد الدين بن محمد الجندي الحسني): his inscription without date, f. 1r
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from E. R. Sasson, 24 December 1948
- Publications:
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Editions:
- Ghazzālī, Fātiḥat al-‘ulūm, ed. by Muḥammad ʿAwaḍ al-Manqūsh et al. (al-Qāhirah: Dār al-Rāfiʿī lil-nashr wa-al-tawzīʿ, 2021)
- Ghazzālī, Fātiḥat al-‘ulūm, ed. by ʿAdnān Abū Shāmah (Dimashq: Maktabat Dār al-Fajr, 1997?)
- Ghazzālī, Kitāb Fātiḥat al-‘ulūm, ed. by Muḥammad Badr al-Dīn al-Naʿsānī (al-Qāhirah: al-Maṭba‘a al-Husaynīyah al-Miṣrīyah, 1904 1322)
Translation:
- Asín Palacios, Compendio musulmán de pedagogía: el ‘Libro de la introducción a las ciencias de Algacel’ (Zaragoza: Berdejo Casañal, 1924)
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)