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Arundel Or 10, ff 4v-9v

Record Id:

040-002430230

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002409588

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000006202.0x000001

LARK:

SLARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100023901480.0x000001

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Arundel Or 10, ff 4v-9v

Title:

Refutation of an anonymous poem excusing disbelief in God

Ibn Taymīyah, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm ابن تيمية، أحمد بن عبد الحليم

Scope & Content:

The text begins with eight lines of a poem in which the anonymous poet tries to excuse his disbelief in God (f. 4v, lines 2-9), and continues with a refutation of the poet's points by the theologian Taqī al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm ibn Taymīyah (تقي الدين أحمد بن عبد الحليم بن تيمية; AD 1263-1328).

Manuscript completed by an anonymous scribe on 3 Dhū al-Ḥijja 712/4 April 1313 in part in Aleppo (see colophon to Item 1; f. 9v, lines 5-7). The final colophon in the manuscript is dated late Sha‘bān 711/early January 1312, which perhaps indicates that the manuscript is bound out of its original order (see colophon to Item 8, f. 174r, lines 13-14).

Begins (f. 4v, lines 2-5):

إيا علماء الذين ذمي دينكم تحيّر دُلوه لأوضح حجت

إذا ما قضى ربّي بكفري يزعمكم ولم يرضه منه فما وجه حيلت

دعاني وسدّ الباب عني فهل إلى دخولي سبيل بيّنوا إلى قضيت

قضى بضلالي ثمّ قال أرض بالقضاء فهل أنا راضٍ بالذي فيه شقوتي

Ends (f. 9v, lines 1-4):

وإختار أن لا إختار فعل ضلالة ولو نلت هذا الترك فزت بنوبة

وذا ممكن لكنه متوقف على ما يشاء الله من ذا المشية

فدونك فافهم ما به قد أجبت من معان إذا انحلت بفهم غريزه

إشارة إلى أصل تشير إلى الهدى ولله رب الخلق أكمل مدحه

Colophon (f. 9v, lines 5-7):

تمت والحمد لله بحلب عشية نهار السبت الثالث من ذي الحجة

سنة إثنا عشر وسبعمائة وصلى الله على من انقذ (؟) من الردي وحملنا

على منهج السعادة والهدى وعلى آله وصحبه أولى الفضل والندى

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Arundel Manuscripts
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002409588
040-002430230

Is part of:

Arundel Or 10 : Medical compendium

Arundel Or 10, ff 4v-9v : Refutation of an anonymous poem excusing disbelief in GodIbn Taymīyah, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm ابن…

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032-002409588[0001]/040-002430230

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

ff. 4v-9v

Digitised Content:

https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000005583.0x000001

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Languages:

Arabic

Scripts:

Arabic

Start Date:

1312

End Date:

1313

Date Range:

711-712

Calendar:

Hijri qamari

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper

Dimensions: 174 x 124 mm leaf [130 x 94 mm written]

Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil

Ruling:

Misṭarah; 11 lines per page; vertical spacing 8 lines per 10 cm (ff. 4v-27v);
Misṭarah; 15 lines per page; vertical spacing lines per 10 cm (ff. 28v-104r and 109r-174r);
No ruling visible; average 18 lines per page; 16 lines per 10 cm (ff. 105v-108v)

Script: Naskh

Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and over lining in red

Binding: British Museum binding in brown leather

Condition: minor waterstains, some foxing and light grime from thumbing, some folios torn and repaired (e.g. ff. 10, 11 and 68)

Marginalia: Occasional marginal annotations and corrections

Custodial History:

See note on f. 28r of one Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Khalīl (?) ibn al-Ḥaṣūn (?) who inspected and copied the texts on ff. 28v-104r and 109r-174r on 17 Jumādá II 829/26 April 1426.

Front paper i verso contains an anonymous bookplate with motto ‘NULLIUS IN VERBA’.

Folio 4r contains stamp inscribed ‘Soc. Reg. Lond. ex dono Henr. Howard Norfolciensis’.

Administrative Context:

Aleppo

Finding Aids:

Cureton, William, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens (London: The British Museum 1846-71), pp. 456-57 (Item 984)

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Ibn Taymīyah, Aḥmad ibn ‘Abd al-Ḥalīm, 1263-1328

Subjects:

Poetry