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Book/Printed Material The Luminous Treasure with Acceptable Answers to Matters of Faith.

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Title

  • The Luminous Treasure with Acceptable Answers to Matters of Faith.

Summary

  • Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Aḥmad al-Bashbīshī (1631--85) was an Islamic jurist of the Shāfiʻī school of jurisprudence. He was born and died in the village of Bashbīsh in the region of Al-Mahalla in the Nile delta of Egypt. He studied Islamic jurisprudence in Cairo and taught at the Cairo-based Al-Azhar Mosque, long considered the foremost institution in the Islamic world for the study of Sunni theology. Al-Tuhfa al-Saniyya bi Ajwibat al-Masaa'il al-Mardhiyya (The luminous treasure with acceptable answers to matters of faith) is a collection of writings on a variety of issues pertaining to the personal practice of Islam, together with the answers to those questions. The work begins by spelling out all the questions, and then proceeds to respond to the issues one by one, citing the Qurʼan and the hadith (Muhammad's traditions) to support the answers. Some of the matters addressed include the question of what was Allah's first-ever creation; whether Muhammad's prophecy and message were one or two things; whether Muhammad's traditions were his own or rather a Divine Revelation; and a host of questions about the angels, the day of judgment, the afterlife, and other matters. It is stated in the introduction that the work was commissioned by the Ottoman ruler of Egypt at the time, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Pasha al-Tuwaishī (reigned 1650--52).

Names

  • Bashbīshī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Aḥmad, 1631--1685 Author.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1600.

Headings

  • -  Egypt
  • -  1600
  • -  Islam -- Doctrines
  • -  Islamic education

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource at: King Abdulaziz University Library.
  • -  Content in Arabic.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021667281

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Chicago citation style:

Bashbīshī, Aḥmad Ibn ʻAbd Al-Laṭīf Ibn Aḥmad, 1631. The Luminous Treasure with Acceptable Answers to Matters of Faith. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 1600] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667281/.

APA citation style:

Bashbīshī, A. I. ʻ. A. I. A. (1600) The Luminous Treasure with Acceptable Answers to Matters of Faith. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667281/.

MLA citation style:

Bashbīshī, Aḥmad Ibn ʻAbd Al-Laṭīf Ibn Aḥmad, 1631. The Luminous Treasure with Acceptable Answers to Matters of Faith. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 1600] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021667281/>.