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Book/Printed Material A Treatise on Book Titles.

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Title

  • A Treatise on Book Titles.

Summary

  • This short work by the prominent Shafi'i theologian Muhammad al-Amidi (died 1233 [631 AH]) continues an earlier discussion by the same author about original existence and mental existence. In this work, al-Amidi considers the elements of place and time and discusses their relationship to existence. The manuscript copy shown here is by an unknown scribe, and dates from the early 19th century. It is from the Bašagić Collection of Islamic Manuscripts in the University Library of Bratislava, Slovakia, which was inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World register in 1997. Safvet beg Bašagić (1870--1934) was a Bosnian scholar, poet, journalist, and museum director who assembled a collection of 284 manuscript volumes and 365 print volumes that together reflect the development of Islamic civilization from its inception to the early 20th century. The manuscript is item 283 in Jozef Blaškovič, Arabské, turecké a perzské rukopisy Univerzitnej knižnice v Bratislave (Arab, Turkish, and Persian manuscripts in the University Library, Bratislava).

Names

  • Al-Amidi, Muhammad, ?-1233 Author.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1805.

Headings

  • -  1150 to 1233
  • -  Islamic manuscripts
  • -  Memory of the World
  • -  Ontology

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 53 folios ; 22 x 16 centimeters ; black and red ink ; semileather hardcover.
  • -  Original resource at: University Library in Bratislava.
  • -  Content in Arabic.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • Bašagic's Collection of Islamic Manuscripts

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021667159

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Al-Amidi, Muhammad, ?-1233 Author. A Treatise on Book Titles. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 1805] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667159/.

APA citation style:

Al-Amidi, M. (1805) A Treatise on Book Titles. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667159/.

MLA citation style:

Al-Amidi, Muhammad, ?-1233 Author. A Treatise on Book Titles. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 1805] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021667159/>.