Book/Printed Material A Treatise on the Division of Theoretical Scholarship.
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Title
- A Treatise on the Division of Theoretical Scholarship.
Summary
- This four-page essay on the difference between pre-theoretical belief and theoretical imagination was written by the prominent Shafi'i theologian Muhammad al-Amidi (died 1233 [631 AH]). The manuscript copy shown here was made in the early 19th century by an unknown scribe. 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 282 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
- - Imagination
- - Islamic manuscripts
- - Memory of the World
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
- 2021667161
Online Format
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