Book/Printed Material Free Will and Acts of Faith.
About this Item
Title
- Free Will and Acts of Faith.
Summary
- This manuscript is a philosophical-religious work with citations from the Qurʼan. The text of this copy dating from the early 19th century is written in a very small and poor quality Nasta'liq script with black ink on thin yellowish paper. This style of Perso-Arabic script was the predominant style of Persian calligraphy in the 14th and 15th centuries and was very popular with Ottoman calligraphers. The manuscript is bound with ten other works dealing with grammar, rhetoric, and other subjects. It is from the Bašagić Collection of Islamic Manuscripts in the University Library of Bratislava, Slovakia, which was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List 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, which reflect the development of Islamic civilization from its inception to the early 20th century. The manuscript is item 412 in Jozef Blaškovič, Arabské, turecké a perzské rukopisy Univerzitnej knižnice v Bratislave (Arab, Turkish, and Persian manuscripts in the University Library, Bratislava). The manuscripts bound with this one are items 290, 370, 318, 365, 280, 281, 388, 289, and 282.
Names
- el-Akkirmānī, Muhammad, 17th to 19th century Creator.
Created / Published
- [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1805.
Headings
- - Turkey
- - 1805
- - 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 Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928).
- - 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
- 2021667162
Online Format
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