Glaser 52

al-Maǧmūʿ fī '-Muḥīṭ bi-t-Taklīf

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Title: Glaser 52
Creator: al-Maǧmūʿ fī '-Muḥīṭ bi-t-Taklīf
Location: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Source URL: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - PK
Rights: © Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - PK. Commercial use of the digitized images requires permission of the foundation's Bildagentur für Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte (bpk). User fees may apply.
Classmark: Glaser 52
Catalogue number: Ahlwardt 5149
Type: single manuscript
Title: al-Maǧmūʿ fī '-Muḥīṭ bi-t-Taklīf المجموع في المحيط بالتكليف‎
Subject matter: philosophy
Number of folios: 221
Description: The text at hand begins on f.5r, l.3. First part of a compendium from a metaphysical work of ʿAbd al-Jabbār b. Aḥmad (d. 415/1024), entitled المحيط بالتكليف, by al-Ḥasan b. Aḥmad b. Mattawayhi Abū Muḥammad (lived sometime between 415/1024 and 670/1271). The latter is divided into 9 اصل (f.1v, 23, 48, 75, 100, 124, 146, 173, 198 and is composed of many unnumbered chapters. It addresses the nature of God and discusses in the first main chapter التوحيد in five اصل.‎
Date: 671/1273
Author: Ibn-Mattawaih بن متويه‎

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