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ARABIC MANUSCRIPTS -- AL-GHAZZÂLÎ (d. 1111), Ihyâ' 'ulum al-dîn. A fragment of 88 large lvs. in splendid Andalusian calligraphy of the Almohad era (12th or early 13th century). Loose lvs. within a paper wrapper in a portfolio. (Margins dam./gone in places (with loss of text), some worming and staining throughout). EUR 3.000 EUR 4.400 ¶ Containing approximately one quarter of the whole work (mainly from the second quarter or "rub'"). The script as well as the colours used for the headings of chapters and paragraphs, as also as for rubrics, show close relationship to a manuscript of Ibn Tûmart's Kitâb, dated 579/1183, preserved in the National Library of France, in Paris (Ar. 1451). A page from that manuscript was reproduced by F. Deroche (and others), Manuel de codicologie des manuscrits en écriture arabe, Paris 2000, p. 130. Al-Ghazzalî's Ihyâ' was banned and burnt during the Almoravid era (first half of the 6th/12th century), but rehabilitated and honoured by the Almohad dynasty. This manuscript is a rare witness of the renewed prestige Al-Ghazzâlî's work had acquired in Al-Andalus and the Maghrib in Almohad times. Documents concerning the banning and destruiction of Al-Ghazzâlî's Ihyâ''ulûm al-dîn in Al-Andalus and North Africa are included in the book by Al-Maghrâwî, Al-Asbâb al-haqîqiyya li-harq ihyâ' 'ulûm al-dîn min qibali Amîr al-Mu'minîn Ibn Tâshufîn. Marrâkush, 2004.
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