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ABU HAMID MUHAMMAD BIN MUHAMMAD AL-GHAZALI (D. 1111 AD): AL-MUSTASFA FI 'ILM AL-USUL

ANDALUSIA, SPAIN OR NORTH AFRICA, CIRCA 13TH CENTURY

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ABU HAMID MUHAMMAD BIN MUHAMMAD AL-GHAZALI (D. 1111 AD): AL-MUSTASFA FI 'ILM AL-USUL
ANDALUSIA, SPAIN OR NORTH AFRICA, CIRCA 13TH CENTURY
Al-Ghazali's work on legal argumentation and principles, Arabic manuscript on paper, 91ff. plus 97ff. plus two modern fly-leaves, each folio with 23ll. of sepia maghribi script, titles in larger script, with occasional marginal notes, first two folios (preface) now lacking, incomplete at end, in tooled brown morocco binding
Folio 9 ¼ x 7in. (23.5 x 17.8cm.)

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Another copy dated to the 12th century AD is in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin (see A.J. Arberry, A Handlist of the Arabic Manuscripts, volume IV, Dublin, 1959, p. 46, no. 3879). See Brockelmann, GAL, i. 424, Suppl. i. 754.

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