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Risālah fī mulk al-‘arab wa-kamīyatihi رسالة في ملك العرب وكميته Kindī كندي [‎178r] (6/7)

The record is made up of Ff. 175v-178v. It was created in 639. It was written in Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: Oriental Manuscripts.

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Astrological treatise on Arab hegemony and its duration by the philosopher Ya‘qūb ibn Isḥāq al-Kindī (يعقوب بن إسحق الكندي; d. ca 873).

The colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 178r, lines 3-4, transcribed below) states that the text was copied from an exemplar dated mid-Rabī‘ I 531/December 1136.

Appended to the text are philosophical definitions that the scribe claims to have found in his exemplar (f. 178r-178v). There are followed (f. 178v) by a few lines containing a summarised note on the creation of the world (دليل موجز على حدث العالم) attributed to Abū al-Ḥasan ‘Alī Ibn Riḍwān (أبو الحسن علي ابن رضوان; d. ca 1061).

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Begins (f. 175v, lines 6-8):

أعانك الله على قبول الحكمة والهمك استشعار الفلسفة وسهل لك سبيلها وسلس

لك طرقها ولا أراك مكروهًا برحمته سألت أكرمك الله أن إذ كذلك

الكلام الذي سمعتني أخبر به من كتاب الله عز وجل في علم كمية ملك العرب ...

Ends (f. 177v, line 26-178r, line 1):

... وبالعقرب بين العرب بعضهم لبعض وبالقوس بين الترك وبالجدي

بين الجيشة والزنج والهند وبالدلو بين السواد والكوفة والجبال وبالحوت

بين المصريين وبين الحزر والنجاد والعرب

Colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 178r, lines 2-4):

تمت الرسالة بحمد الله وعونه وتوفيقه

نقلته من نسخة تأريخ تسطيرها النصف

من ربيع الأول سنة إحدى وثلثين وخمسمائة

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Risālah fī mulk al-‘arab wa-kamīyatihi رسالة في ملك العرب وكميته Kindī كندي [‎178r] (6/7), British Library: Oriental Manuscripts, Add MS 7473, ff 175v-178v, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023643885.0x0000a5> [accessed 19 April 2024]

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