Daiber I Ms. 265

45 folios; 16×20,5 cm; 16 lines; naskhi. Copied 1188/1774.

IIIF Collection

Contents

1. [1]

   Cover and Preliminary leaves.

2. [2] [1613] fol. 1r - 45v

   Bidayat al-Hidaya بداية الهداية

   Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali أبو حامد الغزالي Bidayat al-Hidaya بداية الهداية . This introduction to practical piety by the famous theologian al-Ghazzali (died 505/1111) is incomplete at the beginning. As a comparison with ms. Berlin 3263 shows, approximately one folio is missing. - Cf. GAL I 422 nr. 26 and S I 749 nr. 26; MAURICE BOUYGES, Essai de chronologic des oeuvres de Al-Ghazali (Algazel), Beyrouth 1959, p.47f.