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There is little doubt that sometimes the best way to make sense of the transmission of texts, debates and commentaries is to dive deeply into codices of collected texts (majmūʿa-s) #manuscripts #Islamic #intellectual_history 1/
One good example is the majmūʿa MS Majlis-e Shūrā (Tehran) 5284 which includes ten texts mostly copied by Sulṭān Muḥammad b. ʿAlī Shāh Iṣfahānī in 962/1555 in Bharuch in West India 2/
The collection begins with some works of Jalāl al-Dīn Davānī (d. 1502) - usually called Muḥammad b. Asʿad al-Ṣiddīqī in the incipits - reflecting on Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (d. 1274) works on the #intellect and #nafs_al_amr and on the logical notion of #conception_taṣawwur 3/
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New publication by #Miras_e_maktub of an 8/14th C #Persian translation of a classic #ethics text from the 5/11th century 1/ Image
Al-Dhari’a ila makarim al-shari’a of Raghib Isfahani (d. 502/1108) on #moralpsychology and #virtue_ethics from the #Aristotelian tradition remains rather neglected 2/
This #Persian translation was produced at the court of #ShahShuja (d. 764/1364) ruler of #Shiraz 3/
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