For Sale to the Highest Bidder: A Precious Shiʿi Manuscript from the Early Eleventh Century

Schmidtke, Sabine

dc.contributor.author	Schmidtke, Sabine
dc.date.accessioned	2019-11-30T15:47:48Z
dc.date.available	2019-11-30T15:47:48Z
dc.date.issued	2019
dc.identifier.citation	Sabine Schmidtke, For Sale to the Highest Bidder: A Precious Shiʿi Manuscript from the Early Eleventh Century. "School of Historical Studies Occasional Paper Series" no. 2 (December 1, 2019)	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12111/7876
dc.description.abstract	The prominent Twelver Shiʿi scholar and poet, Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn "al-Sharīf al-Raḍī" (d. 406 AH/1015 CE), author of a Qurʾān commentary in ten volumes, Ḥaqāʾiq al-taʾwīl fī mutashābih al-tanzīl, which has only partly been preserved, and compiler of the renowned anthology of testimonials, opinions, and sayings attributed to Imām ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib (d. 40 AH/661 CE), Nahj al-balāgha, also composed a comprehensive, and largely unprecedented book on the metaphors in the Qurʾān, Talkhīṣ al-bayān ʿan majāzāt al-Qurʾān. A remarkable manuscript containing volume two of the work is currently offfered for sale by the UK auctioneer Dreweatts ...	en_US
dc.language.iso	de	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	"School of Historical Studies Occasional Paper Series";2
dc.subject	al-Sharif al-Radi	en_US
dc.subject	Talkhis al-bayan 'an majazat al-Qur'an	en_US
dc.title	For Sale to the Highest Bidder: A Precious Shiʿi Manuscript from the Early Eleventh Century	en_US
dc.type	Working Paper	en_US
dc.identifier.orcid	0000-0002-6181-5065