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Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Kitāb sirāj al-ḥukm al-ʿuẓāmīyah by Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad al-Zarrūq
Author: ‎ Zarrūq, Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad,‏ ‎d. -1493‏ Burnusī, Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad أحمد بن أحمد الزروق
Title: Kitāb sirāj al-ḥukm al-ʿuẓāmīyah
Title: كتاب سراج الحكم العظامية

'The Lamp of the Important Ordinances' - a work on Islamic theology.

Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه تقه يقول العبد المعترف بذنبه الراجي بكل حال فضل ربه الشيخ الفقيه العارف المحقق فريد عصره و نسبح وحده أحمد بن أحمد بن محمد بن عيسى البرنوسي الفاسي...إلخ
Explicit: وحسبنا ونعم الوكيل ولا حول ولا قوة إلا بالله العلي العظيم
Language(s): Arabic

References

no. 409
Palmer, pp. 2-3

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Coarse unglazed paper
Extent: 320 ff.

Condition

Discoloured by age

Hand(s)

Badly written in African characters.

History

Origin: Undated

Record Sources

"Manuscript description based on "E. G. Browne: A supplementary hand-list of the Muhammadan manuscripts, including all those written in the Arabic character, preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge. Cambridge, 1922", and "E.H. Palmer A Descriptive Catalogue of the Arabic, Persian and Turkish Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, London 1870".

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Trinity College Cambridge

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