MS. Pococke 361 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Contents

Summary of Contents: 4 works by 4 authors on the subjects of Religious disputations, Polemics, Islamic architecture, Dhimmis, and Arabic poetry
1. ff. 5r-19r
Author: Dīrīnī, ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz, 1215-ca. 1295
Title: Irshād al-ḥayārá fī al-radd ʻalá al-Naṣārá
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 452
[UAM. 97 (1)]
2. ff. 20r-61v
Author: Maqrīzī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, 1364-1442
Title: al-Mawāʻiẓ wa-al-iʻtibār fī dhikr al-khiṭaṭ wa-al-āthār

An extract on the history of Damietta

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 39
[UAM. 97 (2)]
3. ff. 62v-104r
Author: Ibn al-Naqqāsh, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, 1320-1362 الدكالي، محمد بن علي، 720-763 هـ
Title: Kitāb fī bayān hal tajūz an ahl al-dhimmah yakūnū umanāʼ ka-al-kitābah wa-al-jibāyah am lā

Corresponding to Belinʼs trans. in J. Asiat. iv. ser. tom. 18, 19 (1851, 52) as follows: ff. 62v-101v = t. 18, pp. 417-516; 101v-104r = t. 19, pp. 97-103.

*Not ed. and trans., as Brock.

Note by A. F. L. B. in letter to M. Perlmann, New York, 8. xi. 51

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 83
[UAM. 97 (3), with corrig. Nicoll p. 567]
4. ff. 104r-114r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Naṣīḥah malīḥah

A poem on the superiority of the Islamic faith

Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Poetry
[UAM. 97 (4)]

Physical Description

Form: codex
15 ff. 42 ff. 43 ff. 11 ff.

History

Origin: n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d.

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Edward Pococke, d. 1691.

Purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1692.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team.

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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