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Summary of Contents: 7 works by 5 authors on the subjects of Islamic law, Islam, Devotional poetry, and Islamic poetry
1.
Author: Shāfiʻī, Muḥammad ibn Idrīs, 767 or 8-820 بدري، حسن بن ادريس
Title: al-Qaṣīdah lil-Shāfiʻī
Title: القصيدة للشافعي
Incipit: أأنعمُ عيشاً بعدما حل عارضي, طلائعُ
Language(s): Arabic
2.
Author: Ibn Ḥajar al-Haythamī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, ca. 1503-ca. 1566
Title: Fatāwá
Title: فتاوى

Fetwas of Ibn Hajar

Language(s): Arabic

References

view the printed catalogue Gacek no.75
3.
Author: Ibn Ḥajar al-Haythamī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, ca. 1503-ca. 1566
Title: Jawāhir al-farāʼiḍ
Title: جواهر الفرايض
Incipit: اعلم اذا مات الانسان اولايبدا في التركة
Colophon: تمت الكتاب ...علی ید عيسى في يوم الابعاء في شهر ذي الحجة سنه هزار صد چهل و هفت

Language(s): Arabic

References

view the printed catalogue Gacek no.75
4.
Author: Anonymous
Title: Passages from an unidentified history of early Islam
Incipit: باب قتل عثمان

Language(s): Arabic

References

view the printed catalogue Gacek no.
5.
Author: ʻAṭṭār, Farīd al-Dīn, d. ca. 1230
Title: Munājāt
Title: مناجات

A Persian religious poem

Incipit: نستعین الله فی کل الامور زاد فی قلبی بذکر والسرور
Language(s): Persian
6.
Author: Shādhilī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh, ca. 1196-1258
Title: Ḥizb al-baḥr
Title: حزب البحر
Incipit: اللهم انت ربى وعلمك حسين فنعم الرب ربى ... ونعم الحسب حسبى تنصر من تشاء وانت العزيز الرحيم
Language(s): Arabic

References

view the printed catalogue Gacek no.103
7.
Author: Ibn Ḥajar al-Haythamī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, ca. 1503-ca. 1566
Title: Writings on various topics mostly by Ibn Hajar
Language(s): Arabic

References

view the printed catalogue Gacek no.75

Physical Description

Form: codex
1a-2a f. 2a-21b f. 22a-26b f. 26b-35a f. 35a-36a f. 36b-38a. 38b-96b f.
Dimensions (leaf): 22 × 12.5 cm.
Dimensions (written): 17.5

Layout

Hand(s)

Mostly Ottoman naskhi hand

History

Origin: 1147 AH; 1735 CE

Record Sources

"Manuscript description based on Adam Gacek : Catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1981".

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

Subjects

  • Islamic law
  • Islam--Prayers and devotions
  • Devotional poetry, Arabic
  • Islamic poetry, Persian
  • Islam--History

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