Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

ms. 47979 (SOAS Library, School of Oriental and African Studies)

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Contents

Summary of Contents: 3 works by Ghazzī, Najm al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1570-1651 on the subjects of Shafiites and Biographical dictionaries
1.

Parts 1 and 2 of a biographical dictionary of Shafi'i theologians who lived at the end of the 16th beginning of the 17th centuries. Copied from a manuscript in the Public Library in Damascus

Incipit: الحمد لله الذي جعل العلماء نجوما يهتدى بهم في ظلمات البر والبحر كما يهتدى بنجوم السماء وكواكبها اما بعد فيقول نجم الدين محمد ... الغزي العامري ... القرشي الشافعي ... ان الله تعالى جعل في كل قرن ... سابقين من اهل الامة الى وارد مناهل بره
Colophon: تمت الطبقة الثانية...وذلک نهار الثلثا فی غرة ربيع الثاني سنه الف وثلاثمایه وسبعة وعشرین...بقلم محمد صادق ابن امین المالح

Language(s): Arabic

References

2.

Part 3 of a biographical dictionary of Shafi'i theologians who lived at the end of the 16th beginning of the 17th centuries. Copied from a manuscript in the Public Library in Damascus. Bound with the volume are are letters and postcards from L. Cheikho to A.G. Ellis

Incipit: المحمديون محمد بن محمد بن محمد بن عبد الله بن بدر بن عثمان بن جابر
Colophon: بقلم محمد صادق ابن امین المالح...وكان الفراغ من كتابه يوم الخميس في غرة جماى الاول سنه الف وثلاثمایه وخمس وعشرین

Language(s): Arabic

References

3.

Biographical dictionary of Shafi'i theologians who lived at the end of the 16th beginning of the 17th centuries. Copied from a manuscript in the Public Library in Damascus

Incipit: الحمد لله الباقي بعد فنا خلقه...اما بعد فهذا ذيل على كتابي المسمى بالكواكب السائرة بمناقب اعيان الماءية العاشرة
Colophon: وقد وافق فراغ من كتابة هذا الذيل المبارك يوم الخميس الواقع في عشرين جماد الثاني سنة الف وثلاثماية وسبع وعشرين بقلم محمد صادق ابن امین المالح

Language(s): Arabic

References

Physical Description

Form: codex
703 f. 249 f. 282 f.
Dimensions (leaf): 24.5 × 17.5 cm.
Dimensions (written): 17 × 10.5 cm.

Layout

Hand(s)

Neat modern naskhi hand

History

Origin: 1327 AH; 1909 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

Gregorian.

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".

Availability

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card for admissions procedures contact SOAS Archives and Special Collections Admissions. Contact docenquiry@soas.ac.uk for further information on the availability of this manuscript. Microfiche copy available for purchase from : Brill - IDC Publishers.

Funding of Cataloguing

JISC


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