Qiṣṣat futūḥ Ifrīqīyah. manuscript. Al-Sifr 1
قصة فتوح إفريقية. مخطوطة. السفر 1

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Title
Qiṣṣat futūḥ Ifrīqīyah. manuscript. Al-Sifr 1
قصة فتوح إفريقية. مخطوطة. السفر 1
Alternative Title
Futūḥ Ifrīqīyah
فتوح إفريقية
Published / Created
1672.
Publication Place
Place not identified
Abstract

An anonymous treatise on the Arab conquest of North Africa under the leadership of ʻUqbah ibn ʻĀmir (died 678), a companion of the Prophet Muḥammad who became the governor of Egypt and died there. The present manuscript is the first book (al-sifr al-awwal) of the original work, dealing with the conquest from al-Mahdīyah to Sāṭīf (localities in North Africa). Copied by Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm of Banū Ṣāliḥ on Wednesday, 1 Shaʻbān, 1083 Hijrī (22 November, 1672). Place of copying not mentioned

Description
In Arabic.
Title from folio 1a.
Romanization supplied by cataloger.
Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-ālihi. Qiṣṣat futūḥ Ifrīqīyah. Bi-ʻawn Allāh wa-barakat Rasūl Allāh ṣallá Allāh ʻlayhi wa-sallam. Qāl fa-kharaja ilayhā ʻUqbah ibn ʻĀmir, raḍiya Allāh ʻanh, yakūnu amīr al-jaysh, wa-kharrajahu Mawlānā ʻUthmān ibn ʻAffān, raḍiya Allāh ʻanh, wa-huwa amīr al-Madīnah [madīnat] al-Nabī, ṣallá Allāh ʻlayhi wa-sallam, wa-yakūnu ʻAlī, raḍiya Allāh ʻanh, wazīrahu. Wa-lam yuqtal aḥad baʻda mawt al-Nabī, ṣallá Allāh ʻlayhi wa-sallam. Fa-kharaja bi-sittīn alf fāris min bilād al-ʻArab ..."
Secundo folio: miʼat alf fāris.
14 x 18.5 cm; written surface: 11 x 14 cm; 17 lines per page.
Binding: In modern brown cloth binding.
In fair Maghribī script, in brown ink on white paper; headings, keywords and markings in red; the first ten leaves are in a different hand and seem to have replaced the original; catchwords. The leaves are affected by dampness, but the text is legible, some are repaired without loss of text.
Text folio 1a-155b.
On folios 1a an advice on generosity, written in light blue ink, bearing the name and signature of al-Sayyid al-Ṭūfī al-Mālikī, Mudīr ʻĀmm Maʻhad al-Futūḥ al-Malakī, starts with: "Kun karīman kay tanāla bi-qurbinā nūran wa-ʻilman ..."
On folio 10b an invocation in a different hand.
Colophon: "Wa-hādhā muqtaḍá al-sifr al-awwal min al-Mahdīyah wa-ilá Sāṭīf ... Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh ʻalá al-tamām wa-al-ikmāl ʻalá yad ... Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm min Banī Ṣāliḥ ... Wa-kāana al-farāgh minhu ʻashīyah yawm al-Arbaʻ awwal shahr Shaʻbān ʻām thalāth wa-thamānīn wa-alf ..."
Translation of the colophon: "This is the end of the first book dealing with [the conquest] from al-Mahdīyah to Sāṭīf ... Praise be to God on completing its copying by ... Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhim of Banī Ṣāliḥ ... The copying was completed on Wednesday evening, the beginning of Shaʻbān, 1083 [22 November, 1672] ..."
Provenance
Purchased from Worldwide Antiquarian on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2005.
Extent
1 volume (155 leaves) ; 20 cm
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
Arabic

Collection Information

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
Arabic MSS suppl. 598

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic 17th century
Arabic manuscripts
Resource Type
text
Subject (Geographic)
Africa, North
Subject (Topic)
Islam
History
Subjects
Islam > Africa, North > History > Early works to 1800
Africa, North > History > 647-1517 > Early works to 1800
17th century
Arabic manuscripts

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Citation
Qiṣṣat futūḥ Ifrīqīyah. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Identifiers

Orbis Record
13272027
Object ID (OID)
31920968

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