Jawī Zādah, Muḥammad ibn Ilyās, -1547 or 1548 جوي زادة، محمد بن إلياس، ت. 1547 أو 8.
Call Number:
Arabic MSS suppl. 715
Image Count:
39
Abstract:
Manuscript on Islamic law dealing with how to establish evidence when two or more claiments are asking for shares in someone's inheritance by Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ilyās Jawī Zādah (d. 1547 or 8), a prolific Ḥanafī scholar, muftī and qāḍī of Turkish origin. Copied by Muḥammad Rashīd ibn Fayḍ Allāh, probably in the 17th century, in Turkey
Alternative Title:
Mīzān al-muddaʻīn fī iqāmat al-bayyinatayn, Kitāb Mīzān al-muddaʻīyīn, Mīzān al-muddaʻīyīn, ميزان المدعين في إقامة البينتين, كتاب ميزان المدعيين, and ميزان المدعيين
Description:
In Arabic., Incipit: "... Iʻlam anna al-rajulayn idhā iddaʻayā ʻaynan wa-barhanā fa-lā yakhlū immā an iddaʻá kilāhumā mulkan muṭlaqan aw iddaʻá kilāhumā mulkan bi-sabab wāḥid bi-an iddaʻayā irthan aw shirāʼan min ithnayn aw min wāḥd aw iddaʻá aḥaduhumā mulkan muṭlaqan wa-al-ākhar natājan aw iddaʻá kilāhumā natājan aw iddaʻá kilāhumā mulkan bi-sababayn mukhtalifayn min wāḥid aw bi-sababayn mukhtalifīn min ithnayn ...", 15.5 x 21.5 cm; written surface: 7.5 x 15 cm, different lines per page., Modern binding., In clear unified naskhī script; in black ink, on yellowish paper; with headings, keywords and markings in red; catchwords., Preceded by an introduction in Ottoman Turkish (folio 1b-3a) and a table of contents (folios 3b-6b)., Folios 1a and 28b-34b contain advices, proverbs, prayers, poems, invocations, etc. in Arabic, Ottoman Turkish and Persian., Several dates are found in the manuscript; the earliest are: [1]101 H [1689 or 1690] (folio 29a) and [11]57 H [1744 or 1755] (folio 31 b)., Ample notes on the margins., and Colophon: "Tamma al-kalām bi-ʻawn Allāh al-Malik al-ʻAllām min taḥrīrāt al-fāḍil zubdat al-anām al-marḥūm al-maʻrūf bi-Jawīʹzādah bayna al-khawāṣṣ wa-al-ʻawām ... Tammat hādhihi al-risālah al-sharīfah ʻan al-ḥaqīr al-faqīr ilá Allāh al-qadīr Muḥammad Rashīd ibn Fayḍ Allāh ..."
Subject (Name):
Jawī Zādah, Muḥammad ibn Ilyās, -1547 or 1548.
Subject (Topic):
Evidence (Islamic law), Hanafites, Inheritance and succession (Islamic law), and Islamic law
Marghīnānī, ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr, -1196 or 1197 مرغيناني، علي بن أبي بكر، -1196 or 1197
Published / Created:
1523 or 1524.
Call Number:
Hartford Seminary Arabic MSS 603
Image Count:
560
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
"Mukhtārāt al-nawāzil" (Selected new issues), a treatise on Islamic law according to the Ḥanafī tradition, by Burhān al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr al-Farghānī al-Marghīnānī, a prominent and prolific Ḥanafī scholar, whose "nisbah" (affiliation) is to Marghīnān, a locality in the district of Farghānah (Marghilon, Farghona, Uzbekistan), being a collection of selected "nawāzil" (new issues which require fatwás (advisory or legal opinions), from a "faqīh" (Islamic law scholar)). Copied in the year 930 of the Hijrah (1523 or 1524), by Muḥammad ibn Mawlānā ʻAbd Allāh ibn Mawlānā Qāsim. Place of copying not mentioned
Description:
In Arabic., Title from reference sources., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit (folio 4b): "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. "al-Ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn, wa-al-ʻāqibah lil-muttaqīn, wa-al-ṣalāh ʻalá Rasūlihi al-Muṣṭafá Muḥammad wa-ālihi al-ṭayyibīn al-ṭāhirīn ajmaʻīn. Kitāb al-Ṭahārāt. al-Ṭahārah fī al-lughah ʻibārah ʻan al-naẓāfah, wa-fī al-Sharīʻah, ʻibārah ʻan ghasl aʻḍāʼ makhṣūṣah bi-ṣifah makhṣūṣah, wa-hiya anwāʻ: Ṭahārat al-ṣughrá wa-Ṭahārat al-kubrá, wa-hiya ṭahārah ʻan al-ḥadath, wa-ṭahārat al-thawb wa-al-badan, wa-hiya ṭahārah ʻan al-khabath. Bāb mā yajūzu bi-hi al-wuḍūʼ, wa-mā lā yajūz. Faṣl fī al-miyāh ...", Secundo folio: Yūsuf, annahu lam yujawwiz fī al-badan., 14.3 x 18.5 cm; written surface: 9 x 12 cm; 14lines per page., Binding: Cover missing; dark brown leather on spine., In fair naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; headings in red and large black script; some notes on the margins; catchwords., On folio 1a-3b: Miscellaneous quotations on Islamic law., At the head of folio 4a: "Hādhā kitāb Mukhtārāt nawāzil, li-ṣāḥib al-Hidāyah.", At the head of folio 5a: An endowment statement: "Waqf Muṣṭafá ibn Aḥmad al-Chakmajlī.", Text ends abruptly on folio 276b, as follows: "... rawá al-Ḍaḥḥāk ʻan Ibn ʻAbbās, rḍ, annahu qāl: Yakūnu baʻd al-Nabī nūr yukanná Abū Ḥ, yaḥya dīn Allāh wa-Sunnat Rasūl Allāh ʻalá yadih. Wa-ʻan Anas, qāl, qāla Rasūl Allāh, ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallam: Yakūnu fī ākhir al-zamān rajul yukanná bi-Abī Ḥanīfah, yaḥyá dīn Allāh taʻālá wa-Sunnatī ʻalá yadih. Thumma shurrifa bi-al-dhikr fī Ḥadīth ākhar: Muliʼa qalbuhu ʻilman wa-ḥikmah ...", Folio 277 is bound upside-down and contains miscellaneous quotations., At the head of folio 277a: "ʻAdad masāʼil hādhā al-kitāb alf wa-khamsmiʼat wa-ithnān wa-thalāthūn, wa-dhakar al-khilāf fī miʼah wa-sabʻīn, wa-lam yadhkur al-qiyās illā fī [...?].", Colophon (at the lower right margin of folio 276b): "Tammat al-kitāb, bi-ʻawn al-Malik al-Wahhāb, ʻalá yad ʻAbd [al-ʻabd] al-ḍaʻīf, al-muḥtāj, al-faqīr ilá Allāh al-Ghanī, Muḥammad ibn Mawlānā ʻAbd Allāh ibn Mawlānā Qāsim, ghafara Allāh la-hu wa-li-wālidayhi, wa-aḥsana ilayhimā wa-ilayhi. Tārīkhuhu sanat thalāthīn wa-tisʻimiʼah.", and Translation of the colophon: "The book is completed by the help of the Abundant Giving King, by the hand of the feeble, needy and poor to Gracious God, Muḥammad ibn Mawlānā ʻAbd Allāh ibn Mawlānā Qāsim, may God forgive him and his parents and treat them and him favorably. Dated in the year 930 [of the Hijrah = 1523/1524]."
Subject (Name):
Marghīnānī, ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr, -1196 or 1197.
Wāʻiẓ al-Makkī, ʻAbd al-Raʼūf ibn Yaḥyá, -1556 واعظ المكي، عبد الرؤوف بن يحيى، -1556
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 293
Image Count:
53
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Versification of al-Nuqāyah (concise encyclopedia) of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī. and Followed by 2 leaves of notes
Description:
Available on microfilm, The title, scrawled in a later hand on leaf 217 recto, confused the author with ʻAbd al-Raʼūf al-Munāwī., The author's full name is given in the colophon (explicit)., Kâtip Çelebi (ed. Flügel) misprinted ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz as covering fann al-tafsīr only., Kâtip Çelebi gives the author's surname as al-Zamzamī al-Makkī. Brockelmann, S II, p. 509, lists a Naẓm ʻilm al-tafsīr under ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn ʻAlī al-Zamzamī, d. 1568, possibly the same work. (But Hitti, 7, gives his death date as A.H. 963 / A.D. 1556)., Kâtip Çelebi gives the death date as A.H. 963 (A.D. 1555 or 1556)., According to the colophon the author was a pupil of Ibn Ḥajar al-Haythamī (d. 1565?)., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm ... Yaqūlu muḥtāj al-Ghanī al-Ḥāfiẓ ʻAbd al-Raʼūf najl Yaḥyá al-Wāʻiẓ: Aḥmadu man ajāda bi-al-aḥkām ...", Modern (18th century?) Yemenite naskhī, in red and black, sparsely pointed., Islamic binding, in brown, with flap., and No. 3 of 3 titles bound together.
Subject (Name):
Suyūṭī, 1445-1505., Wāʻiẓ al-Makkī, ʻAbd al-Raʼūf ibn Yaḥyá, -1556., Zamzamī, ʻIzz al-Dīn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn ʻAlī, -1568., and Zamzamī, ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Yaḥyá, -1556.
Subject (Topic):
Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Arabic and Islamic learning and scholarship
Aḥmad bin ʻAlī Saʻīd, -1717 أحمد بن علي سعيد، -1717
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 428
Image Count:
652
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Commentary on Manār al-anwār (principles of law) of ʻAbd Allāh al-Nasafī. and Beginning and end missing. Probably with lacunae
Description:
Leaves misbound; the concluding part of the incipit, with the title, appears on leaf 278 recto., Fair modern (18th century?) naskhī., and Islamic binding, in black.
Subject (Name):
Aḥmad bin ʻAlī Saʻīd, -1717. and Nasafī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, -1310.
Manuscript fragment on paper (unidentified watermark) of outline drawings of saints and prophets and 2 scenes from the New Testament, from a pattern book, with script headings
Description:
In Arabic. and Mounted between glass.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Orthodox Eastern Church.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Pattern books
Collection of prayers and invocations for seeking God's protection from the enemies, with many verses from the Qurʼān. Name of the author not mentioned. Copied and illuminated in 1267 Hijrī (1850 or 1851) by the calligrapher al-Sayyid Muḥammad Rāsim, a student of Muḥammad Dhākir nicknamed "Ḥāfiẓ al-Qurʼān" (Memorizer of the Qurʼān). Place of copying not mentioned
Description:
In Arabic., Title supplied by cataloger., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn, al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Īyāka naʻbudu wa-īyāka nastaʻīn. Ihdinā al-ṣirāṭa al-mustaqīm, ṣirāṭa alladhīna anʻamta ʻalayhim, ghayr al-maghḍūbi ʻalayhim wa-lā al-ḍāllīn ...", Secundo folio: nunjī al-muʼminīn., 10 x 16 cm; written surface: 5 x 9 cm; 13 lines per page., Binding: Bound in contemporary blue wrapper with flap; both covers beautifully hand-decorated in gilt., In beautiful naskh script, in black ink on white paper, keywords in red; the opening page is illuminated with a handsome heading in gold, blue, rose, and other colors; there are also four different medallions on the margins in gold, blue and other colors (folios 1b, 5a, 9a, 11a); catchwords; text within gold frame., Text folios 1b-11b., Interspersed in the text is an invocatory refrain, repeated ten times, in red ink: "Aʻdāʼunā lan yaṣilū ilaynā bi-al-nafs wa-lā bi-al-wāsiṭah, lā qudrata lahum ʻalá īṣāl al-sūʼ ilaynā bi-ḥāl min al-aḥwāl" (Our enemies will not be able to reach us, neither in person nor by proxy. They have no power to inflict harm on us under any circumstances)., Colophon: "Katabahu al-mudhnib al-Sayyid Muḥammad Rāsim min talāmīdh Muḥammad Dhākr [al-mulaqqab] bi-Ḥāfiẓ al-Qurʼān, ghufira la-humā, sanat 1267 H.", and Translation of the colophon: "Copied by the guilty al-Sayyid Muḥammad Rāsim, a student of Muḥammad Dhākir [nicknamed] Ḥāfiẓ al-Qurʼān [Memorizer of the Qurʼān], may God forgive both of them, in the year 1267 Hijrī [1850 or 1851]."
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Invocation, Religious aspects, Islam, and Prayer
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
Alternative Title:
Futūḥ Ifrīqīyah and فتوح إفريقية
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 ...", and 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] ..."
ʻUthmānī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, active 1378 عثماني، محمد بن عبد الرحمن، ناشط 1378
Published / Created:
1498.
Call Number:
Arabic MSS suppl. 610
Image Count:
484
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Raḥmat al-ummah fī ikhtilāf al-aimmah "Mercy of the nation in the differences of the scholars." A treatise on the different opinions and interpretations of leading Islamic law scholars pertaining to legal matters, by Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-ʻUthmānī (active 1378), a Shāfiʻī Islamic law scholar, originally from Damascus (Syria) who became the Qāḍī (Chief Judge) of Ṣafad. The author finished writing his treatise on Tuesday, 11 Dhū al-Qaʻdah, 780 Hijrī (9 March, 1379), in Ṣafad (Tsefat, Israel). Copied by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Jafrī (or al-Jaʻbarī ?) al-Hāshimī on Saturday, 12 Ramaḍān, 903 (13 May, 1498) in the city of Salānīk (Selânik, Turkey), from the copy which had been copied in Muḥarram, 855 Hijrī (February/March, 1451) by Jaʻfar ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Jaʻfar ibn Sulaymān al-Sanhūrī al-muqriʼ al-Azʹharī (1407 or 1408-1489), a well-known Egyptian muqriʼ "Qurʼan reciter" and Qurʼanic scholar
In Arabic., Title from folio 2a., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī ajzala iḥsānah wa-anzala Qurʼānah wa-bayyana fīhi qawāʻid dīnih wa-arkānah, thumma jaʻala ilá Nabīyih bayānah, wa-awḍaḥa dhālika li-aṣḥābih fī ḥayātih, thumma tafarraqū baʻda wafātih yabtaghūna faḍlan min Allāh wa-ruḍwānih ...", Secundo folio: ṭarīqah wa-aḥsan namaṭ., 12.5 x 17.5 cm; written surface: 8.5 x 12.5; 15 lines per page., Binding: In dark brown leather binding with flap (in 24 numbered quires), central medallion on both covers., In good naskh script; in black ink, on white paper; headings and markings in red; some notes and corrections on the margins; catchwords. Some parts of the manuscripts are replaced in different hands: folios 1b-7b (written surface: 9 x 15 cm, 21 lines per page, in fair naskh taʻlīq script); folios 53a-54b (written surface: 9.5 x 14.5, 15 lines per page, in fair ruqʻah script)., Pages also numbered in Indian numerals: 1-474., Text folios 1b-236b (pages 1-472)., Includes an elaborate index of contents: Folios 237a-237b (pages 473-474)., On folio 1a: "Hādhā Kitāb Ikhtilāf al-aʼimmah, al-musammá, Raḥmat al-ummah, taʼlīf al-ʻĀlim al-ʻallāmah Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Qurashī al-ʻUthmānī Qāḍī Ṣafad al-Shāfiʻī, taghammadahu Allāh bi-ruḍwānih. Āmīn. Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn. Āmīn.", On the margin of page 472: "... Ṭālaʻa fī hādhā al-kitāb al-mubārak Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Sibāhī bi-Dimashq al-maḥrūsah, ghafara Allāh la-hu wa-li-man daʻá la-hu bi-al-maghfirah. Āmīn. Fī tāsiʻ wa-ʻshrīn shahr al-Ḥijjah sanat arbaʻ wa-ʻishrīn [year not mentioned].", Author's colophon: "Qāla muʼallifuhu, raḥimahu Allāh raḥmatan wāsiʻah wa-nafaʻanā bi-barakatihi wa-ʻilmih, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Qurashī al-ʻUthmānī, Qāḍī Ṣafad al-Shāfiʻī: Faraghtu min taʼlīf hādhā al-kitāb al-mubārak fī laylah yusfiru ṣabāḥuhā ʻan nahār al-Thulāthāʼ, ḥādī ʻashar Dhī al-Qaʻdah al-ḥarām, sanata thamānīn wa-sabʻimiʼah bi-rabḍ Ṣafad, ḥamāhā Allāh taʻālá.", Translation of the author's colophon: "The author (Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Qurashī al-ʻUthmānī, the Chief Judge of Ṣafad), may God have abundant mercy upon him, and may He benefit us by his blessing and knowledge, said: I finished writing this blessed book on Tuesday morning, 11 Dhū al-Qaʻdah, 780 Hijrī [9 March, 1379], in the city of Ṣafad, may God protect it.", Copyist colophon: "Qāla kātibuhu al-ʻabd al-faqīr al-muʻtarif bi-al-dhanb wa-al-taqṣīr, al-rājī ʻafwa rabbihi al-qadīr, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Jafrī [or al-Jaʻbarī (?)] baladan, al-Hāshimī nasaban: Katabtuhu min nuskhah waqaʻat bi-yadī bi-madīnat Salānīk min arḍ al-Rūm, maktūb fīhā: Qāla kātib hādhihi al-nuskhah bi-yadihi al-fāniyah li-nafsih wa-liman shāʼa Allāh min baʻdih, Jaʻfar ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Jaʻfar ibn Sulaymān al-Sanhūrī al-muqrī al-Azʹharī nazīl al-Qāhirah al-maḥrūsah, fī shahr Allāh al-Muḥarram al-ḥarām, sanat khams wa-khamsīn wa-thamānimiʼah. Wa-faraghtu min kitābatihi yawm al-Sabt baʻda al-ẓuhr bi-madīnat Salānīk al-madhkūrah fī thānī ʻashar min shahr Ramaḍān min shuhūr sanat thalāth wa-tisʻmiʼah. Allāhumma ighfir lanā wa-li-wālidaynā wa-li-mashāyikhinā wa-li-jamīʻ al-Muslimīn ajmaʻīn, yā Rabba al-ʻĀlamīn.", and Translation of the copyist colophon: "The copyist ... Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Jafrī [or al-Jaʻbarī (?)] baladan, al-Hāshimī nasaban, said: I copied this copy from a copy I saw in the city of Salānīk ... in which was written: The copyist of this book, Jaʻfar ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Jaʻfar ibn Sulaymān al-Sanhūrī al-muqrī al-Azʹharī, copied it for himself ... in Muḥarram, 855 [February/March, 1451]. The present copy was completed on Saturday afternoon, in the afore mentioned city of Salānīk on 12 Ramaḍān, 903 Hijrī [13 May, 1498] ..."
Subject (Name):
Sanhūrī, Jaʻfar ibn Ibrāhīm, 1407 or 1408-1489. and ʻUthmānī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, active 1378.
Būnī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, -1225 بوني، أحمد بن علي، -1225
Published / Created:
1874.
Call Number:
Arabic MSS suppl. 759
Image Count:
528
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Shams al-maʻārif al-kubrá (Larger Sun of knowledge), by Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī al-Būnī (died 1225), a well-known Ṣufī scholar from the city of Būnah (Bône), now ʻAnnābah (Annaba, Algeria), who died in Cairo. This work is designated "al-kubrá" (the larger) to distinguish it from the author's two other treatises: "al-wusṭá"́ (the middle) and "al-ṣughrá" (the smaller). It is also listed in the text under the title "Shams al-maʻārif wa-laṭāʼif al-ʻawārif" (Sun of knowledge and intricacies of diviners), a treatise on magic, alchemy, astrology, divination, Islamic occultism, the name of God (including 'al-Asmāʼ al-Ḥusná', the 99 beautiful names of God), the magical use of the Arabic Alphabet, and talismans. The present work is a lithographed edition, printed from an original copy from India, in four parts, as follows: al-Juzʼ al-awwal (Part one: Pages 1-132), al-Juzʼ al-thānī (Part two: pages 1-116), al-Juzʼ al-thālith (Part three: pages 1-124), al-Juzʼ al-rābiʻ (Part four: Pages 1-148), followed by an index of contents for the four parts (Pages 1-7). The work was printed on 20 Shawwāl, 1291 of the Hijrah (30 November, 1874). Place and name of the printer not mentioned
Alternative Title:
Shams al-maʻārif wa-laṭāʼif al-ʻawārif and شمس المعارف ولطائف العوارف
Description:
In Arabic., Title from cover., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Shahādat azal, fa-min nūr hādhihi al-shahādah ightarafa al-muṣannifūn ʻilman. Fa-ifham dhālik. Wa-al-tartīb al-abadī fī al-shahādatayn al-muttaṣilatayn bi-al-malāʼikah al-kirām. Wa-awwal al-ʻilm fa-hādhihi shahādat al-abad. Fa-man fahima sirr hātayn al-shahādatayn shāhad al-malakūtayn wa-mā awdaʻāhu bi-sirr al-ittiṣāl bi-al-kashfīyāt ...", Secundo folio: Ammā baʻd, fa-lil-ḥaqq aʻlām., 16.5 x 23.5 cm; written surface: 12 x 20 cm; 31 lines per page., Binding: In green cardboard cover and dark brown paper on the spine., In naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; many illustrations and magic squares; text within double frames; catchwords. At the head of the opening page of each of the four parts is a decorative design., On cover: "Shams al-maʻārif al-kubrá", printed in silver., On page 1 of al-Juzʼ al-awwal: "Shams al-maʻārif al-kubrá wa-laṭāʼif al-ʻawārif, fī arbaʻat ajzāʼ, lil-Quṭb al-Imām Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī al-Būnī, wa-bi-nihāyat al-arbaʻat kutub, [al-kutub] al-ātiyah: 1. Kitāb Mīzān al-ʻadl fī maqāṣid aḥkām al-raml. 2. Kitāb Fawātiḥ al-raghāʼib fī khuṣūṣīyāt awqāt al-kawākib. 3. Kitāb Zahr al-murūj fī dalāʼil al-burūj. 4. Kitāb Laṭāʼif al-ishārah fī khaṣāʼiṣ al-kawākib al-sayyārah." "Maṭbūʻ ʻalá al-nuskhah al-Hindīyah al-aṣlīyah." These four books are not included in this codex and seem to serve as an advertisement for works to follow., al-Juzʼ al-thānī (Part two), starts with: "al-Faṣl al-khāmis ʻashar. Fī al-shurūṭ al-lāzimah li-baʻḍ dūna baʻḍ fī al-bidāyāt wa-al-nihāyāt.", al-Juzʼ al-thālith (Part three), starts, after al-Basmalah, with: "al-Faṣl al-ḥādī wa-al-ʻishrūn. Fī Asmāʼ Allāh al-Ḥusná, wa-anmāṭihā, wa-mā li-kull namaṭ min al-daʻawāt.", al-Juzʼ al-rābiʻ (Part four), starts, after al-Basmalah, with: "al-Faṣl al-thāmin wa-al-thalāthūn. Fī istikhdāmāt al-ḥurūf wa-khalawātihā.", Colophon: "Tamma Kitāb Shams al-maʻārif al-kubrá lil-Imām al-Būnī fī ʻishrīn min Shawwāl, sanat 1291 Hijrīyah. Wa-lammā kādat shams ṭabʻihā tabzughu lil-ṭulūʻ arrakhahā baʻḍ al-madmīyīn [al-mādiḥīn] bi-qawlihi, shiʻr [in Ḥisāb al-jummal (Alphabetical reckoninig)]: ... Wa-fīhā ará al-tārīkh jāda bi-qawlihi // yufīdu al-amānī ṭabʻu Shams al-maʻārif. Sanat 1291.", and Translation of the colophon: "The book 'Shams al-maʻārif al-kubrá' of al-Imām al-Būnī was completed on 20 Shawwal, 1291 of the Hijrah [30 November, 1874]. When the sun of its printing started to rise, someone praised it and mentioned the date of printing, in verse [using Ḥisāb al-jummal "Alphabetical reckoning"], saying: ... In it I see the date, saying generously: The printing of Shams al-maʻarif satisfies the wishes. The year 1291."
Subject (Name):
Būnī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, -1225.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Arabic alphabet, Astrology, Divination, God (Islam), Name, Islamic magic, Islamic occultism, Lithographed books, Magic, and Talismans