Commentary, in the longer version, on Talkhis al-Miftah (manual of rhetoric, abridged from the Miftah al-'ulum of al-Sakkaki) of Muhammad Khatib Dimashq.
Description:
Only partial work scanned. and Title supplied by a modern hand inside front cover.
Subject (Name):
Qazwini, Jalal al-Din Muh ammad ibn 'Abd al-Rahman, 1267 or 8-1338. Talkhis al-Miftah. and Sakkaki, Yusuf ibn Abi Bakr, b. 1160. Miftah al-'ulum
Subject (Topic):
Arabic language and literature --Rhetoric and Islamic binding
Kitab al-mutawwal / [Mas'ud ibn 'Umar al-Taftazani]. -- 1680.
Image Count:
10
Abstract:
Commentary, in the longer version, on Talkhis al-Miftah (manual of rhetoric, abridged from the Miftah al-'ulum of al-Sakkaki) of Muhammad Khatib Dimashq.
Description:
Copied in A.H. 1091 (A.D. 1680). Leaves 1-3 supplied by a later hand. and Only partial work scanned.
Subject (Name):
Qazwini, Jalal al-Din Muh ammad ibn 'Abd al-Rahman, 1267 or 8-1338. Talkhis al-Miftah. and Sakkaki, Yusuf ibn Abi Bakr, b. 1160. Miftah al-'ulum
Subject (Topic):
Arabic language and literature --Rhetoric and Islamic binding
Munāwī, ʻAbd al-Raʾūf ibn Tāj al-ʻĀrifīn, d. 1621.
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 250
Image Count:
304
Abstract:
Commentary on Unmūdhaj al-labīb fī khaṣāʾiṣ al-Ḥabīb (on the virtues of the Prophet) of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī.
Description:
Incipit of the matn compared with Ahlwardt 2577., Islamic binding, in black., Modern (19th century) naskhī, in red and black., and Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949.
ʻAlamī, Ḍiyāʼ al-Dīn Abū al-Hudá. علمي، ضياء الدين أبو الهدى.
Call Number:
Hartford Seminary Arabic MSS 188
Image Count:
7
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
A treatise about "Ahl al-Dhimmah" or "Dhimmis" (the protected minorities, mainly Christians and Jews) according to Islamic law, by Ḍiyāʼ al-Dīn Abū al-Hudá ʻAlamī who wrote his work for al-Amīr Sayf al-Dīn al-Mihrānī (probably Sayf al-Dīn Balabān al-Mihrānī, the overseer of the stables of al-Malik al-Ẓahir Baybars (Baybars I, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, 1223?-1277). No reference could be found for the author or his work. Name of copyist and place and date of copying not mentioned, probably from the 18th century.
Alternative Title:
الأحكام المهمة في شروط أهل الذمة : مخطوطة / ضياء الدين أبو الهدى علمي.
Description:
Binding: Unbound (in 1 quire)., Colophon: Colophon missing; the author ends his work with: "... Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh waḥdah wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi wa-sallam.", Forms part of the Hartford Seminary Collection. For a description of the collection, search by call number: Hartford Seminary., In fair naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; keywords and markings in red; catchwords., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh munshiʼ saḥāb al-maʻrifah fī samāʼ al-adhhān wa-muṭliʻ shams al-ʻināyah min mashriq al-fahm wa-maṭlaʻ al-bayān wa-munawwir al-jawāriḥ bi-ṣifāt al-ʻibādah wa-anwār al-īmān, wa-ashhadu an lā ilāha illā Allāh shahādata man waḥḥadahu ʻalá al-mushāhadah wa-al-ʻayān wa-ashhadu anna Muḥammadan ʻabduhu wa-rasūluhu al-mabʻūth lil-kāffah min ḍiʼḍiʼ Maʻadd ibn ʻAdnān, ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-aṣḥābihi al-makhṣūṣīn bi-al-riḍwān ... fa-qaṣada al-Amīr al-kabīr Sayf al-Dīn al-Mahrānī al-muʻadd la-hum wa-al-muḥakkam fīhim al-muʻayyan bayna al-aʻyān an adhkura la-hu mā warada fī dhālika min al-shurūṭ li-yakūna ḥujjah ʻinda al-imtiḥān fa-istakhartu Allāh wa-jamaʻtuhu bi-ḥaythu lā yaṭʻanu fīhi insān wa-sammaytuhu al-Aḥkām al-muhimmah fī shurūṭ Ahl al-Dhimmah ...", On folio 1a: "al-Aḥkām al-muhimmah fī shurūṭ Ahl al-Dhimmah takhrīj al-faqīr ilá Allāh subḥānahu wa-taʻālá al-Mawlá Ḍiyāʼ al-Dīn Abī al-Hudá ʻAlamī ḥam [ḥāmī] al-Sunnah, raḥimahu Allāh.", On folio 5b, an anecdote about the thirteen "mamsūkhūn" (those transformed into animals and inanimate objects and the reasons for their transformation), quoted from Ḥashiyat al-ʻAlqamī (Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, 1492-1556) ʻalá al-Jāmiʻ al-ṣaghīr (of al-Suyūṭi, 1445-1505): al-Fīl (elephant), al-dubb (bear), al-khinzīr (pig), al-qird (monkey), al-jirrīth (eel), al-ḍabb (lizard), al-waṭwāṭ (bat), al-ʻaqrab (scorpion), al-Zuhrah (Venus), al-duʻmūṣ (tadpole), al-ʻankabūt (spider), al-arnab (rabbit), Suhayl (Canopus)., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Secundo folio: al-Iskandarīyah ḥamāhu Allāh, Text: Folios 1a-5b; folio 6 is blank., Title from incipit., البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله منشئ سحاب المعرفة في سماء الأذهان ومطلع شمس العناية من مشرق الفهم ومطلع البيان ومنور الجوارح بصفات العبادة وأنوار الأمان، وأشهد أن لا إله إلّا الله شهادة من وحده على المشاهدة والعيان وأشهد أن محمدًا عبده ورسوله المبعوث للكافة من ضئضئ معدّ بن عدنان، صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وأصحابه المخصوصين بالرضوان ... فقصد الأمير الكبير سيف الدين المهراني المعدّ لهم والمحكّم فيهم المعيّن بين الأعيان أن اذكر له ما ورد في ذلك من الشروط ليكون حجة عند الامتحان فاستخرت الله وجمعته بحيث لا يطعن فيه إنسان وسميته ال'حكام المهمة في شروط أهل الذمة ...", بداية الورقة الثانية: الإسكندرية حماه الله, and على وجه الورقة 1: "الأحكام المهمة في شروط أهل الذمة تخريج الفقير إلى الله سبحانه وتعالى المولى ضياء الدين أبي الهدى علمي حام [حامي] السنة، رحمه الله."
Subject (Name):
ʻAlamī, Ḍiyāʼ al-Dīn Abū al-Hudá. and علمي، ضياء الدين أبو الهدى.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic manuscripts, Dhimmis (Islamic law), and Minorities (Islamic law)
Qamūlī, Najm al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1255-1327
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 283
Container / Volume:
Box 2
Image Count:
125
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Commentary on al-Wasīṭ (manual of Shafiʻi law) of Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī; volumes 9 and 16 only, The beginning of both volumes is missing, and Holograph
Description:
For what appears to be another volume of this set see Landberg MSS 53a., Considerably worm-eaten., Fair naskhī., and Other volumes wanting.
Qamūlī, Najm al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1255-1327
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 283
Container / Volume:
Box 1
Image Count:
215
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Commentary on al-Wasīṭ (manual of Shafiʻi law) of Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī; volumes 9 and 16 only, The beginning of both volumes is missing, and Holograph
Description:
For what appears to be another volume of this set see Landberg MSS 53a., Considerably worm-eaten., Fair naskhī., and Other volumes wanting.
Qamūlī, Najm al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1255-1327
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 53a
Container / Volume:
Box
Image Count:
702
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Commentary on al-Wasīṭ (manual of Shafiʻi law) of Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī., Beginning and end missing, and Perhaps a holograph (cf. Landberg MSS 283).
Description:
Fair naskhī. and Loose in Islamic binding, in brown, flap and back missing.
Modern (19th century) naskhī, in red and black. and The author was a Christian convert to Islam; on the author and work see Zapiski Kollegii vostokovedov, V, 774 ff.
On the pronunciation of the vowel fatḥah in the Koran.
Description:
Fair modern (ca. 1800) Yemenite naskhī, in red, green, and black., For the author's brother see Brockelmann, S II, p. 99., and Islamic binding, in brown, with flap.