History of the caliphs, Preceded by 3 leaves of notes, and Copied in Sanʻa, Yemen, in A.H. 1024 (A.D. 1615).
Alternative Title:
Tārīkh al-khulafāʼ 880-02, Taʼrīkh al-khulafāʼ, تاريخ الخلفاء 240-02/r, and تأريخ الخلفاء
Description:
Available on microfilm, Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān. Ammā baʻd ḥamd Allāh alladhī waʻada fa-wafá wa-awʻada fa-ʻafā ...", Good Yemenite naskhī, in red and black; ʻunwān in gold and colors on leaf 1 verso., Occasional marginalia., Islamic binding, in brown, with flap., No. 1 of 3 titles bound together., Colophon: "Wāfaqa al-farāgh min raqm hādhā al-taʼrīkh ... yawm al-Jumʻah, ghurrat shahr Ramaḍān ... ʻām arbaʻ wa-ʻishrīn baʻda al-alf ... bi-maḥrūs madīnat Ṣanʻāʼ al-Yaman ... bi-rasm ... Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Khazrajī ... bi-yad ... Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻUfayr [?] ...", and Translation of the colophon: "This history book was completed ... on Friday, the beginning of the month of Ramaḍan ... of the year 1024 [of the Hijrah = 31 January 1615] ... in the protected city of Ṣanʻāʼ of Yemen ... for ... Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Khazrajī ... by the hand of ... Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻUfayr [?] ..."
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