Zīj (astronomical tables) of Ulugh Beg, 1394-1449 (a Persian astronomer), in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish, presented to the Sultan ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd Khān ibn Aḥmad Khān (Abdülhamid I Sultan of the Turks, 1725-1789), in 1193 Hijrī (1779 or 1780). Nam...
Manuscript, on paper, containing al-Suyūṭī's Raṣf al-laʼāl fī waṣf al-hilāl, an anthology of poetical pieces on "al-Hilāl" (the new moon), by Khalīl al-Ṣafadī and others
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-ʻUt...
Alternative Title:
Raḥmat al-ummah fī ikhtilāf al-aʼimmah 880-02 رحمة الأمة في اختلاف الأئمة 240-02/r Kitāb Ikhtilāf al-aʼimmah, al-musammá, Raḥmat al-ummah كتاب اختلاف الأئمة، المسمى، رحمة الأمة Ikhtilāf al-aʼimmah, al-musammá, Raḥmat al-ummah اختلاف الأئمة، المسمى، رح...
Description:
In Arabic.
Subject (Name):
Sanhūrī, Jaʻfar ibn Ibrāhīm, 1407 or 1408-1489. and ʻUthmānī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, active 1378.
Karmī, Marʻī ibn Yūsuf, -1623 or 1624 كرمي، مرعي بن يوسف، -1623 أو 1624
Published / Created:
1644.
Call Number:
Hartford Seminary Arabic MSS 82
Image Count:
198
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
A treatise on Islamic law by Marʻī ibn Yūsuf al-Karmī (d. 1623 or 1624) a prolific Ḥanbalī Islamic law scholar and historian, born in Ṭūrkarm (Palestine) then moved to Jerusalem and Cairo where he died. The author finished writing his book on Saturday...
Alternative Title:
Kitāb Dalīl al-ṭālib li-nayl al-maṭālib fī al-fiqh كتاب دليل الطالب لنيل المطالب في الفقه
Description:
In Arabic.
Subject (Name):
Karmī, Marʻī ibn Yūsuf, -1623 or 1624.
Subject (Topic):
Hanbalites, Islamic law, and Interpretation and construction
Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, 1404-1465 جزولي، محمد بن سليمان، -1465
Published / Created:
18th century.
Call Number:
Arabic MSS suppl. 617
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
A well-known collection of prayers and devotions to the Prophet Muḥammad, by Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Jazūlī, a Maghribī Muslim scholar and well-known Sufi of the Shadhilīyah Sufi order, of Berber decent, who had many devotees called "Jazūlīy...
Alternative Title:
Dalāʼil al-khayrāt 880-02 Kitāb Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa-shawāriq al-anwār fī al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-Nabī al-mukhtār دلائل الخيرات 240-02/r كتاب دلائل الخيرات وشوارق الأنوار في الصلاة على النبي المختار
Description:
In Arabic.
Subject (Name):
Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, 1404-1465., Muḥammad, Prophet, -632, and Masjid al-Nabawī al-Sharīf
Subject (Topic):
Islam, Kaʻbah (Mecca, Saudi Arabia), Prayer, and Shādhilīyah
Kemalpaşazade, 1468 or 1469-1534 ابن كمال باشا، أحمد بن سليمان، 1468 أو 1469-1534
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 550
Image Count:
13
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Three notes on al-Kashshāf ʻan ḥaqāʼiq al-Tanzīl (commentary on the Qurʼān) of Maḥmūd al-Zamakhsharī.
Description:
The authorship is uncertain. The first note is dedicated to Selim I, who ascended the throne in 1512 (cf. Ibn Kamāl Pāshā's other tract in this volume, leaf 281 verso, which is dedicated to the same); hence the author could unlikely be al-Dawwānī...
Subject (Name):
Kemalpaşazade, 1468 or 1469-1534., Selim I, Sultan of the Turks, 1470-1520., and Zamakhsharī, Maḥmūd ibn ʻUmar, 1075-1144.
Abū Nuʻaym al-Iṣbahānī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 948-1038 أبو نعيم الإصبهاني، أحمد بن عبد الله، 948-1038
Published / Created:
1765.
Call Number:
Hartford Seminary Arabic MSS 1072
Image Count:
11
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
"Juzʼ fī faḍl al-dīk", a treatise on the traits and virtues of the domestic rooster, by Abū Nuʻaym al-Iṣbahānī (Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 948-1038), a prolific author, a Ḥadīth scholar, a historian, a biographer, and frequent traveler, teacher of the well...
Description:
In Arabic.
Subject (Name):
Abū Nuʻaym al-Iṣbahānī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 948-1038.
Ḥusaynī, Muḥammad Muʼmin, -1698, author حسىنى، محمد مؤمن، -1698 author
Published / Created:
19 Shaʻbān, 1124 H [21 September, 1712]
Call Number:
Manuscript Persian S-3
Image Count:
240
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Part 4 of Tuḥfat al-muʼminīn "Precious gift of the faithful" (an encyclopedic work on medicine and materia medica) of Muḥammad Muʼmin al-Ḥusaynī al-Tunukābunī (d. 1698), a prominent physician in Azerbaijan, originally composed for the Ṣafavid Shāh Ṣaf...
Tuḥfat al-adīb fī al-radd ʻalá ahl al-ṣalīb, a polemic against Christians and the doctrines of Christianity, by ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Mayurūqī, the Arabic name used by the Franciscan monk Anselmo de Turmeda (Turmeda, Anselm, 1352-1432?), after ...
Alternative Title:
Kitāb Tuḥfat al-arīb fī al-radd ʻalá ahl al-ṣalīb كتاب تحفة الأريب في الرد على أهل الصليب
Collection of three treatises, as follows: 1. Tuḥfat al-adīb fī al-radd ʻalá ahl al-ṣalīb (folios 1a-34b), also called Tuḥfat al-arīb fī al-radd ʻalá ahl al-ṣalīb, a polemic against Christians and the doctrines of Christianity, by ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd ...
Description:
In Arabic.
Subject (Name):
Turmeda, Anselm, 1352-1432?
Subject (Topic):
Christianity, Devil, Islam, and Folk literature, Arabic
Manuscript, on paper, containing al-Ṭabarī's Tārīkh al-rusul wa-al-mulūk, Universal history, presumably abridged from (the Persian compendium of?) the Akhbār al-rusul wa-al-mulūk of al-Ṭabarī
Alternative Title:
Tārīkh al-rusul wa-al-mulūk 880-02 تاريخ الرسل والملوك 240-02/r
Ibn al-Ḥājj al-Kabīr, Muḥammad ابن الحاج الكبير، محمد
Published / Created:
1598.
Call Number:
Hartford Seminary Arabic MSS 195
Image Count:
288
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Treatise on Islamic magic and occultism by Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥājj al-Kabīr al-Tilimsānī (an obscure author). Copied by ʻAlī ibn Sālim ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Shāfiʻī, on Monday, 4 Jumād Awwal, 1007 [?] (3 December, 1598). The date of the year is suspe...
