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Sharḥ khulāṣat al-ḥisāb شرح خلاصة الحساب Kāẓimī, Jawād ibn Saʿd كاظمي، جواد بن سعد
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Commentary by Jawād ibn Saʿd ibn Jawād al-Kāẓimī (جواد بن سعد بن جواد الكاظمي, d. ca 1654-5 [see al-Amīn, A‘yān al-shī‘ah, vol. 4, p. 271]) on the Summa of Arithmetic (خلاصة الحساب) by his teacher Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي; d. 1621). The text co...
Tashrīḥ al-aflāk تشريح الأفلاك ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn عاملي، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين
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Summary of theoretical astronomy (هيئة) by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي; d. 1621) in which the author argues that the earth rotates around its axis. The copy was completed on 9 Sha‘bān 1114/29 December 1702 by Ibn Muḥammad Riḍá Muḥammad Amīn (ابن م...
Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb خلاصة الحساب ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn عاملي، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين
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Very popular Safavid textbook of arithmetic by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي; d. 1621). The treatise consists of an introduction (مقدمة), nine chapters (أبواب), and a conclusion (خاتمة). Each chapter subdivided into sections (فصول), in some cases pr...
Fragment of a commentary on Ibn Sīnā's (ابن سينا) Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (القانون في الطب)
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Two quires from a fragment of a commentary on Ibn Sīnā's (ابن سينا, d. 1037) Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطب), defective at beginning and end. The present fragment comprises quires three and four of the original volume (ff. 2r-26v; see quire signatures on ff. 2r and 17r, and mid-quire marks o...
Fragments of a medical manuscript, divided into three sections each separated by an unfoliated blank flyleaf. Each section is defective at beginning and all but the last also at the end with no indication of authors or titles. Contents: (1) Anonymous commentary on Ibn Sīnā's (ابن سينا, d. 1037)...
A letter from Muḥammad al-Amīn Suwaré in Touba to his son
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A letter from Muḥammad al-Amīn Suwaré in Touba to his son in Medina Suwaré Kunda, that he was to give to one Fūdī ʿUmar Sāma requesting the return of his book, Nafḥ al-Ṭayyib, a praise work. He lent it to the latter so that he could copy it, but he had not returned the book after repeated letters...
A quote from Saʿdī's Tārīkh al- Sūdān, composed c. 1655. This forms part of the ninth chapter, "A mention of some of the scholars and upright persons who lived in Timbuktu", mentioning those in the town who were well-known for their praising of Prophet Muḥammad on his birthday. 266v is the basmal...
A list of the ten companions of Prophet Muḥammad, stating after each that they encompassed both the hidden and the manifest knowledge (a Sufi-derived concept). The writer states that "we heard it from our sheikh al-Ḥajj Gasama". This is presumably the same figure referred to at other points of th...
