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This volume contains a mid-thirteen century AH (nineteenth century CE) treatise on the significance and inner meanings of the invocation Bismillâhirrahmânirrahîm (‘In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate’), known as the besmele or tesmiye. Its author is Abdülfettah Niyazi ibn-i Hüsey...
A vellum scroll containing an Ottoman illuminated calligraphic almanac. Manuscripts on vellum from Turkey are relatively rare. The almanac contains a Ġurrẹnāmẹ, indicating the first day of each lunar month, and tables indicating the times of the five daily prayers as calculated for the Istanbul ...
Author: Shaʻrānī, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad, approximately 1493-1565 or 1566 VIAF ID: 173585994 Subject: Shafiites--Early works to 1800; Islamic law--Early works to 1800
Şerh-i kaside-i muallaka-i İmruülkays - شرح قصيدهٔ معلقهٔ امرؤ القيس
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This volume contains a commentary in Ottoman Turkish on the kaside of the pre-Islamic Arab poet Imruʾl-Qays, who passed away around 550 CE. It forms part of the Mu‘allaqāt, a collection of seven pre-Islamic Arabic poems authored by the most renowned poets of the sixth century CE. In his preface...
Kitāb fī ʿilm al-zardaqah كتاب في علم الزردقة Bayṭār, Abū Bakr ibn Mundhir بيطار، أبو بكر بن المنذر
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Veterinary manual on the medical treatment of horses, consisting of a summary of the fifth and sixth chapters (مقالات) of the Kitāb kāmil al-ṣināʻatayn fī al-bayṭarah wa-al-zardaqah (كتاب كامل الصناعتين في البيطرة والزردقة), also known as Kāshif hamm al-wayl fī maʻrifat amrāḍ al-khayl (كاشف هم ...