Collection of twelve didactic poems in the rajaz metre (أراجيز) on jurisprudence (فقه), the calculation of inheritance shares (فرائض), and medicine (طب), grammar (نحو), and other sciences. A descriptive volume title has been written in black ink along the head edge of the folios: 'Poems on scie...
al-Munīr lil-manār المنير للمنار Khalīlī, Muḥammad Ghars al-Dīn ibn Ghars al-Dīn خليلي، محمد غرس الدين بن غرس الدين
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Didactic poem (أرجوزة) on the principles of Islamic jurisprudence (أصول الفقه) by the Ottoman scholar and imam at the Prophet's Mosque (المسجد النبوي) in Medina, Ghars al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Khalīlī (غرس الدين محمد بن أحمد الخليلي, d. 1647-8). The poem is a versification of the Epitome of...
al-Tuḥfah al-qudsīyah fī al-farāʼiḍ التحفة القدسية في الفرائض Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ابن الهائم، أحمد بن محمد
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Didactic poem (أرجوزة) on the calculation of inheritance shares (فرائض) by the mathematician Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Maqdisī al-Faraḍī (شهاب الدين أبو العباس أحمد بن محمد المقدسي الفرضي, d. 1412), known as Ibn al-Hā’im (ابن الهائم). Begins (f. 30r, lines 2-3): بحمد...
Urjūzat al-kubrá fī al-ṭibb أرجوزة الكبرى في الطب Avicenna ابن سينا
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Didactic poem (أرجوزة) on medicine by Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). The poem is a versification of the author's own Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطب). Contents: [Part 1 of the poem: On theoretic...