An incomplete copy of the maqāmāt of Abū Muḥammad Ibn al-Qāsim al-Ḥarīrī al-Baṣrī (1054-1122). A maqāma is a literary work of rhymed prose, of which al-Ḥarīriī's is the best known.
A treatise on the forbidden nature of butchering and eating animals that have died of natural causes, by Muḥammad al-Amīn Suwaré . The colophon (f189v) reports that: "The butchering of dead animals such as the cow is not allowed among us, [although] butchering dead animals is done by many in the ...
A versified treatise on morphology by the famous Andalusian grammarian Muḥammad Ibn ʿAbd Allāh Ibn Mālik al-Ṭāʾī al-Jiyānī, known as Ibn Mālik (1204 – 1274)
A section from the "middle creed" of Muḥammad Ibn Yūsuf al-Sanūsī (1435/6-1490), a work on belief (tawḥīd). Sanūsī wrote a small, middle and large creed to suit different levels of advancement in study. Gloss in Soninke ʿajamī. The colophon states that the owner is al-Ḥajj Kasama (Gasama) and his...
A work denouncing innovation (bidʿa), citing the Egyptian Maliki fiqh scholar Sālim al-Sanhūrī and the Sharḥ ʿAqīdat ahl al-tawḥīd al-kubrá of Yūsuf al-Sanūsī. The creator states that "the tradition (Sunnah) in our time is amongst innovations (bidʿa) like a white hair in the hide of a black ...
A poem outlining the duties of a Muslim and seemingly philosophical commentary on life. The copyist states in the colophon that "I wrote [out] the book for myself and for anyone who is not corrupted (?)." He names the book "the book of Muḥammad Kuntī", perhaps the son of Sīdī al-Mukhtār al-Kuntī
A book on iʿrāb (Arabic case endings). A point of interest is that instead of the basmala there is "b-ism jār wa majrūr" (in the name of the genitive case). Copied in a fine Sudanic hand.
Section from the Risālat Abī Zayd al-Qayrawānī (922-996)
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Two non-sequenced folios from a copy of the Risāla of Tunisian Maliki fiqh specialist Abī Zayd al-Qayrawānī (922-996). The pages concern preparing a body for burial. Gloss in ʿajamī language.
A selection of fiqh rulings such as the obligation to go on pilgrimage and the obligation to pay zakat, derived from the hadith. The colophon states that the owner is Ibrāhīm Suwaré, son of Muḥammad Suwaré and Fāṭima Dramé.