al-Qānūn al-waḍīḥ fī ‘ilm al-bayzarah القانون الواضح في علم البيزرة Waṭwāṭ, وطواط
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Treatise on falconry focussing on the health and treatment of birds of prey attributed on the cover page (f. 1r) to al-Waṭwāṭ (الوطواط), presumably Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Yaḥyá (محمد بن إبراهيم بن يحى, d. 1318) the Mamluk bookseller and author of the encyclopedia of natural history Mab...
Tuḥfat al-Fuḥūl fī tamhīd al-uṣūl fī ‘ilm al-biḥār تحفة الفحول في تمهيد الأصول في علم البحار Mahrī, Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad مهري، سليمان بن أحمد
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A manual on the principles of navigational theory by Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān al-Mahrī (سليمان بن أحمد بن سليمان المهري, fl. 16th century), here called al-Muḥammadī (المحمدي), an Indian Ocean navigator from the city of al-Shiḥr (الشحر), Yemen. The treatise is arranged in seven parts (أبوا...
[Dürretü’t-tac fi sireti sahibi’l-mi‘rac] - [درة التاج في سيرة صاحب المعراج]
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This volume contains an account of the life of the Prophet Muhammad up to his migration to Medina and building of the Quba mosque on the city’s outskirts. It was authored by the renowned Ottoman writer and poet Üveys ibn-i Mehmed, whose mahlas was Veysi (died 1037 AH/1628 CE). The work is common...
[Tercüme-i Şerhü’s-Senusiyye] – [ترجمهٔ شرح السنوسية]
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This volume contains an Ottoman Turkish translation of Muhammad ibn ‘Amr ibn Ibrāhīm al-Tilimsānī al-Mallālī’s Arabic commentary of the Sanūsiyya, which he completed in around 1000 AH/1591 CE. The Sanūsiyya is a theological primer authored by the theologian of Tlemcen (northern Algeria) Muhammad...
This volume contains the collected fetava of Şeyhülislam Feyzullah Efendi (1048-1115 AH/1638/9-1703 CE). He was born in Erzurum to a scholarly family claiming descent from the Prophet Muḥammad. After following his teacher Vani Efendi (died 1096 AH/1685 CE) to Istanbul, and subsequently marrying ...
