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51. Or 4897, ff 280r-283v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4897, ff 280r-283v
Title:
Short work on Numerology
Scope & Content:
A short work on numerology in ritual practice. The colophon gives Uthmān Dhat (?) as the owner and "al-Muṣṭafā Suwaré named Muḥammad Kayta" as the copyist.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
4 ff

52. Or 4897, ff 284r-286v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4897, ff 284r-286v
Title:
Scope & Content:
A work on the correct procedure for prayer
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
3 ff

53. Or 4897, ff 287r-288r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4897, ff 287r-288r
Title:
Scope & Content:
Subject unclear, seems incomplete (no bismillāh or colophon), parts in Arabic but other parts in ʿajamī language or otherwise letter combinations for ritual practice.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
2 ff

54. Or 4897, ff 289r-290v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4897, ff 289r-290v
Title:
قال نبي المرأة الجاهلية لها زوج أفضل عند الله من إمرأة عابدة Qāl nabī al-marʾah al-jāhilīyah lahā zawj afḍal ʿind Allah min imraʾah ʿābidah
Scope & Content:
A short treatise on marriage and the actions of wives towards their husbands. Incomplete work.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
2 ff

55. Or 4897, ff 291r-292r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4897, ff 291r-292r
Title:
Scope & Content:
Short praise work for Muhammad
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
2 ff

56. Or 4897, ff 304r-305r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4897, ff 304r-305r
Title:
Instructions for ritual practice
Scope & Content:
Instructions for ritual practices involving talisman (perhaps a filled-in talisman contained within the folded page). Sections of backwards and intercrossed writing. "There is no doubt in it, it has been tested, it is from the Shams al-Maʿārif (of al-Būnī?)"
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
2 ff

57. Or 6473, f 190r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6473, f 190r
Title:
A letter from Muḥammad al-Amīn Suwaré in Touba to his son
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
1 f

58. Or 6473, f 196v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6473, f 196v
Title:
Unidentified work
Scope & Content:
A short versified work on morphology
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
1 f

59. Or 6473, f 197v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6473, f 197v
Title:
Unidentified work
Scope & Content:
A short prayer. Details unclear
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
1 f

60. Or 6473, f 266r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6473, f 266r
Title:
Section of the Tārīkh al-Sūdān
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
1 f

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