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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Inheritance and succession (Islamic law) Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. Add MS 5932, ff 107v-110v

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Add MS 5932, ff 107v-110v
Title:
Nihayat al-ikhtiṣār fī ‘ilm al-farā’iḍ نهاية الاختصار في علم الفرائض Ibn al-Labbān, Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd Allāh ابن اللبان، محمد بن عبد الله
Scope & Content:
Fragment of treatise on the calculation of inheritance shares (علم الفرائض) by Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-Faraḍī al-Baṣrī (أبو الحسين محمد بن عبد الله الفرضي البصري; d. 1011; see ff. 107v, line 2, transcribed below), known as Ibn al-Labbān (ابن اللبان; see ff. 107v, note in right-h...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

Ff. 107v-110v

2. Add MS 7556, ff 30r-33v

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Add MS 7556, ff 30r-33v
Title:
al-Tuḥfah al-qudsīyah fī al-farāʼiḍ التحفة القدسية في الفرائض Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ابن الهائم، أحمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Ff. 30r-33v

3. Add MS 9639, ff 1r-114r

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Add MS 9639, ff 1r-114r
Title:
[Sharḥ ʿalá urjūzah fī al-farāʾiḍ lil-Burrī شرح على أرجوزة في الفرائض للبري] Maghīlī, ʻAlī ibn Yaḥyá مغيلي، علي بن يحيى
Scope & Content:
Commentary by ʻAlī ibn Yaḥyá al-Maghīlī (علي بن يحيى المغيلي, active 1413), named in the present volume as Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿAṣnūnī al-Maghīlī (أبو الحسن علي بن صالح العصنوني المغيلي, see f. 1v, lines 3-4), on a didactic treatise in verse on the law of inheritance shares (farāʾiḍ)...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
2 Rajab 1064
Extent:
Ff. 1r-114r

4. Add MS 15480, ff 2v-88v

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Add MS 15480, ff 2v-88v
Title:
al-Sharīfīyah fī sharḥ al-farāʾiḍ al-sirājīyah الشريفية في شرح الفرائض السراجية Jurjānī, ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad جرجاني، علي بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Commentary by ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAli al-Ḥusaynī al-Jurjānī ( علي بن محمد بن علي الحسيني الجرجاني; d. 1413), known as al-Sayyid al-Sharīf (السيد الشريف), on the al-Farā’id al-Sirājīyah (الفرائض السراجية), a treatise on Ḥanafī inheritance calculation by Sirāj al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad a...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
25 Shuwwāl 1177
Extent:

Ff. 2v-88v

5. Delhi Arabic 1897

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Delhi Arabic 1897
Title:
Two treatises on algebra and inheritance calculations and an excerpt on magic squares Khuzā‘ī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad خزاعي، محمد بن أحمد
Scope & Content:
Collection of treatises and excerpts mostly by the Yemeni mathematician Jamāl al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar al-Khuzāʾī (جمال الدين أبو عبد الله محمد بن أحمد بن عمر الخزاعي, fl. 13th century, see King, 'A Medieval Arabic Report on Algebra Before al-Khwārizmī' and idem, Mathem...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1036
Extent:

Codex; ff. iii+133+i

6. IOR/L/PS/5/472, ff 376-448

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IOR/L/PS/5/472, ff 376-448
Title:
Despatches from HM's Envoy in Persia
Scope & Content:
Enclosure nos. 2-3 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay [Mumbai], dated 9 March 1848. The enclosures are dated 10-20 January 1852. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to affairs in Persia [Iran], including: The removal of Meerxa Tekkee Khan [Mīrz...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
8 Mar 1852
Extent:
1 item (73 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/18/B418

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IOR/L/PS/18/B418
Title:
Dynastic Claims of the Imam of Sana'a to the Aden Protectorate
Scope & Content:
The file contains a note by George Stewart Symes (Political Resident and Commander-in-Chief, Aden) written to the Secretary of State, 22 October 1928, which introduces three enclosures. Enclosure 1: A note drawn up by Major Trenchard Craven William Fowle (First Assistant Resident, Aden) with a ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1929
Extent:

1 file (6 folios)