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.