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21. Or 6473, ff 188r-189v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6473, ff 188r-189v
Title:
Qiṣṣat al-Dhabḥ lil-Mayt wa Taḥrīm Aklihi
Scope & Content:
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 ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
2 ff

22. Or 6473, ff 191r-191v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6473, ff 191r-191v
Title:
Scope & Content:
An English translation of the above letter. No name or date.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
1 ff

23. Or 6473, ff 192r-195r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6473, ff 192r-195r
Title:
لامية الأفعال Lāmīyat al-Afʿāl
Scope & Content:
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)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
4 ff

24. Or 6473, ff 198r-226v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6473, ff 198r-226v
Title:
العقيدة الوسطى al-ʿAqīdah al-Wusṭá
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Soninke
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
31 ff

25. Or 6473, ff 227r-253v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6473, ff 227r-253v
Title:
Unidentified work on Tawḥīd
Scope & Content:
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 ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
27 ff

26. Or 6473, ff 254r-256v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6473, ff 254r-256v
Title:
Kitāb Muḥammad Kuntī
Scope & Content:
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
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Soninke
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
3 ff

27. Or 6473, ff 257v-260r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6473, ff 257v-260r
Title:
Unidentified work on Arabic grammar
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
4 ff

28. Or 6473, ff 261r-262v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6473, ff 261r-262v
Title:
Section from the Risālat Abī Zayd al-Qayrawānī (922-996)
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Soninke
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
2 ff

29. Or 6473, ff 263r-265v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6473, ff 263r-265v
Title:
Sections of the Qur'an
Scope & Content:
Sections of Sūra 6 of the Qur'an with yellow dots for tajwīd. Section crossed out/underlined.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
2 ff

30. Or 6473, ff 267r-275r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6473, ff 267r-275r
Title:
Unidentified work on fiqh
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
9 ff

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