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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Or 6473

21. Or 6473, ff 184v-187v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6473, ff 184v-187v
Title:
Section of the Maqāmāt of al-Ḥarīrī
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
4 ff

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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

28. 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

29. 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

30. 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

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