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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Or 6880

41. Or 6880, ff 272r-275v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6880, ff 272r-275v
Title:
Scope & Content:
A work collating the sayings of scholars of the Shāfiʿī school of the 11th-12th century CE such as Abū al-Maʿālī and Abū Ḥāmīd al-Ghazālī. The work is reported to have been written by al-Muṣṭafā Ibn al-Faqīh Muḥammad Ghāsī. The work begins with instructions for the quick answering of prayers with...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
4 ff

42. Or 6880, ff 276v-277v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6880, ff 276v-277v
Title:
Kitāb al-Jūr
Scope & Content:
A book outlining the five different types of jūr (Hausa: goro, kola nut) and the benefits of eating it. Each type has a different colour and different benefits including strengthening the mental faculties, sweetening the breath, etc.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
2 ff

43. Or 6880, ff 278r-293v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6880, ff 278r-293v
Title:
Scope & Content:
Unidentified poem with extensive notation often dwarfing the main body of the text. On f. 288 there is a small piece of paper attached to main page with thread for the purpose of extending a note on the text.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
16 ff

44. Or 6880, ff 294r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6880, ff 294r
Title:
Fāʾidah
Scope & Content:
A charm for memory and understanding: "whoever writes it out and imbibes it will remember everything they hear". Underneath is a talismanic device resembling a diagram or map, perhaps a representation of the charm.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
1 f

45. Or 6880, ff 294v-297r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6880, ff 294v-297r
Title:
Thalāthūn lā yuʿdhar fīhā bi'l-jahl ʿalā Madhab al-Imām Mālik
Scope & Content:
This book starts with "the thirty matters for which ignorance is no excuse according to the Maliki school". It contains versified fiqh rulings from the Maliki school followed by a few sayings of Anas Ibn Mālik added after the colophon.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
4 ff

46. Or 6880, ff 298r-304v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6880, ff 298r-304v
Title:
Matn al-Raḥabīyah fī al-Mawārīth
Scope & Content:
A list of judicial rulings on inheritance by Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad al-Raḥabī (1103- 1181), copied with hemstitches like a poem but in prose. The colophon mentions the lineage of the copyist.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
7 ff

47. Or 6880, ff 305r-306r

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Or 6880, ff 305r-306r
Title:
Scope & Content:
Final pages of an unidentified work concerning instructions for ritual ablutions followed, by a hadith concerning the angel of death and the archangels.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
2 ff

48. Or 6880, ff 307r-310v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6880, ff 307r-310v
Title:
Poem of Ibn al-Ḥāj
Scope & Content:
The final verses of a poem by Muḥammad Ibn al-Ḥāj al-ʿAbdarī al-Fassī, an Egyptian/Moroccan Maliki fiqh scholar and theologian famous for his "Madkhal".
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
4 ff

49. Or 6880, ff 318r-319v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6880, ff 318r-319v
Title:
Fāʾidah
Scope & Content:
Qur'anic verses and magic writing. Verso: instructions for writing a talisman to gain wealth or favourable treatment from a ruler
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
2 ff

50. Or 6880, ff 322r-323v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6880, ff 322r-323v
Title:
Esoteric practice
Scope & Content:
Praise formulas to God, with number table. Note: folios laid out incorrectly. Rectos should be versos.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
2 ff

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