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2971. Or 6880, ff 206r-211v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6880, ff 206r-211v
Title:
Shamsīyat al-Ikhwān
Scope & Content:
A poem on the practices of the Tijānī Sufi brotherhood in fine Sudani script. Elaborate colophon on f. 211r reports that the work was copied "at the house of ʿAbd Allāh, nicknamed Jibrīl, in the country of Ghāya" and gives praises to the Prophet who "put an end to unlawful innovations". Then foll...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
6 ff

2972. Or 6880, ff 212r-218r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6880, ff 212r-218r
Title:
Qaṣīdat al-Waʿīẓī al-Mīmiyya
Scope & Content:
A poem by the Sufi poet named variously Ḥishām al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan Ibn ʿAlī or Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh al-Waʿīẓī al-ʿArūḍī or al-Waʿīẓī al-Ḥasānī, but commonly known as al-Waʿīẓī. Copied in beautiful Sudani script, possibly in the Hausa style, with copious notation by the same hand. The colophon ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
7 ff

2973. Or 6880, ff 219r-236r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6880, ff 219r-236r
Title:
Scope & Content:
A series of commentaries upon various single lines of poetry (highlighted in red) by a "Shaykh ʿAbd Allāh Ibn ʿAlī" who also made this copy. Unusual hooked design to introduce and end the work with colophon.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
18 ff

2974. Or 6880, ff 237v-242v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6880, ff 237v-242v
Title:
al-Nafaḥāt al-Qudsīyah
Scope & Content:
A poem by al-Ḥasan Ibn Abī al-Qāsim Ibn Bādīs (d.1385/86), a Maliki fiqh jurist from Constantine, Algeria.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
6 ff

2975. Or 6880, ff 243r-256v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6880, ff 243r-256v
Title:
Kitāb Jumlat al-Masāʾil wa al-Fatāwá
Scope & Content:
The preface states that: "this is the book of a collection of matters and fatwas of this singular age of our time, exalted in its centuries, of ʿAlī Ibn al-Ḥasan al-Saʿīdī". In the colophon the anonymous copyist says that he copied the work for himself.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
14 ff

2976. Or 6880, ff 257r-267v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6880, ff 257r-267v
Title:
Section of the Risālat Abī Zayd
Scope & Content:
A section of the Risāla of Ibn Abī Zayd al-Qayrawānī (922-996), a writer of instructional religious works. This section deals with trials and witness statements.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
11 ff

2977. Or 6880, ff 268v-271r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6880, ff 268v-271r
Title:
The Bāb al-Farāʾiḍ from the Risālat Abī Zayd
Scope & Content:
A section of the Risāla of Ibn Abī Zayd al-Qayrawānī (922-996), a writer of instructional religious works. This chapter deals with the division of an estate after death. The text is written in beautiful Central Sudanic/Hausa hand. The colophon praises an unnamed sheikh for his knowledge and patie...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
4 ff

2978. 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

2979. 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

2980. 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

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