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2981. 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

2982. 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

2983. 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

2984. Or 6880, ff 305r-306r

Reference (shelfmark):
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

2985. 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

2986. 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

2987. 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

2988. Or 6880, ff 324r-325v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6880, ff 324r-325v
Title:
Esoteric practice
Scope & Content:
Instructions on how many times to recite a given passage from the Qur'an depending on whether your need is great, average, small or "as insignificant as food and drink". ff 324v-325r contain instructions on how to fill in a number square drawn on an allo board in order to have your need fulfilled...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
2 ff

2989. Or 6880, ff 329r-330v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6880, ff 329r-330v
Title:
Wird
Scope & Content:
The wird (daily practice) of ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī (1077–1166 ) and the ten ways he will intercede to help the bearer of this wird (blessing the bearer, accompanying him at the moment of death, finding the right answer to questions posed etc.). Introduced by a prayer (f. 327r)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
2 ff

2990. Or 6953

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6953
Title:
Collection of Arabic works of West African provenance
Scope & Content:
This volume contains fourteen separate works in Arabic from West Africa. Among them are four works on Maliki law, one on tawḥīd, two works on Arabic grammar, two poems, three works on hadith and one on Qādirī Sufism. The last work is the Rawḍ al-Jinān composed by the Wazīr of Sokoto, Gidado dan L...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
294 ff

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