Manuscript/Mixed Material, Available Online, 1700 to 1799, Arabic, Washington (D.C.)

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[Collection of short texts or extracts from various manuscrip... Collection of texts concerning the reign of Mahmud Begara, Sultan of Gujarat.

Date: 17??

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Incomplete treatise on Shīʻah apologetics and the imams
Shiʻite apologetic and the imams Manuscript. Persian with passages in Arabic. Title supplied by cataloger. Scribe not identified. Written in either Iran or India. Paper; cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and watermark of a cross within a circle; black ink with minimal rubrication and some red overlining; catchwords. Naskh; 14 lines in written area 14 x 9.5 cm. Fol. 1a-69b. Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M140....

Date: 1723

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Kitāb rafʻ al-ḥijāb ʻan wujūh aʻmāl al-ḥisāb : al-mulakhkhaṣa...
كتاب رفع الحجاب عن وجوه اعمال الحساب : الملخصة مع تقريب المعاني وضبط القواعد والمباني في غير هذا الكتاب / Ms. is a commentary in two parts on the author's treatise on mathematics (Talkhīṣ aʻmāl al-ḥisāb). The establishment of the Berber-Muslim dynasty of the Almohads in North Africa and Andalusia in the 12th century coincided with the decline in scientific advances in many fields of knowledge, including medicine. This was not the case with mathematics, and the treatise preserved in this manuscript together with...

Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Ibn Al-Bannāʼ, Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad - Jabartī, Ḥasan Ibn Ibrāhīm - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
Date: 17??
Resource: - 109 pages

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Hādhā Bughyat al-ṭullāb ʻalá Munyat al-ḥussāb
هذا بغية الطلاب على منية الحساب / | Also known as: Bughyat al-ṭullāb fī sharḥ Munyat al-ḥussāb Poem written in rajaz meter. Marginal notes indicate that the manuscript was compared with another copy of the same text. This manuscript offers a clear example of the liveliness of the North African mathematical tradition under the Muslim-Berber dynasties that ruled over the Islamic West from the 12th century to the first half of the 17th century. They were the Almohads (12th-13th centuries), the...

Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Ibn Ghāzī, Muḥammad Ibn Aḥmad - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām - Shandawīlī, Harīdī Aḥmad
Date: 17??
Resource: - 231 pages

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[Qurʼān]
[قران] Manuscript. Arabic. Title supplied by cataloger. Scribe not identified. Written in the Caucasus? Paper; thin, cream color laid paper with horizontal laid lines and no visible chain lines or watermarks; fol. 1b and 2a elaborately decorated in gold, light blue, and red; text enclosed in an outer ruled border of a single blue line and an inner border of a blue, a very thin...

Date: 1700-01-01

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[Qurʼān] Manuscript. Arabic and Persian. Title supplied by cataloger. Written by Aḥmad al-Nayrīzī. Written in Iran. Paper; thin, cream color polished paper with no watermarks; elaborate floral unwan in gold, black, blue and red; fol. 1b and 2a have gold floral design in borders; in remainder of the work, the text is enclosed in an elaborate ruled border of blue, gold, red and blue; the...

Contributor: Nayrīzī, Aḥmad
Date: 1708

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al-Nuzhat al-ḥisāb li-Ibn al-Haʼīm
النزهة الحساب لابن هائم According to Carl Brockelmann's Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur (Supplement II, p. 154), the text is an abridgement of the author's book al-Murshidah fī ṣināʻat al-ghubār. This manuscript is an 18th-century copy of Nuzhat al-ḥisāb (The excursion of calculus) by mathematician Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Farāḍī ibn al-Hā'im (around 1356-1412). The copyist of this brief but densely written codex provided his name and the date of...

Contributor: Ibn Al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad - Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Ḥanbalī, Aḥmad Ibn Qāsim Ibn Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
Date: 1772
Resource: - 24 pages

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Wise saying (hikmah) Wise saying (hikmah) on the virtues of helping the poor (al-fuqara') in Arabic, in Naskh acript attributed to Persian calligraphers Mirza Ahmad Nayrizi (d. 1152/1739). Dimensions of Written Surface: 11.8 (w) x 16.7 (h) cm For a comparative piece signed by Vassal-i Shirazi and dated 1258/1842 held in the collections of the Library of Congress, see 1-04-713.15.6. The fragment is neither dated nor signed....

Date: 17??

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Dīvān-i Rūḥī
ديوان روحي Dīvān of a certain Rūhī, perhaps the divan poet Bağdatlı Ruhî (died 1605).

Contributor: Rūḥī
Date: 17??

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Hādhā kitāb fatḥ al-tadāwī min jamīʻ al-amrāḍ wa-al-shakāwī
هذا كتاب فتح التداوي من جميع الأمراض و الشكاوي / The text is a complete treatise on hygiene and diet and the art of preserving good health. It describes the nourishment of the parts of the human body as well as medical drugs. The text consists of six synoptic tables, each of which is divided into 16 parts. Fol. 1a-17b contain the introduction; fol. 18a-21a are blank. The rest of the book consists of...

Contributor: Muḥammad Dhū Al-Qarnayn Ibn ʻayn Al-Dawlah - Maghribī, Abū Saʻīd Ibn Ibrāhīm
Date: 17??
Resource: - 276 pages

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Arabic and Persian excerpts Textual excerpts in Arabic and Persian on faith and poetic verses, written in 18th-19th centuries, in the Indian Tahriri script by the calligrapher Fayaz 'Ali Vasi'i. As Nahali is a language spoken in Madhya Pradesh, the name of the patron suggests a north central Indian provenance for this calligraphy. The script -- a fluid tahriri found in 18th and 19th-century calligraphies from India --...

Contributor: Fayaz 'Ali Vasi'i
Date: 17??

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Kitāb sharḥ Nuzhat fī ʻilm al-ḥisāb
كتاب شرح نزهة في علم الحساب / Manuscript is a commentary on Ibn al-Hāʼim's book Nuzhat al-nuẓẓār, which itself represents the author's abridgement of his work Murshidat al-tālib illá asnaʼ al-maṭālib. This 18th-century manuscript offers a clear example of the continued use in the Islamic world of the scientific commentary well after the end of Middle Ages, the period most associated with Arabic scientific achievement and this literary form. In this...

Contributor: Ibn Al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad - Ghazzī, Aḥmad Ibn Qāsim - Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Azharī, Ḥasan Al-Badrī Al-Shāfiʼī Al-Shādhilī Al-Laythī
Date: 1722
Resource: - 124 pages

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Munājāt
مناجات Caliph 'Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib (circa 601-61) is one of the most revered religious and holy figures of Islam. In Iran, he is referred to by the honorary name Amir al-Muʼminin, which translates from Arabic as “Commander of the Faithful” and is used to refer to him in Persian. Written works by 'Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib and sayings attributed to him are sacred to...

Contributor: Vahīd Ḥusaynī - Alī Ibn Abī Ṭālib - ʻalī Ibn Abī Ṭālib
Date: 17??

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Wardah al-juyūb fī al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-Ḥabīb
وردة الجيوب في الصلاة على الحبيب | Wardat al-juyūb fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-Nabī al-maḥbūb Islamic prayer book composed of selections from Dalāʾil al-khayrāt and Riyāḍ al-anwār. This North African manuscript dating from the early to mid-18th century is a prayer book, Wardah al-juyūb fī al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-Ḥabīb (Collection of prayers for the Prophet Muhammad). Prayers for the Prophet Muhammad have a special place in Muslim devotional life. They were first enshrined in the Qurʼan: verse 56 of chapter...

Contributor: Jazūlī, ʻumar Ibn ʻabd Al-ʻazīz - Jazūlī, Muḥammad Ibn Sulaymān - Mukhtār Ibn Muḥammad
Date: 1727
Resource: - 190 pages

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Hādhā kitāb sharḥ Badʻ al-amālī l
هذه كتاب شرح بدء الامالي / Commentary on al-Ūshī's poem Badʼ al-amālī on Islamic doctrines.

Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Ibn Jamāʻah, Muḥammad Ibn Abī Bakr - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
Date: 1765

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Gulzar calligraphic panel Qajar era Shi'i Gulzar calligraphic panel of prayers with illustrauions of the 12 Imams written in thuluth, naskh, nasta'liq, shikastah, tawqi', and Kufi scripts by the calligrapher Husayn Zarrin Qalam. All around the larger letters composed in the nasta'liq style and filled with motifs appear smaller Shi'i prayers purposefully executed in a number of different scripts. These include thuluth, naskh, nasta'liq, shikastah, tawqi', and...

Contributor: Husayn Zarrin Qalam
Date: 1797

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Qur'anic Chapters 1 and 114 Qur'anic Chapters 1 and 114 written in fine shikastah (literally, "broken") script during the 18th-19th centuries in Iran. Below the Fatihah appears one of the shortest chapters of the Qur'an entitled Surat al-Nas (Mankind). It praises God as the Lord of Mankind (Malak al-Nas) and as the Protector from Satan (literally, the "Whisperer"): Dimensions of Written Surface: 9.2 (w) x 14.5 (h) cm In...

Date: 17??

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Hādhā Kitāb al-kharāj al-Imām Abī Yūsuf, rahimahu Allah taʻāl...
هاذا كتاب خراج الامام ابي يوسف رحمه الله تعالى، صاحب الامام الاعظم ابي حنيفة النعمان، قضي الله عنه Kitāb al-Kharāj (Book of taxation) is a classic text on fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence), written by Abū Yusūf Yaʻqūb Ibrāhīm al-Anṣārī al-Kūfī (died 798; 182 A.H.) at the request of the Abbasid caliph Hārūn al-Rashīd (763 or 766-809). Abū Yusūf was the most famous student of Abū Ḥanīfa and along with his illustrious teacher is considered one of the founders of the Ḥanafī school of...

Contributor: Ḥamawī, Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad Ibn ʻabd Allāh - Abū Yūsuf Yaʻqūb
Date: 1732
Resource: - 205 pages

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Zubdat al-afkār min muṣannafāt Mawlānā ʻAbd al-Ḥakīm al-Siyāl...
زبدة الافكار من مصنفات مولانا عبد الحكيم السيالكوتي على حاشية العلامة مولى الخيالي | Also known as: Siyalkūtī ʻalá al-Khayālī Commentary on Khayālī's commentary on the Aqāʼid of al-Nasafī.

Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Siyālkūtī, ʻabd Al-Ḥakīm Ibn Shams Al-Dīn - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
Date: 1728

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Sharḥ al-ʻallāmah Aḥmad ibn Qāsim al-Ghazzī al-Shāfiʻī ʻalá a...
شرح العلامة احمد ابن قاسم الغزي الشافعي على النزهة في الحساب لإبن الهائم Manuscript consists of an introduction, 2 chapters, and an epilogue. The text is a commentary on Ibn al-Hāʼim's book Nuzhat al-nuẓẓār, which itself represents the author's abridgement of his work Murshidat al-tālib illá asnaʼ al-maṭālib. The present manuscript preserves a copy of Aḥmad ibn Qāsim al-Shāfi'ī al-Ġhazzī's Kitāb sharḥ al-nuzha fī 'ilm al-ḥisāb (The book of the explanation of the excursion in the science...

Contributor: Ibn Al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad - Ghazzī, Aḥmad Ibn Qāsim - Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
Date: 17??
Resource: - 128 pages

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Praises to Husayn Dimensions of Written Surface: 9.7 (w) x 16.3 (h) cm Shi'i blessings in Arabic directed to Husayn, the Prophet Muhammad's grandson through his son-in-law 'Ali, written in Indian thuluth from Deccan India. The text is executed in an Indian variant of thuluth script in black ink on a red ground. Words are fully vocalized also with black diacritical marks in order to ensure proper...

Date: 17??

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Mihrab découpage panel A Qit'a, or literally "cutting out" a découpage panel cut out to produce an image of interlacing vines and flowers with Arabic prayers typical of Ottoman Turkey in the 18th or 19th century. Above the mihrab, a rectangular frame contains the words Allah, Muhammad (peace and prayers upon him), and 'Ali written in such a way as to create a reverse or mirror image....

Date: 17??

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Kitāb mafātīḥ al-raḥmah wa-asrār al-ḥikmah
كتاب مفاتيح الرحمة و أسرار الحكمة | Part II has title : Mafātīḥ al-ḥikmah Part II entitled "From keys of wisdom" is divided into 7 sections: Definitions and symbols; Promotion and what can be promoted; Distillation, what cannot be distilled; Conversions and synthesis; Degradation and decomposition; How the chemist deduced these facts; and, The stages of work. It is hard to consider this part an accurate translation of Zosimos book "Keys of the craft". It often contains references...

Contributor: Ṭughrāʼī, Al-Ḥusayn Ibn ʻalī - Zosimos
Date: 17??
Resource: - 529 pages

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Sharḥ al-Lumaʻ fī ʻilm al-ḥisāb
شرح اللمع في علم الحسالب The system of fara'iḍ (shares) for inheritances is considered to be one of the most advanced innovations introduced by Muslim conquerors in Middle Eastern and North African societies. The exact calculation of shares of inheritance is a complex chapter in Islamic law, and it is not surprising that Muslim intellectuals and scientists developed a system of mathematical tools in order to master "the science...

Contributor: Ibn Al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad - Khāsikī, ʻalī Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Aḥmad - Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām - Sibṭ Al-Māridīnī, Badr Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad
Date: 1761
Resource: - 44 pages

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Wall hanging A Qit'a, or literally "cutting out" a découpage panel in the shape of a closed altar piece with Qur'anic verses typical of Ottoman Turkey in the 18th or 19th century. Another découpage calligraphic panel similar to this piece also is held in the Library of Congress (1-84-154.6): this piece may have been the companion piece of 1-84-154.5. Diameter of calligraphic circle: 15.1 cm Diameter...

Date: 17??

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Ijazah (diploma) An "ijazah", or diploma of competency in Arabic calligraphy, was written by 'Ali Ra'if Efendi in 1206/1791. Dimensions of Sheet: 28 (w) x 21 (h) cm For further information on ijazah practices, see F. Déroche, "Maîtres et disciples: la transmision de la culture calligraphique dans le monde musulman," Revue du Monde Musulman et de la Méditerranée 75-6 (1996): 81-90 and U. Derman, "Turk yazi...

Contributor: Ali Ra'if Efendi
Date: 1791

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Incomplete collection of two Arabic works and two unidentifie... An incomplete compilation including an Arabic treatise on the sultanate and caliphate based on a hadith of Kaʻb al-Akhbār with an interlinear Persian translation, an Arabic treatise on the legal division of human actions into lawful and unlawful, and two unidentified poems in Persian; the last of the poems is incomplete.

Date: 17??

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[Collection of Arabic religious and ascetic sayings and adage... Collection of Arabic religious and Sufi adages with Persian explanations following each adage.

Date: 17??

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Story in Arabic about a princess who told riddles to a young man Executed in: Oriental [Karaite?]. Semi-square script. Description based on finding aid Story in Arabic about a princess who told riddles to a young man.

Date: 17??

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Id (feast day) Blessing New Year's (Nowruz) or 'Id (feast day) blessing in Persian, written in Nasta'liq script with Arabic invocation to the prophet of Islam, from India. Dimensions of Written Surface: 22.1 (w) x 8 (h) cm haqq-i ta'ala in 'id-ra bi-dhat 'ali (ya) / Navab Sahib dama iqbaluhu mubarak va humayun gardanad It appears that this calligraphic panel was executed to celebrate the New Year and...

Date: 17??

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Kitab Qawāʻid al-ʻaqāʼid muḥaqqiq-i Ṭūsī Naṣīr al-Millah wa-a...
كتاب قواعد العقائد محقق طوسي نصير الملة والدين قدس سره Brief treaties on Islamic doctrine.

Contributor: Ṭūsī, Naṣīr Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad
Date: 17??
Resource: - 129 pages

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Levha Levha or a calligraphic panel with an Arabic saying written in black Nasta'liq script typical in Ottoman and Safavid eras. Dimensions of Written Surface: 29.5 (w) x 19.5 (h) cm This calligraphic panel includes an arabic saying written in black nasta'liq script on a brown background framed in blue and pink borders decorated with gold designs. The lower right and left corners of the...

Date: 17??

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Mirror image of 'Ali wali Allah Ottoman Turkish Levaha in Arabic, 18th-century written by calligrapher Mahmud Ibrahim. Dimensions of Written Surface: 21.6 (w) x 16 (h) cm The process of mirror writing and mirror image-making flourished in the Ottoman empire during the 18th and 19th centuries, in particular in mystical quarters associated with the Bektashi order. The Bektashis created calligraphic panels and paintings representative of their tenets, among which the...

Contributor: Mahmud Ibrahim
Date: 172?

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Qur'anic verse (14:7) on blue and white marble paper Qur'anic verse (14:7) Surat Ibrahim (Abraham), written in Thuluth, Persian Naskh, and Tawqi' scripts, Safavid or Ottoman era Marbled paper (ebru in Turkish, or Kaghaz-i abri in Persian) calligraphic tradition. Dimensions of Written Surface: 20 (w) x 11.5 (h) cm The blue and white marble paper is also typical of calligraphic panels produced in 18th century Iran and Turkey. Marbled paper (ebru in Turkish,...

Contributor: Abu Muhammad Khan Al-Ma'rashi
Date: 17??

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Hādhā kitāb ʻAjāʼib al-dunyā wa-mā fīhā
هاذا كتاب عجائب الدنيا و ما فيها / | Partie de Merveìlle du monde, Adjaib-i makhlukhat | ʻAjāʼib al-dunyā wa-mā fīhā The text is a section of ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt by Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad Qazwīnī. This text contains sections extracted from the second part of the well-known and highly popular work of cosmography known as ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt, written in the 13th century (7th century AH) by Abū Yaḥyā Zakarīyā al-Qazwīnī. The work begins with a section on the sources and properties of gems and stones, followed...

Contributor: Ibn Muḥammad, ʻalī - Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā Ibn Muḥammad
Date: 1797
Resource: - 136 pages

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Id blessings Arabic blessings to a ruler on the occasion of 'id, written in Arabic by Persian calligrapher Muhammad 'Ali in the Naskh script. Dimensions of Written Surface: 14.9 (w) x 22 (h) cm In the lower left corner, the calligrapher (Muhammad) 'Ali has signed his work and dated it 1142/1729-30. It appears that the original calligrapher's name, which included the name 'Ali, was erased purposefully....

Contributor: Muhammad) 'Ali
Date: 1729

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Kashf al-qināʻ fī waḍʻ al-arbāʻ min al-jihat al-sitt fī ʻilm ...
كشف القناع في وضع الأرباع من الجهة الست في علم الفلك According to the colophon (fol. 12a), the author wrote the work in 830 H [1426] based on the lectures of Nūr al-Dīn al-Naqqāsh ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir. This manuscript in 12 folios is a mid-18th-century copy of Kašf al-Qinā' fī rasm al-arbā' (The removal of the veil in the description of the quadrants), a treatise devoted to the description of the astronomical instrument known as...

Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Ibn ʻabd Al-Qādir, Nūr Al-Dīn Al-Naqqāsh - Ibn Al-ʻaṭṭār, Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad
Date: 1737
Resource: - 23 pages

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Interlinear Qur'an (5: 89-95) Qajar Iranian Interlinear Qur'an, Arabic with Persian interpretation. Although not as refined as some Persian interlinear Qur'ans made for Safavid rulers (Bayani et al 1999: 138-45, cat. no. 45), this fragment reveals the extent to which the practice of translation in Persian and other non-Arabic languages became an integral part of the program of Qur'anic production. For instance, many Qur'ans from Kashmir nearly contemporary...

Date: 1792

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Sharḥ ʻalá Tashrīḥ al-aflāk lil-ʻĀmilī
شرح على تشريح الأفلاك للعاملي Text consists of extracts from and commentary on Tashrīḥ al-aflāk by Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʻĀmilī. Fol. 65b contains a list of book titles and a short story (scratched out) dated 1232 H [1816 or 17] and written in a second hand. This manuscript contains an anonymous astronomical treatise that most likely was produced in the 18th or early 19th century. The only...

Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - ʻāmilī, Bahāʼ Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Ḥusayn - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām - Khalīl, Muḥammad
Date: 17??
Resource: - 132 pages

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Kitāb nukhab al-dhakhāyir fī aḥwāl al-jawāhir
كتاب نخب الذخاير في أحوال الجواهر / Kitāb nuhab al-dahā'ir fī ahwāl al-jawāhir (The selection of treasures regarding precious stones) is a treatise devoted to precious stones and, in particular, to the different kinds of hyacinth (a precious stone of the ancients, sometimes held to be the sapphire). The work opens with a draft of a poem on precious stones on the title page, probably copied at the same time as...

Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Ibn Al-Akfānī, Muḥammad Ibn Ibrāhīm - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
Date: 17??
Resource: - 11 pages

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Kitāb sharḥ al-Lumaʻ fī al-ḥisāb
كتاب شرح اللمع في الحساب / The text is a commentary on al-Lumaʻ al-yasīrah fī ʻilm al-ḥisāb by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn al-Hāʼim. According to the colophon, the author stated that he finished writing the commentary on 27 Ramaḍān 873 [10 April 1469] in Abū Tīj in al-Ṣa'īd, [Egypt]. The treatise in this manuscript is a commentary on a mathematical treatise by Šihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn al-Hā'im (circa...

Contributor: Ibn Al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad - Sibṭ Al-Māridīnī, Badr Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad
Date: 17??
Resource: - 40 pages

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al-Insān fī al-ṭibb
الإنسان في الطب | Title from fol. 1b: Majmūʻ fī ʻilm al-ṭibb | Majmūʻ fī ʻilm al-ṭibb al-insānī Text is a treatise on the human body and how to maintain good health. It explains that the body is composed of chemical elements, and deals with medication, nutrition, and diseases of various parts of the body. This anonymous manuscript can be dated to between the second half of the 18th century and the first years of the 19th century, thanks to a watermark...

Date: 17??
Resource: - 59 pages

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Kitāb-i akhlāq-i muḥsinī
كتاب اخلاق محسني Treatis on Islamic ethics and religious life.

Contributor: Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ
Date: 17??

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Sample calligraphies Sample calligraphies from India, Central Asian and Persia (Shared Content) Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Urdu and Uzbek) Panels executed in a variety of scripts, especially those which utilize the flower and fish scripts, seem to date from the 18th and 19th centuries and were made in Iran and India. For example, a calligraphic panel executed by the Persian calligrapher Husayn Zarrin Qalam in 1212/1797-8 held...

Contributor: Hakim Sayyid Hamid 'Abbas Al-Taqawi Al-Bukhari
Date: 17??

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Spousal advice Arabic work titled: "Spousal Advice" in Thuluth script from 18th Cent. Mughal India. Dimensions of Written Surface: 18.4 (w) x 17.6 (h) cm First line of text: line 2 / Second line of text: line 4 / Third line of text: line 6 / Fourth line of text: line 5 (up-side-down) / Fifth line of text: line 3 (up-side-down) / Sixth line of text:...

Contributor: Abdallah (Lahuri)
Date: 17??

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Kitāb al-jadwal al-mubārak fī ʻilm al-zamān wa-al-falak fī ḥi...
كتلب الجدول المبارك في علم الزمان و الفلك في حساب مداخل الأشهور العربية و الرومية / | Binder's title : Kitāb al-jadwāl al-mubārak fī ḥisāb madākhil al-ashhur al-ʻArabīyah wa-al-Rūmīyah li-ibn Jaḥḥāf | Kitāb al-jadwāl al-mubārak fī ḥisāb madākhil al-ashhur al-ʻArabīyah wa-al-Rūmīyah li-ibn Jaḥḥāf Because of the religious obligation to perform canonical prayers at set times of the day and the sanctity attributed to particular times of the year, such as the month of Ramaḍān, Muslim scientists have studied questions relating to the calendar and the reckoning of time almost since the beginning of Islam. The present manuscript presents tables for the comparison of the Hijrī and Christian...

Contributor: Ḥarrāzī, Ibrāhīm Ibn Muḥammad Al-Sahl - Ḥidyah, Maḥrūs - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām - Ibn Jaḥḥāf, Al-Ḥusayn Ibn Zayd Ibn ʻalī - Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Watarī, Muḥammad ʻalī Ibn Ẓāhir - Walīdī, Aḥmad Ibn ʻīsá
Date: 1729
Resource: - 25 pages

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Sūrat al-Qāf
سورة القاف | SURAT / AL / AHQĀF Sūrat al-Ahqāf with interlinear Persian translation.

Date: 17??

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Levha Ottoman calligraphic panels (qit'a), framed calligraphic inscription called a Levha in Ottoman Turkish, In Arabic. Written in Nasta'liq script and common to Ottoman Turkey and Safavid Persia. Dimensions of Written Surface: 23.8 (w) x 16.6 (h) cm The text is executed in a large and beautiful nasta'liq script on a beige sheet of paper. The letters are surrounded by very light traces of cloud...

Contributor: Muzaffar 'Ali
Date: 17??

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Taʻlīq ʻalá sharḥ al-Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr al-Hudʹhudī ʻ...
تعليق على شرح الشيخ محمد بن منصور الهدʹهدي على السنوسية / Glosses by the otherwise unidentified author al-Sūranqāshī on al-Hudʹhudī's commentary on al-Sanūsīyah.

Contributor: Sūranqāshī, ʻalī Al-Khaṭīb Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Qāsim Ibn ʻumar - Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
Date: 1750

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Bahāʼīyah fī al-ḥisāb
بهائية في الحساب Text is a well-known manual on arithmetic. The author of this mathematical treatise, Bahā' al-Dīn Al-'Amilī (1547-1621), is considered one of the leading intellectuals of 17th-century Safavid Persia (present-day Iran). He was born in Baalbek (present-day Lebanon) but moved to Persia in his youth where he devoted his entire life to study. He excelled in various fields, leaving a legacy of more than 80...

Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Ṭabbāqī, Muḥammad - ʻāmilī, Bahāʼ Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Ḥusayn - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
Date: 17??
Resource: - 74 pages

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Ḥāshīyat al-Ḥifnī ʻalá al-Yāsamīnīyah
حأشية الحفني على اليأسمينية Commentary on Lumʻah al-Māridīnīyah fī sharḥ al-Yāsamīnīyah by Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Sibṭ al-Māridīni, which itself is an exposition of al-Yāsamīnīyah by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ḥajjāj Ibn al-Yāsamīn. The colophon (fol. 14b) says that the author finished composing the work on 14 Shaʻbān 1167 H [6 June 1754]. The mathematical tradition that developed in North Africa during the Middle Ages continued to attract...

Contributor: Sibṭ Al-Māridīnī, Badr Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad - Fayyūmī, Muḥammad Aḥmad ʻabd Al-Raḥīm Al-Azhārī - Ḥifnī, Muḥammad Ibn Sālim - Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Ibn Al-Yāsamīn, ʻabd Allāh Ibn Ḥajjāj - Maḥallī, ʻuthmān Ibn Yūsuf Ibn Yūsuf ʻuthmān Al-Ṣayyād - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
Date: 17??
Resource: - 31 pages

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Kitāb Dalāʼil al-khayrāt
كتاب دلائل الخيرات | Title on frontispiece: Dilayil-khayrat = A guide for the good | Guide for the good A collection of prayers for the Prophet, with a description of his tomb and his names. This Muslim prayer book is a 1785 copy of an original 15th-century manuscript. The work includes a panorama of Mecca and Medina, the holy cities of Islam in Saudi Arabia. Mecca, where the Prophet Muhammad was born and lived for the first 50 years of his life, is...

Contributor: Batchelder, John Davis - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - Jazūlī, Muḥammad Ibn Sulaymān - Mawlawī, Muḥammad Ibn Ibrāhīm
Date: 1772
Resource: - 300 pages

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[Qurʼān] Manuscript. Arabic. Title suppllied by cataloger. Written by Muṣṭafá al-Khaṭīb in the Sulṭanīyah mosque. Written in Iran. Paper; polished, cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; elaborate decoration on fol. 1b and 2a in gold, dark blue, red, and light blue; remainder of text enclosed in wide ruled border of gold and black; individual sūrah's have titles in white...

Date: 1739

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Prayer (Du'a) for forgiveness Prayer (Du'a) for forgiveness in Arabic written in Naskh script by the 19th century Iranian calligrapher and Naskh-revivalist: Vassal-i Shirazi (d. 1262/1846). Dimensions of Written Surface: 12.5 (w) x 20 (h) cm For a comparative piece signed by Vassal-i Shirazi and dated 1258/1842 held in the collections of the Library of Congress, see 1-04-713.15.6. The fragment is neither dated nor signed. However, text panels...

Date: 17??

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Levha (panel) Dimensions of Written Surface: 20.4 (w) x 15.5 (h) cm Shi'i calligraphic panels in Arabic written in Thuluth script by calligrapher Muhammad Ibrahim during the 18th century Iran and India. In the left vertical border, the artist Muhammad Ibrahim has included his seal and has dated his composition 1134/1721-2. Both the right and left vertical borders are decorated with blue-and-white marble (ebru or abri)...

Contributor: Muhammad Ibrahim
Date: 1721

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