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Manuscript/Mixed Material al-Kalām al-yasīr fī ʻilāj al-maqʻadah wa-al-bawāsīr الكلام اليسير في علاج المقعدة و البواسير /

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Title

  • al-Kalām al-yasīr fī ʻilāj al-maqʻadah wa-al-bawāsīr

Other Title

  • الكلام اليسير في علاج المقعدة و البواسير /

Summary

  • The present manuscript preserves a copy of a brief medical treatise by the erudite polymath Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Munʻim al-Damanhūrī (1690-1778). The name of al-Damanhūrī more traditionally is connected with his activity as a professor at Al-Azhar University in Cairo and with his numerous treatises on politics, Islamic law, logic, and rhetoric. One of his works, a fatwa in which he criticized the building of new churches and the reopening of old ones in 18th-century Cairo, recently has been published in English translation. The treatise in this manuscript shows a different aspect of al-Damanhūrī's intellectual activity: his medical knowledge. The Kalām al-yasīr fī ʻilāj al-maqʻada wa-al-bawāsīr (The little treatise on the medical treatment of the back and of hemorrhoids) is a medical work in which al-Damanhūrī addresses the treatment of calculi--in particular of kidney and bladder calcul--and deals briefly with cures for hemorrhoids and for back pain. A noteworthy feature of the work is the practical and straightforward style in which the author explains the possible remedies for these illnesses. World Digital Library.
  • The text addresses the causes, diagnosis, and medical treatment by diet and drugs of calculi (stones) in the kidney, bladder, hemorrhoids, and hips. The text was written in 1169 H [1755]. The colophon is followed by a second incomplete text.

Names

  • Damanhūrī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Munʻim
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Suwayfī, Aḥmad Muḥammad ʻAlī Kishk, scribe
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 26 Shaʻbān 1264 H [27 July 1848].

Headings

  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)
  • -  Medicine, Arab
  • -  Proctology

Notes

  • -  [Egypt?]
  • -  Fol. 1a-14b; fol. 15-18 blank.
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-588.
  • -  Ms.
  • -  Naskhī script; 21 lines in written area, 16 x 10 cm.
  • -  Paper: yellowed cream, with watermarks (tre lune, initials E A N), in medium condition; stains on bottom of most leaves. Black ink on title page, text in black with some rubricated words. Some underlining in red; marginal notes on fol. 8a. Catchwords on rectos.
  • -  Transcribed by Suwayfī Aḥmad Muḥammad ʻAlī Kishk on 26 Shaʻbān 1264 H [27 July 1848].
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Incipit: حمدا لمن أبدع الأصول والمولدات واختار منها ذوى الروية والعقول ... وبعد فيقول أحقر الأنام طهره الله من وصمة الأثام. هذه مسايل ضرورية جليلة تتعلق بعلاج المقعدة العليلة بأدوية شهيرة كثيرة الوجود قريبه التحصيل لكل فقير وغنى كنود . . .

Medium

  • 18 leaves (21 lines), bound ; paper ; 22 x 15 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • RC864 .D36 1848

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2008401933

Online Format

  • pdf
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Chicago citation style:

Damanhūrī, Aḥmad Ibn ʻAbd Al-MunʻIm, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, Aḥmad Muḥammad ʻAlī Kishk Suwayfī, and Mansuri Collection. al-Kalām al-yasīr fī ʻilāj al-maqʻadah wa-al-bawāsīr. [26 Shaʻbān H 27 July 1848, 1848] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/2008401933/.

APA citation style:

Damanhūrī, A. I. ʻ. A., Manṣūrī, M. A., Suwayfī, A. M. ʻ. K. & Mansuri Collection. (1848) al-Kalām al-yasīr fī ʻilāj al-maqʻadah wa-al-bawāsīr. [26 Shaʻbān H 27 July 1848] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2008401933/.

MLA citation style:

Damanhūrī, Aḥmad Ibn ʻAbd Al-MunʻIm, et al. al-Kalām al-yasīr fī ʻilāj al-maqʻadah wa-al-bawāsīr. [26 Shaʻbān H 27 July 1848, 1848] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2008401933/>.