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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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    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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    Taʻlīq ʻalá sharḥ al-Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr al-Hudʹhudī ʻalá al-Sanūsīyah
    تعليق على شرح الشيخ محمد بن منصور الهدʹهدي على السنوسية / Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     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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    Hādhihi risālah fī tafsīr qawlihi Taʻālá Innā ʻaraḍnā al-amānah ʻalá al-samawāt wa-al-arḍ wa-al-jabāl al-ayah lil-marḥūm al-Shaykh Ibrāhīm al-Maʼmūnī al-Shāfiʻī raḥimahu Allāh taʻālá amīn yā Rabb al-ʻālamīn tī al-dunyá wa-al-akhirah. : Wa-yalīhā ayḍan ...
    هاذه رسالة في تفسير قوله تعالى إنا عرضنا الامانة على السموات والارض والجبال الاية للمرحوم الشيخ إبراهيم المأموني الشافعي رحمه الله تعالى امين يا رب العالمين تي الدنيى والاخرة. : و-يليها ايضا صورة مكتوب له ارسله لمولانا المرحوم يحيى أفندي المفتي إلى بلاد الروم رحمه الله تعالى الجميع | Risālah fī tafsīr āyat Innā ʻaraḍnā al-amānah ilkh. li-Ibrāhīm al-Māmūnī al-Shāfiʻī Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Commentary on a verse from Sūrat al-Aḥzāb together with a letter to an Ottoman Muftī Yahya Efendi who is possibly Mufti Minkarizade Yahya Efendi (1609 or 1610-1678).
    • Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām - Maymūnī, Ibrāhīm Ibn Muḥammad
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    al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah
    الملخص في الهيئة     Mulahhas fī al-Hay'a (Compendium of astronomy) by Sharaf al-Dīn Mahmūd ibn Muhammad ibn 'Umar al-Jiġhmīnī (died circa 1221) is one of the most famous textbooks of astronomy ever produced in the Islamic world. The importance of the work is clearly indicated by the existence of thousands of copies of the text, some representing the autonomous tradition of the Mulahhas itself, others preserving the work...
    • Contributor: Ṭawīl, Ḥasan - Jighmīnī, Maḥmūd Ibn Muḥammad - Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
    • Date: 1872
    • Resource: - 51 pages

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    Hādhihi Risālah laṭīfah fī kalām ʻalá al-Basmalah
    هذه رسالة لطيفة في كلام على البسملة / | Risālah fī al-Basmalah li-Ismāʻīl ibn Ghunaym al-Jawharī Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Treatise on the Basmalah.
    • Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Jawharī, Ismāʻīl Ibn Ghunaym - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
    • Date: 1800
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    Kitāb Ikhtiyār sharḥ al-Mukhtār
    كتاب اختيار شرح المختار / | Ikhtiyār sharḥ al-Mukhtār     Commentary on Mawṣiliʾs own work titled al-Mukhtār. This manuscript copy is a commentary on al-Mukhtār lil-fatwá (The chosen one in edicts), one of four authoritative works in Hanafi Islamic jurisprudence. Both the original work and the commentary are by ʻAbd Allah ibn Mahmud al-Mawsili (1202 or 1203-84), also known as al-Buldahi or Ibn Mawdud. A one-page introductory note traces his teachers from Mawsil (Mosul,...
    • Contributor: Mawṣilī, ʻabd Allāh Ibn Maḥmūd
    • Date: 1400
    • Resource: - 496 pages

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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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    Hādhihi Muqaddimat Ḥafṣ
    هذه مقدمة حفص / | Muqaddimat Ḥafṣ li-Fāyid ibn Mubārak al-Abyārī Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Treatise on the reading of the Qurʼān according to Ḥafṣ ibn Sulaymān.
    • Contributor: Abyārī, Fāʼid Ibn Mubārak - Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
    • Date: 1500
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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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    Khazāʼin al-jawāhir wa-makhāzin al-zawāhir
    خزائن الجواهير ومخازن الزواهر | Risālah fī al-basmalah li-Abī Saʻīd Muḥammad al-Khādimī | Risālat al-basmalah Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Sufi treatise on the basmalah.
    • Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Khādimī, Muḥammad Ibn Muṣṭafá - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
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    Hādhihi Ḥāshiyat Jalāl al-Dīn al-Ṣiddīqī
    هذه حاشية جلال الدين الصديقي / Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Commentary on Dawwānī's commentary on the ʻAqāʼid al-ʻAḍudīyah.
    • Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Qarabāghī, Yūsuf - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
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    al-Nujūm al-shāriqāt fī dhikr baʻḍ al-ṣanāīʻ al-muḥtāj ilayhā fī ʻilm al-mīqāt
    النجوم الشارقات في ذكر بعض الصنايع المحتاج إليها في علم الميقات     Text is divided into 25 chapters. The colophon of the present manuscript--on the recto of the second folio--offers a potentially misleading view of the subject of this 16th-century treatise by Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Ḫayr al-Ḥasanī. Al-Nujūm al-Šāriqāt fī dikr baʻḍ al-ṣanā'īʻ al-Muḥtāj ilayhā fī ʻIlm al-Mīqāt (The rising stars in the mention of some of the arts required in the science of timekeeping) does...
    • Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām - Ḥasanī, Muḥammad Ibn Abī Al-Khayr
    • Date: 18??
    • Resource: - 84 pages

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    Ḍawʼ al-lumaʻ fī al-ḥisāb
    ضوء اللمع في الحساب     Text is a poem on arithmetic dedicated to Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Bahwashī al-Shāfiʻī, as mentioned at the end of the manuscript. This work is a versified treatise on arithmetic ('ilam al- ḥisāb), and specifically the art of dividing inheritance (farā'iḍ), which has application in Islamic law. After a standard expression of praise for the Prophet, his companions, and later followers,...
    • Contributor: Ibn Al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad - Bahwāshī, Shihāb Al-Dīn Aḥmad Ibn Shams Al-Dīn Muḥammad - Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Ḥamīdī, ʻabd Al-Raḥmān Ibn Aḥmad Ibn ʻalī - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
    • Date: 1588
    • Resource: - 34 pages

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    Az̲ān-i ṣuḥb
    اذان صبح     Manuscript. Persian and Arabic. Caption title. Scribe not identified. Gift of A.A. Kachif, Nov. 20, 1930. Written in Iran. Paper; thick, polished light cream color paper with no watermarks; elaborate floral unwan in gold, blue, red, and white with wide borders of a similar floral pattern and similar colors of fol. 1b and 2a; an outer border of two very thin lines accompanies all...
    • Date: 16??

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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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    Kitāb Jawāhir al-kalām
    كتاب جواهر الكلام Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     al-Ījī's epitome of his Mawāqif fī ʻilm al-kalām on Islamic theology.
    • Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Ījī, ʻaḍud Al-Dīn ʻabd Al-Raḥmān Ibn Aḥmad - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
    • Date: 1909
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    al-Sifr al-thālith min al-Jāmiʻ al-ṣaḥīḥ al-mukhtaṣar min umūr Rasūl Allāh sallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallama wa-sannafahu wa-aqāmahu tālīf al-Imām Abī ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ismāʻīl al-Bukhārī, raḥimahu Allah tatlūhu fī al-sifr al-rābʻ tafsīr ...
    السفر الثالث من الجامع الصحيح المختصر من امور رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وسبفه واقامه تاليف الامام ابي عبد الله محمد بن اسماعيل البخاري رحمه الله تتلوه في السفر الرابع تفسير القرءان | Title in ʻunwan folio 1b: Kitāb badʾ al-khalq     Muhammad ibn Isma'il al-Bukhari (810-70) was born in Bukhara, in present-day Uzbekistan, and died in Khartank, near Samarkand. He is considered by Sunni Muslims to be the most authoritative collector of hadiths--reports of statements or deeds attributed to the Prophet Muhammad. This work, completed in 846, is al-Bukhari's best-known collection. It was the first work of its kind exclusively dedicated to hadiths, and is...
    • Contributor: Bukhārī, Muḥammad Ibn Ismāʻīl
    • Date: 16??
    • Resource: - 406 pages

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    Hādhā kitāb al-Tibyān fī ādāb tilāwat al-Qurʼān
    التبيان في آداب حملة القرآن Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Treatise on the study and teaching of the Qurʼān and its recitation.
    • Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām - Nawawī
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    Kitab Qawāʻid al-ʻaqāʼid muḥaqqiq-i Ṭūsī Naṣīr al-Millah wa-al-Dīn quddisa sirrahu
    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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    Hādhā Kitāb al-kharāj al-Imām Abī Yūsuf, rahimahu Allah taʻālá, ṣāḥib al-Imān al-Aʻẓam Abī Ḥanīfah al-Nuʻmān, raḍiya Allah ʻanh
    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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    Hādhā Sharḥ mukhtaṣar al-Tuffāḥah fī ʻilm al-misāḥah
    هذا شرح مختصر التفاحة في علم المساحة | Title in colophon: Sharḥ muntakhab al-Tuffāḥah | Majmuʻ fīhi al-Tuffāḥah fī ʻilm al-misāḥah wa-ghayrihā | Majmuʻ bi-hi al-Tuffāḥah fī ʻilm al-misāḥah wa-ghayrihā     Text is a commentary on al-Tuffāḥah fī ʻilm al-misāḥah by al-Ashʻarī. This manuscript is a commentary on the treatise Al-Tuffāḥa fi 'ilm al-Misāḥa (The apple in the science of measurement), which was written at the beginning of the 12th century by the mathematician Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ašh'ari. The study of measures and measurement techniques ('ilm al-misāha) was of great interest to Arabic mathematicians during...
    • Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Ashʻarī, Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad - Dimashqī, ʻabd Al-Laṭīf Ibn Aḥmad - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
    • Date: 1887
    • Resource: - 45 pages

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    Hādhihi Ḥāshiyah ʻalá matn al-Sanūsīyah al-ṣughrā al-musammāh Umm al-barāhīn li-baʻḍ al-fuḍalāʼ ibn jalā, wa-huwa ʻAbd Alllāh Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar al-Tilimsānī
    هذه حاشية على متن السنوسية الصغرا المسماة بأم البراهين لبعض الفضلا ابن جلا وهو عبد الله محمد بن عمر التلمساني | Ḥāshiyah ʻalá matn al-Sanūsīyah al-ṣughrā al-musammāh Umm al-barāhīn Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Commentary on al-Sanūsī's Umm al-barāhīn.
    • Contributor: Mallālī, Muḥammad - Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
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    Kitāb rafʻ al-ḥijāb ʻan wujūh aʻmāl al-ḥisāb : al-mulakhkhaṣah maʻa taqrīb al-maʻānī wa-ḍabṭ al-qawāʻid wa-al-mabānī fī ghayr hādhā al-kitāb
    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