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    Kitāb Itḥāf al-murīd bi-Jawharat al-tawḥīd
    كتاب إتحاف المريد بجوهرة التوحيد / Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Commentary on the author's father's work "Jawharat al-tawḥīd".
    • Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Laqānī, ʻabd Al-Salām Ibn Ibrāhīm - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
    • Date: 1600
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    Qāḍīʹzādah ʻalá al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah
    قاضي زادة على الملخص في الهيئة
    A commentary on al-Jighmīnī's book on astronomy, al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah. The author of this commentary, Ṣalāh al-Din Musa ibn Muḥammad, also known as Qādī Zāda (the son of the judge), was born in Bursa (present-day Turkey) in 1364 and died in Samarkand (present-day Uzbekistan) in 1436. His first teacher, al-Fanāri, suggested that he move to the scientific centers of the time, Herat in Khorasan...
    • Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Salīm, Muḥammad - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām - Qāḍīʹzādah, Mūsá Ibn Muḥammad - ʻabd, Muḥammad Riḍā
    • Date: 16??
    • Resource: - 267 pages

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    Arabic Manuscripts 343. Mimars.
    • Contributor: St. John Climax [John, Climacus, Saint, Active 6th Century] [John Klimax]
    • Date: 1612

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    Kitāb qaṭr al-sayl fī amr al-khayl
    كتاب قطر السيل في أمر الخيل /
    Manuscript is an abridgement of Faḍl al-Khayl by ʻAbd al-Muʼmin ibn Khalaf a-Dimyāṭī. The legal scholar 'Umar ibn Raslān al-Bulqīnī was from a renowned family of Egyptian scholars of Palestinian origin. In his Muqaddima (Introduction), the great Arab historian and historiographer Ibn Khaldūn (1332-1406) praised al-Bulqīnī as the most celebrated jurist of his era, even though Al-Bulqīnī did not gain the prestigious title of...
    • Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Dimyāṭī, ʻabd Al-Muʾmin Ibn Khalaf - Bulqīnī, ʻumar Ibn Raslān - Khalīl, Muḥammad - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
    • Date: 1653
    • Resource: - 66 pages

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    [Qurʼān] Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Manuscript. Arabic and Persian. Title supplied by cataloger. Written by "Ibn ʻAlī". Gift of Cyrus Ebrahim Zadeh, Nov. 9, 2009. Written in Iran? Text proceeded by 2 lithographed fragments pasted front and back; the second one, facing first page of manuscript, is lithograph of Sūrat al-fātiḥah from unidentified edition of the Qurʼān....
    • Date: 1695

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    Jāmiʻ al-qawāʻid fī al-misāḥah
    جامع القواعد في المساحة | Binder's title: Fann al-thālith min kitāb jāmiʻ al-qawāʻid fī ʻilm al-misāhah
    The text deals with the precise measurement of the size and shape of the earth, mapping points on the earth's surface, and the study of the earth's gravitational fields. The manuscript includes only three chapters on the third topic. On the last page is a note written in a different script about measuring with different kinds of cubits. This manuscript, probably dating from the...
    • Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - ʻayyād, Muḥammad - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
    • Date: 16??
    • Resource: - 37 pages

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    Sharḥ al-Khulāṣah fī al-ḥisāb
    شرح الخلاصة في الحساب /
    Text is a commentary on al-Khulaṣah fī al-ḥisāb by Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʻĀmilī. Two poems attributed to ʻAmr ibn al-ʻĀṣ on title page in a different hand. Last page includes a note in a third hand on a different topic. The present manuscript preserves an extensive commentary on the 17th-century mathematical treatise Al-Ḫulāṣa fī al-Ḥisāb (The abridgment on calculus), which was composed...
    • Contributor: ʻāmilī, Bahāʼ Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Ḥusayn - ʻamr Ibn Al - Baytūshī, ʻabd Allāh Ibn Muḥammad - ʻabāyī, ʻabd Allāh Ibn ʻīsá Ibn Ismāʻīl - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām - Jazarī, Ramaḍān Ibn Abī Hurayrah - Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1665
    • Resource: - 125 pages

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    Zubūr Āl Muḥammad
    زبور آل محمد | Zubūr Ahl al-Bayt | Ṣaḥīfah al-Sajjādīyah | Zābūr Āl Muḥammad, 1064 A.H., Ad'iyah wa-mawāiẓ | Also known as: Zubūr Ahl al-Bayt | Also known as: Ṣaḥīfah al-Sajjādīyah | Title on container: Zābūr Āl Muḥammad, 1064 A.H., Ad'iyah wa-mawāiẓ
    Collection of doxologies and prayers, ascribed to ʻAlī or to his grandson Zayn al-ʻĀbidin ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn
    • Contributor: Zayn Al-ʻābidīn ʻalī Ibn Al-Ḥusayn - ʻalī Ibn Abī Ṭālib
    • Date: 1654

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    Hādhihi risālah li-Ibn al-Hāʼim al-musammāt [sic] Nuzhat al-ḥisāb, al-mukhtaṣarah min al-Murshidah
    هذه رسالة لابن الهائم المسمات نزهة الحساب المختصرة من المرشدة
    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. The manuscript contains an introduction, two chapters, and an epilogue. On fol. 1a is a table of written numbers for use in official documents as well as verses (in code?). On fol. 33b, verse 6:115 of the Qur'an is...
    • Contributor: Ibn Al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad - Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
    • Date: 16??
    • Resource: - 64 pages

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    Kitāb azhār al-afkār fī jawāhir aḥjār
    كتاب أزهار الافكار في جواهر الاحجار / | Kitāb al-jawāhir lil-Tifāshī
    Azhār al-Afkār fī Jawāhir al-Ahjār (The blossoms of thoughts regarding precious stones) is considered the most detailed and complete treatise of the Middle Ages on stones and their properties. Lapidaries, or treatises devoted entirely to the discussion of precious stones and their features, can be traced to ancient Greece. Pliny, in his Naturalis Historia (Natural history), mentions at least 20 authors as sources of...
    • Contributor: Muḥammad ʻabduh - Nīshī, Maḥmūd Ibn Ḥasan - Jawharī, Muḥammad Abū Hādī - Tīfāshī, Aḥmad Ibn Yūsuf
    • Date: 16??
    • Resource: - 140 pages

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    Zīj
    زيج
    The present manuscript is a commentary entitled Anwār al-nujūm (The lights of the stars) by an author who appears to have stated his name as Jamist al-Rumi (Jamist the Byzantinian). The work is based on Al-zīj al-jadīd (The new astronomical tabulations) by Alī ibn Ibrāhīm Ibn al-Shāṭir (died 1375), the most-distinguished Muslim astronomer of the 14th century. Ibn al-Shāṭir was active as muwaqqit (timekeeper)...
    • Contributor: ʻabd Allāh, Mūsá Ibn Muḥammad - Ibn Al-Shāṭir, ʻalī Ibn Ibrāhīm - Minami Manshū Tetsudō Kabushiki Kaisha. Tōa Keizai Chōsakyoku
    • Date: 16??
    • Resource: - 782 pages

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    Kitāb Kashf al-asrār ʻammā khafīya ʻan al-afkār
    كتاب كشف الاسرار عما خفي عا الافكار / Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Treatise on Islamic doctrines and ethics.
    • Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Ibn Al-ʻimād Al-Aqfahsī, Aḥmad - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
    • Date: 1600
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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 Mā lā yasaʻu al-ṭabīb jahluh
    كتاب ما لا يسع الطبيب جهله
    A well-organized medical treatment manual explains the evolution of the healing art in the Middle Ages. It is an abridgement of Ibn al-Baytar's "Kitāb al-Jāmiʻ li-mufradāt al-adwiyah," with some additions dealing with nutrition and medicine. This manuscript was copied in 1682 by Ibn ʻAbd al-Nabī Muḥammad Ibn ʻAbd al-Nabī, as noted in the colophon of the manuscript. It preserves a comprehensive pharmacological compendium by...
    • Contributor: Ibn Al-Kutubī, Yūsuf Ibn Ismaʻīl - Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Ibn Al-Bayṭār, ʻabd Allāh Ibn Aḥmad - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām - Ibn ʻabd Al-Nabī, ʻabd Al-Nabī Muḥammad
    • Date: 1682
    • Resource: - 700 pages

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    Ḥāshiyat al-Sayyid al-Sharīf ʻalá Sharḥ al-Tajrīd al-Ṭūsī lil-Iṣfahānī al-mashhūr bi-al-Sharḥ al-ʻaqāyid
    حاشية السيد الشريف على شرح التجريد الطوسي للإصفهاني المشهور بالشرح العقايد Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Commentary on the commentary by Maḥmūd ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Iṣfahānī on the Tajrīd al-ʻaqāʼid by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī.
    • Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām - Jurjānī, ʻalī Ibn Muḥammad
    • Date: 1600
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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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