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    Kitāb al-jadwal al-mubārak fī ʻilm al-zamān wa-al-falak fī ḥisāb madākhil al-ashhūr al-ʻArabīyah wa-al-Rūmīyah
    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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    Taqrīr al-qawānīn.
    تقرير القوانين Catalog Record Only
    Sājaqlīzādah's treatise on dialectic and logic.
    • Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām - Sājaqlīzādah, Muḥammad Ibn Abī Bakr
    • Date: 1727
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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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    [Baidha saphu] Collections of stotra used in getting rid of planetory influences.
    • Contributor: South Asian Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1722
    • Resource: - 39 pages

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    Sharḥ Bināʼ
    شرح بناء / | Sharḥ al-Bināʼ lil-Kaffawī Catalog Record Only
    Commentary on al-Dunqūzī's Bināʼ al-afʻal on Arabic inflection.
    • Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām - Kaffawī, Muḥammad Ibn Ḥumayd
    • Date: 1725
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    Sharḥ laṭīf Muqaddimat Shaykh al-Islām Zakarīyā al-Anṣārī
    شرح لطيف مقدمة شيخ الإسلام زكريا الأنصاري / Catalog Record Only
    Manuscript. Arabic. Title from fol. 1a. Scribe not identified. Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945. Place of writing not determined. Paper; yellowed, dark cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and countermark A B; black ink with rubrication; catchwords. Brockelmann. GAL, GII, p. 99 Naskh; 23 lines in written area 15 x 7 cm. Fol. 1b-67a. "H-0195 = 1.210." Library of Congress. Mansuri...
    • Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Sanbāṭī, Aḥmad Ibn ʻabd Al-Ḥaqq - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
    • Date: 1728
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    Zubdat al-afkār min muṣannafāt Mawlānā ʻAbd al-Ḥakīm al-Siyālkūtī ʻalá Ḥāshiyat al-ʻallāmah Mawlá al-Khayālī
    زبدة الافكار من مصنفات مولانا عبد الحكيم السيالكوتي على حاشية العلامة مولى الخيالي | Also known as: Siyalkūtī ʻalá al-Khayālī Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    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-Qaṣīdah al-muḍarīyah.
    شرح القصيدة المضرية | Sharḥ Ibrāhīm al-Kharīm al-Būzqirī ʻalá Qaṣīdat al-Būṣīrī al-Muḍarīyah Catalog Record Only
    Otherwise unattested commentary by Bozkîrî İbrahim Efendi on al-Būṣīrī's Qaṣīḍah al-muḍarīyah.
    • Contributor: Bozkîrî Ibrahim Efendi - Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
    • Date: 1725
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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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    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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    Ḥāshiyat Mīr Abī al-Fatḥ ʻalá Sharḥ Mullā Ḥanafī.
    حاشية مير أبي الفتح على شرح ملا حنفي Catalog Record Only
    Mīr Abū al-Fatḥ al-Saʻīdī's commentary on Mullā Ḥanafī's commentary on al-Ījī's Risālah al-ʻAḍudīyah.
    • Contributor: Saʻīdī, Mīr Abū Al-Fatḥ Ibn Makhdūm - Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
    • Date: 1720
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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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    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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    [Missal for the Divine Liturgy of the Armenian Apostolic Church] "Dzeramb Meghapart Marzvantsʻu Tēr Eghiay Eritsʻu skhal banitsʻ kam amotʻu zdzer otatsʻn hoghew pʻoshi chʻem arzhani zanuns yisheal"--Colophon. Amasya İli (Turkey). Bolorgir, black and read ink; Illustrations: pen-drawn decorations; chapters have decorated first initials. Columns: text in two columns has 22 lines: 6.5x29.5 cm.; borders are ruled in several line and in several colors. Leaf one has an illustration of the Crucifixion. Leaf two...
    • Contributor: Armenian Church - Eghia
    • Date: 1722
    • Resource: - 48 pages

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    Munyat al-muṣallī wa-ghunyat al-mubtadī
    منية المصلي وغنية المبتدي Catalog Record Only
    Treatise on prayer.
    • Contributor: Baker, Richard Brown - Kāshgharī, Sadīd Al-Dīn - Baker Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1729
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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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    Derekh Ets Hayyim Large Ashkenazic semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid [דרך עץ חיים] עץ חיים Derekh Ets Hayyim, Meir Poppers' redaction of the writings of Hayyim Vital. There are a few errors in the original Hebrew foliation: fols. 9, 56 and 100 were skipped; fols. 110 and 338 were each repeated. On this redaction of Derekh Ets Hayyim, divided into 49 chapters or "gates" in...
    • Date: 1726

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