An amulet on long scroll of vellum or snake skin, rolled around a central axis into a silver hexagonal tube with a cap; niello etched in an arabesque pattern in gold, with three loops where a chain can go through, so that it can be worn as a necklace....
Manuscript, on paper, containing al-Suyūṭī's Bard al-ẓilāl fī takrīr al-suʼāl, a treatise on the questioning which is administered to the dead in their graves concerning their belief in the Prophet
Description:
Copied about 1736.
Subject (Topic):
Death, Religious aspects, Islam, Future life, and Hadith
Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, 1404-1465 جزولي، محمد بن سليمان، -1465
Published / Created:
18th century.
Call Number:
Arabic MSS suppl. 617
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
A well-known collection of prayers and devotions to the Prophet Muḥammad, by Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Jazūlī, a Maghribī Muslim scholar and well-known Sufi of the Shadhilīyah Sufi order, of Berber decent, who had many devotees called "Jazūlīy...
Alternative Title:
Dalāʼil al-khayrāt 880-02, Kitāb Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa-shawāriq al-anwār fī al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-Nabī al-mukhtār, دلائل الخيرات 240-02/r, and كتاب دلائل الخيرات وشوارق الأنوار في الصلاة على النبي المختار
Description:
In Arabic.
Subject (Name):
Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, 1404-1465., Muḥammad, Prophet, -632, and Masjid al-Nabawī al-Sharīf
Subject (Topic):
Islam, Kaʻbah (Mecca, Saudi Arabia), Prayer, and Shādhilīyah
A collection of Islamic prayers, invocations and decorations, as follows: 1. Part of an invocation in Ottoman Turkish and Arabic (folio 1a). The first leaf seems to be missing. 2. Asmāʼ Allāh al-ḥusná (The 99 most beautiful names of God), written ...
An anonymous treatise on the Arab conquest of North Africa under the leadership of ʻUqbah ibn ʻĀmir (died 678), a companion of the Prophet Muḥammad who became the governor of Egypt and died there. The present manuscript is the first book (al-sifr al...
Sanūsī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, approximately 1427-approximately 1490 سنوسي، محمد بن يوسف، حوالي 1427-حوالي 1490
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 231
Image Count:
44
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Commentary on the author's ʻAqīdat ahl al-tawḥīd al-ṣughrá (tract on the principles of faith). The work ends on leaf 19, and is followed by other pieces
Alternative Title:
Tawḥīd ahl al-ʻirfān wa-maʻrifat Allāh wa-Rasūlihi bi-al-dalīl wa-al-burhān and توحيد أهل العرفان ومعرفة الله ورسوله بالدليل والبرهان
Description:
Also known as: Tawḥīd ahl al-ʻirfān wa-maʻrifat Allāh wa-rasūlihi bi-al-dalīl wa-al-burhān (Ahlwardt, Brockelmann); supplied by a modern hand inside front cover: Tawḥīd ahl al-ʻirfān.
Subject (Name):
Sanūsī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, approximately 1427-approximately 1490.
Collection of three treatises, as follows: 1. Tuḥfat al-adīb fī al-radd ʻalá ahl al-ṣalīb (folios 1a-34b), also called Tuḥfat al-arīb fī al-radd ʻalá ahl al-ṣalīb, a polemic against Christians and the doctrines of Christianity, by ʻAbd All...
Description:
In Arabic.
Subject (Name):
Turmeda, Anselm, 1352-1432?
Subject (Topic):
Christianity, Devil, Islam, and Folk literature, Arabic
