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
Collection of three Arabic folktales from "Alf laylah wa-laylah" (Arabian nights), as follows: 1. "Sīrat Sayf al-Mulūk wa-Badīʻat al-Jamāl" (folios 1a-22a), Tale of Sayf al-Mulūk and Badīʻat al-Jamāl. 2. "Ḥikāyat Faras al-Abnūs" (folios 22a-37a), Tale...
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
Ibn ʻAbbād, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, 1332 or 1333-1390 ابن عباد، محمد بن إبراهيم، 1332 or 1333-1390
Published / Created:
1717.
Call Number:
Hartford Seminary Arabic MSS 489
Image Count:
464
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
"Ghayth al-mawāhib al-ʻalīyah bi-Sharḥ al-Ḥikam al-ʻAṭāʼīyah" (also called "Sharḥ al-Nafazī ʻalá matn al-Sakandarī"), by Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAbbād al-Ḥimyarī al-Nafazī al-Rundī (1332 or 1333-1390.), a Ṣūfī and scholar from the city of Rundah (Ro...
Alternative Title:
Kitāb Sharḥ al-Ḥikam, Sharḥ al-Ḥikam al-ʻAṭāʼīyah, كتاب شرح الحكم, and شرح الحكم العطائية
Description:
In Arabic.
Subject (Name):
Ibn ʻAbbād, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, 1332 or 1333-1390. and Ibn ʻAṭāʼ Allāh, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1309.
Subject (Topic):
Aphorisms and apothegms, Mysticism, Shādhilīyah, and Sufism
Ibn al-Wakīl, Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad, -1719, author ابن الوكيل، يوسف بن محمد، -1719، author
Published / Created:
[1736?]
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 258
Image Count:
15
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript, on paper, containing Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Wakīl's Irshād man naḥā ilá nawādir Juḥā, anecdotes concerning the simpleton Juḥā.
Description:
Copied about 1736.
Subject (Name):
Nasreddin, Hoca, active 13th century.
Subject (Topic):
Fools and jesters in literature and Arabic wit and humor
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 ...
Manuscript, on paper, containing al-Suyūṭī's Itḥāf al-nubalāʼ bi-akhbār al-thuqalāʼ, a collection of pieces in prose and verse dealing with bores
Description:
Copied about 1736.
Subject (Topic):
Boredom in literature, Arabic poetry, and Arabic prose literature
Abū Nuʻaym al-Iṣbahānī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 948-1038 أبو نعيم الإصبهاني، أحمد بن عبد الله، 948-1038
Published / Created:
1765.
Call Number:
Hartford Seminary Arabic MSS 1072
Image Count:
11
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
"Juzʼ fī faḍl al-dīk", a treatise on the traits and virtues of the domestic rooster, by Abū Nuʻaym al-Iṣbahānī (Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 948-1038), a prolific author, a Ḥadīth scholar, a historian, a biographer, and frequent traveler, teacher of the well...
Description:
In Arabic.
Subject (Name):
Abū Nuʻaym al-Iṣbahānī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 948-1038.
