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Subject(s)

• Muḥammad Prophet -632—Poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī -680—Poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Adam (Biblical figure)—Islamic interpretations—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Jabbārīyah [Browse]
• جبارية [Browse]
• Qurʼan Sūrat al-Fātiḥah [Browse]
• Astrology, Arab—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Calendars—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• God (Islam)—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Hadith—Texts—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islam—Prayers and devotions—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic magic—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Magic squares—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic poetry, Arabic—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Prayer—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Prophets in the Qurʼan—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Talismans—Islamic countries—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Contains

• Ḥaysūbī, Abū Maqraʻ. Tarjīz bi-al-ḥisāb. [Browse]
• حيسوبي، ابو مقرع. ترجيز بالحساب. [Browse]
• Awjalī, Muḥammad al-Ṣāliḥ ibn Salīm, active approximately 17th century- Dalīl al-ʻaqāʼid li-kashf asrār ṣifāt al-wāḥid. [Browse]
• اوجلي، محمد الصالح بن سليم. دليل العقائد لكشف اسرار صفات الواحد. [Browse]
• Barnāwī, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr. Niẓām al-shuhūr al-ʻarabī wa-al-ʻajamī. [Browse]
• برناوي، محمد بن ابي بكر. نظام الشهور العربي والعجمي. [Browse]

Notes

• Ms. leaves.
• Physical description: Written in maghribī script in brown and black inks on laid paper of a variety of sizes. Rubrication and catchwords; some marginalia and vocalization. Some leaves are dampstained in the margins. Numerous charts and illustrations.

Binding note

Contemporary loose leather covers.

Language note

Arabic and Hausa

Contents

• 1. Kitāb al-ʻIshrīnīyāt (fol. 65a). 65 leaves. A versified apologetic tract. Copied by Ibrāhīm Khalīl ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad (fol. 65a).
• 2. al-Tarjīz bi-al-ḥisāb (fol. 1b) / Abū Maqraʻ al-Ḥaysūbī. 10 leaves. An astrological tract.
• 3. Kitāb al-Farāʼid (fol. 1a). 8 leaves. A versified tract on the basic obligations in Islam, in a Hausa dialect. Copied by Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Salāmah (fol. 8b).
• 4. Dalīl al-ʻaqāʼid li-kashf asrār ṣifāt al-wāḥid (fol. 2a) / Muḥammad al-Ṣāliḥ ibn Salīm al-Awjalī. 3 leaves. Versified treatise on the nature of God; incomplete.
• 5. Niẓām al-shuhūr al-ʻarabī wa-al-ʻajamī wa-ghayrihā mimmā yanfaʻuhum bihi (fol. 1a) / Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Barnāwī. 4 leaves. A short versified text on the Muslim and Christian calendars and astrology; with a chart of the zodiac. Poem completed Shaʻbān 1210 AH (April 1796) (fol. 3b-4a); followed by an unidentified poem on the Prophet Muḥammad.
• 6. Ḍawʼ al-muṣallī yaḥwī qaḍāʼ mā fāta wa-ʻilm al-sahw (fol. 1b). 4 leaves. Anonymous urjūzah on ways to make up missed prayers.
• 7. [Urjūzah in praise of Muḥammad's grandson Ḥusayn]. 7 leaves.
• 8. Kitāb al-Iḥtilāj (fol. 1a). 8 leaves. Tract on the parts of Adam's body.
• 9. [Incomplete unidentified text]. 7 leaves.
• 10. Qaḍāʼ al-daʻwah al-musammá Jabbārīyah bi-duʻaʼ al-ʻaẓīmah (fol. 1a). 5 leaves. The Jabbārīyah supplication preceded by a short discussion of its benefits.
• 11. Masʼalah ʻan shaykhinā ʻUthman. 2 leaves.
• 12. [Poem, extracts from the Qurʼān, and magic squares]. 3 leaves.
• 13. [Supplication]. 4 leaves.
• 14. [Supplication]. 2 leaves.
• 15. [Magical and other unidentified texts]. 13 leaves.
• 16. [Magic squares and supplications]. 2 leaves.
• 17. [Supplication]. 2 leaves.
• 18. [Supplications and magical formulas]. 3 leaves.
• 19. [Magical formulas]. 2 leaves.
• 20. [Magic squares and supplications]. 2 leaves.
• 21. [Supplication and diagram of a talisman]. 1 leaf.
• 22. Faʼidat wird al-silsilah al-ghādirīyah [...] (fol. 1a). 1 leaf. Supplication, incomplete; verso contains the last page of a different text.
• 23. [Diagram of the prophets]. 1 leaf. A hierarchical diagram of the Islamic prophets using a 12-pointed star.
• 24. [Alphabetical poem]. 1 leaf. Each line begins with a different letter of the alphabet.
• 25. [Explanation of Sūrat al-Fātiḥah with diagram]. 1 leaf.
• 26. [Supplications]. 2 leaves.
• 27. [Magical formulas]. 1 leaf.
• 28. [Extracts from Koran and hadith, magic square, supplication, and other texts]. 5 leaves.
• 29. Dāliyat al-ḥurūf (fol. 2b). 2 leaves. Alphabetic poem.
• 30. ʻĀrin ʻan al-tamhīd (fol. 1b). 3 leaves. Poem on God's unity plus other brief texts.

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Source acquisition

Gift : Gardner Magic Project in memory of David A. Gardner, Princeton Class of 1969. AM 2005-71.

Other title(s)

• ʻIshrīnīyāt.
• عشرينيات.
• Farāʼid.
• فرائد.
• Ḍawʼ al-muṣallī yaḥwī qaḍāʼ mā fāta wa-ʻilm al-sahw.
• ضوء المصلي يحوي قضاء ما فات وعلم السهو.
• Iḥitilāj.
• احتلاج.
• Jabbārīyah.
• جبارية.
• Dāliyat al-ḥurūf.
• دالية الحروف.
• ʻĀrin ʻan al-tamhīd.
• عار عن التمهيد.
• Qurʼan. Selections
• قرآن.

OCLC

60356072

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