هدية الاخوان في شجرة الدخان / محمد مرتضى الحسيني.
Hadīyat al-ikhwān fī shajarat al-dukhān / Muḥammad Murtaḍá al-Ḥusaynī.
Murtaḍá al-Zabīdī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1732 or 1733-1791
مرتضى الزبيدي، محمد بن محمد، 1732 or 1733-1791
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Marginal notes and glosses. Inscriptions on title page. According to the ending, composed in 1191/1777.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 14 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (shield with a face-in-the-moon, roman-alphabet letters "AG") ; MS in fair condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed 1293 by ʻĪsá Muḥammad (fol. 14b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله ذي الفضل والاسان ... اما بعد فهذه نبذة صغيرة التمس مني تأليفها بعض الاخوان فيما يتعلق بشجرة الدخان ...
Colophon: م. على يد کاتبها الفقيرالى الله تعالى عيسى محمد عفي عنه آمين. سنة 1293
Smoking (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800
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Ownership signature: Ramaḍān (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
Jabartī, ʻAjāʼib al- Āthār (1297 AH), II, p. 204.
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A treatise on the tobacco plant, its characteristics and benefits and its status in Muslim law.
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