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7 works by 5 authors on the subjects of Religious biography, Meteorology, Islam, Arabic poetry, Theology, and Qasidas

MS. Thurston 5

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For the main catalogue entry, see: Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

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Title

7 works by 5 authors on the subjects of Religious biography, Meteorology, Islam, Arabic poetry, Theology, and Qasidas

Shelfmark

MS. Thurston 5

Language

Arabic

Contents

1. ff. 1r-66v Author: Ibn Ḥajar al-Haythamī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, ca. 1503-ca. 1566 Title: al-Khayrāt al-ḥisān fī manāqib Abī Ḥanīfah al-Nuʻmān
2. ff. 67r-69r Author: Anonymous Title: A work on the prediction of the weather for any year from the day of the week on which the 1st of Muḥarram falls
3. ff. 69v-72r Author: Kaydānī Kaydānī, Luṭf Allāh, al-Nasafī fl. c. 1349 Title: A treatise in eight chapters on the chief tenets of Islam [?= Brock, no. 3* “Abh. über die 5 Aḥkām”]
4. ff. 75v-81v Author: Anonymous Title: Eight poems, of which nos. 1-4 begin as follows: (1)(2)(3)(4)and 5-8 are short
5. ff. 93v-98v Author: Anonymous Title: A discussion of the question whether the Prophetʼs parents died as infidels
6. ff. 99v-104v Author: Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd, 1213?-1296? Title: Qaṣīdat al-Burdah
7. ff. 105r-107r Author: Ūshī, ʻAlī ibn ʻUthmān, 12th cent. Title: al-Qaṣīdah al-lāmīyah fī al-tawḥīd Title: Badʼ al-amālī

Form

codex

Physical extent

66 ff. 3 ff. 4 ff. 7 ff. 6 ff. 6 ff. 3 ff.

Provenance

Provenance unknown but not given by Thurston[see Summary Catalogue, 2.ii, 798-801].

Subject

Religious biography

Muḥammad, Prophet, d. 632--Poetry

Theology, Islamic

Arabic poetry

Qasidas

Meteorology--Early works to 1800

Islam--Doctrines

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  • Ibn Ḥajar al-Haythamī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, ca. 1503-ca. 1566

  • Kaydānī, Luṭf Allāh, al-Nasafī, fl. ca. 1349

  • Ibn Abī al-Wafāʼ

  • Ūshī, ʻAlī ibn ʻUthmān, fl. 12th century

  • Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd, ca. 1213-ca. 1296

  • Thurston, Willian

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