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Archives of Discrimination Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Alfrid Bustanov, Shamil Shikhaliev
The present article traces the history of multiple private and state archives in Daghestan. Such collections bear imprints of competition between particular individuals and factions. As we shall see, various parties exploited the cultural resources available to them in order to project their subjectivities onto the textual and material evidence. Shifts in cultural values and fashions, together with
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The Frontispiece as Patron’s Statement Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Markus Ritter
The Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-ṣafāʾ wa-khullān al-wafāʾ (Epistles of the Brethren of Purity and Loyal Friends), copied in Baghdad in 686/1287 and kept in the Süleymaniye Library in Istanbul, is known for its double page frontispiece, headed by the names of the authors and the book title, and painted with an image of debating scholars surrounded by luxurious architecture [Fig. 1]. The copy features diagrams
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Sikujua’s Writing of Muyaka’s Poetry in Arabic Script Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Alex de Voogt
Muyaka’s poetry as it is known today was first recorded in the 1890s, mainly written down by Mwalimu Sikujua who used Arabic script as well as an adapted Swahili-Arabic writing system to document the language. Sikujua’s versatility when using the Arabic script as well as his use of variant spellings suggest a writing practice that embraces rather than avoids orthographic variation. His use of diacritics
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Ṭāhir Īshān’s Unknown Autograph Manuscripts Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Aziza Shanazarova
The current article examines autograph manuscripts of three little-known Sufi doctrinal works of the eighteenth-century Central Asian Sufi, Ṭāhir Īshān, a native of Khwarazm. Ṭāhir Īshān is better known as the author of the eighteenth-century Naqshbandī hagiographical compendium Tadhkira-yi Ṭāhir Īshān, which was completed in 1160/1747. The works in question, entitled Ḥujjat al-sālikīn va rāḥat al-ṭālibīn
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The Arts of the Lance and Other Mamluk Manuscripts in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Kinga Dévényi
This article provides a description of an Arabic manuscript found among the few manuscripts from the Mamluk period that are kept at the Oriental Collection of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. The manuscript contains a work on the arts of the lance by Ḥusām al-Dīn Lāǧīn al-Ṭarābulusī (d. 738/1338), one of the foremost experts in furūsiyya and, more particularly, on the topic
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Le Kitāb Tanbīh al-anām d’Ibn ʿAẓẓūm (m. 960/1553) Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Sébastien Garnier
Résumé La Bibliothèque Municipale de Dijon conserve un manuscrit ancien du Kitāb Tanbīh al-anām d’Ibn ʿAẓẓūm (m. 960/1553). Bréviaire apparenté à la littérature dévotionnelle et postérieur au parangon fondateur du genre, les Dalāʾil al-ḫayrāt (scr. 857-862 ?/1453-1458 ?) d’al-Ǧazūlī (m. 869 ?/1465 ?), son étude offre un contrepoint ifrīqiyen nouveau. L’exemplaire que nous présentons comporte en outre
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A Manuscript Witness of Cultural Activity in Mongol Baghdad Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Bruno De Nicola
This article focuses on MS Leiden Or. 95, which contains a version of the Ḥall mushkilāt al-Ishārāt by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (d. 672/1273), copied apparently in 1272 CE. This article explores the paratextual evidence present in the manuscript in order to reconstruct the history of the book and investigate aspects of cultural life in Mongol and post-Mongol Baghdad. It is an attempt, based on manuscript
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Arabe 330b Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Barış Ince
This article is an examination of the vocalised quranic manuscript MS Paris, BnF Arabe 330b, currently found at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The vocalisation system in the manuscript clearly reflects two canonical readings, namely those of Ḥamzah and Warsh, and has tremendous consistency with how medieval Islamic scholarship described these readings. This was established through a juxtaposition
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A Corpus of Illuminated Qurʾāns from Coastal East Africa Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Zulfikar Hirji
This article examines a little-known corpus of illuminated Qurʾān manuscripts that were produced between ca. 1750–ca. 1850 in the Swahili city-states of Pate, Siyu, and Faza on Pate Island in the Lamu archipelago (Kenya). Now dispersed in collections in Kenya, Tanzania, Oman, the UK, and the USA, the manuscripts have many distinctive features: decorative frontispieces, sūra titles, basmalas, and division
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Editing MSS Leiden Or. 14.545 b–c Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Abdallah El-Khatib
This article provides a description and edition of MSS Leiden Or. 14.545 b–c. Radiocarbon dating (14C dating) pinpoints the manuscript to an early period in Islamic history, and this is affirmed by its palaeographical and codicological features. As a result of its dating, it has received considerable attention from scholars and the media. This study confirms the manuscript’s direct relationship with
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Mamlūk Qurʾān Manuscripts Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Jan Just Witkam, Marijn van Putten
The present article focuses on additional texts or appendices by scribes to three Qurʾānic manuscripts of the Mamlūk era. These appendices were accidentally found in the collections of Dār al-Kutub al-Miṣriyyah in Cairo: in Maṣāḥif 81 dating from 734/1334; Maṣāḥif 94 from 830/1427; and Maṣāḥif 143 also from 879/1474–1475. The three manuscripts are one-volume luxury copies of the Qurʾān. The subjects
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The Qurʾānic Codices and Fragments Ascribed to Imām ʿAlī and Other Shīʿa Imāms Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Morteza Karimi-Nia
For nearly a thousand years, certain copies of the Qurʾān have been ascribed to such prominent Islamic figures as Imām ʿAlī and other Shīʿa Imāms. Although no evidence of ascription is found from the first three centuries, nearly two hundred copies of such manuscripts and fragments are found today around the world, especially in Shiite areas. After a historical overview of the phenomenon and classification
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Revived Leaves Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Mahdi Sahragard
In 1969, circa 1,000 fragments of the Qur’an were found in the space between two ceiling covers in the Holy Shrine of Imam Riḍā in Mashhad, Iran. Some of these were among the oldest Qur’ans produced in Iran. Three volumes in that cache are the only remaining parts of a fourteen-volume Qur’an, copied in Ramaḍān 327/939, endowed to the Holy Shrine by Kishvād b. Amlās. The volume is in vertical format
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Scattered Leaves Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Mahdi Sahragard
A number of folios of a grand Qurʾan, known as the Qurʾan of Bāysunghur, are preserved in collections across the world. No thorough research has been carried out on this manuscript due to the fact that the folios of this Qurʾan—the largest of the Islamic era—are scattered. Consequently, many points about the early details, the scribe and the history of the manuscript remain vague. Endowed between the
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The Monumental Qur’āns of Sultan Shaʿbān: The Apogee of the Mamluk Arts of the Book Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Adeline Laclau
This article focuses on the seven monumental Qur’āns made during the reign of Sultan al-Ashraf Shaʿbān II (r. 1363–1378), considered to be the masterpieces of the Mamluk arts of the book. These are MSS Cairo, Dār al-Kutub al-Miṣriyya Raṣīd 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, and 54. The aim of this study is to deepen our knowledge of the manufacturing system and the context of production of these manuscripts through
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On the History of the Princeton University Library Collection of Islamic Manuscripts Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2022-09-28 Garrett Davidson
Princeton University’s collection of Islamic manuscripts is by far the largest collection of its kind in the Western hemisphere and one of the most valuable collections in the world. It consists of some 13,500 manuscripts with diverse origins in public and private libraries from the Western to the Eastern Islamic lands. The collection is not only notable for its size and diversity, but also its quality
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Paul Sbath’s Manuscript Library Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2022-09-28 Celeste Gianni
This article concerns the manuscript collection of the Syrian Catholic priest Paul Sbath (Aleppo, 1887–1945), who is regarded by some as one of the twentieth century’s most controversial collectors. This is primarily due to the mysterious circumstances under which he obtained and consolidated his collection of 1,325 manuscripts, part of which he sold to the Vatican Library in 1927. Through a close
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التملّكات في مخطوط ”المنزع البديع في تجنيس أساليب البديع“ لأبي محمد القاسم السجلماسي (بعد ٧٠٤هـ) Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2022-09-28 أحمد السعيدي
المستخلص حاول المقال إنجاز دراسة كوديكولوجية في مخطوط موجود بمكتبة برلين هو ”المنزع البديع في تجنيس أساليب البديع“ لأبي محمد القاسم السجلماسي (توفي بعد ٧٠٤هـ)، من خلال دراسة ظهرية المخطوط والتركيز أساسا على خوراج النص والتملكات، وعددها ستة منها الواضح والمبتور والمطموس بسبب ترميم يدوي بلصق الورق أو بسبب التشطيب على المكتوب. لقد بيّنت الدراسة نصوص التملكات ورحلة المخطوط بين دمشق والقاهرة وتونس
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An Amulet Scroll from Erzurum from August D. Żaba’s Kurdish Collection in the Manuscript Department, National Library of Russia, Kurd. 51 Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Khanna Omarkhali
This article presents an edition, translation, and study of the amulet scroll Kurd. 51 from the Kurdish collection of August D. Żaba that was presented by him to the Manuscript Department of the National Library of Russia (NLR) in St Petersburg in 1868 along with 52 manuscripts and lithographs. The amulet contains passages in Arabic and Persian and was found, according to Żaba, among the Kurds in Erzurum
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Islamic Palm-Leaf Manuscripts from Lombok Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Dick van der Meij
The religious background of manuscripts and texts from Lombok is not always certain. Nevertheless, in view of the overwhelming Muslim population on the island, many texts in manuscripts are inspired by Islam. Most manuscripts in Lombok are written on palm leaves, and these lontar manuscripts used to be kept by the people in great numbers, especially among the Waktu Telu, Muslims who adhere to a local
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Towards the Perfect Jung Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Mohammad Karimi Zanjani Asl, David Durand-Guédy
This article presents a set of four multitext manuscripts made in Tabriz during the reign of the Safavid Shāh Sulaymān (r. 1666–1694). The texts are organized around one core abstruse text (lughuz) penned by the patron of the work, the vizier of Azarbayjan and mustawfī al-mamālik, Ẓahīr al-Dīn Ibrāhīm (d. 1102/1690). Analysis of these manuscripts, copied successively over a period of 12 years by the
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Two New Arabic Business Letters from the Berlin Collection Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Ahmad Kamal
There is a high percentage of letters among Arabic documentary material. The vast majority of them remain unpublished, however. This article presents the edition, translation, and commentary of two as yet unpublished business letters currently kept at the Egyptian Museum in Berlin. The first was sent to solicit help with some calculations and to stress the importance of the results (P.Berl.inv. 8582)
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Islamic Manuscripts from Aceh in the British Library Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Annabel Teh Gallop, Oman Fathurahman
Aceh has long been renowned as a centre of Islamic scholarship, and some of the most famous Malay texts were composed in this area of north Sumatra. However, despite an abundance of philological and literary studies of texts from Aceh, little attention has yet been paid to the materiality of the manuscript culture of the region. A small collection of 18 manuscripts from Aceh now in the British Library
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On the Early Collections of the Works of Ġiyāṯ al-Dīn Jamšīd al-Kāšī Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Osama Eshera
Ġiyāṯ al-Dīn Jamšīd al-Kāšī (d. 832/1429), also known as Kāšānī, was a prominent astronomer and mathematician in the 9th/15th century and was a central figure at the observatory in Samarqand under the patronage of Ulugh Beg (r. 811–853/1409–1449), the Timurid ruler of Transoxiana. Kāšī’s works have frequently been copied and circulated in bound collective volumes, the earliest of which was produced
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Place Names in Colophons and Notes of Yemeni Manuscripts Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2022-01-13 Christoph Rauch
This article points to some geographical and historical conditions of scholarship and manuscript culture in Zaydi Yemen. The place of copying is only sporadically given in the colophons of Arabic manuscripts. This is confirmed by a systematic investigation into the catalogues of the Berlin collection presented here. In particular, this article discusses the presence of place names in the colophons
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Saleroom Fiction versus Provenance: Historicizing Manuscripts via Their Marginal and Material Logic (Schøyen Fragments 1776) Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2022-01-13 Konrad Hirschler
This article examines a group of twelve fragments in different languages and different scripts previously held in the Schøyen collection in London and Oslo. After they first emerged on the market in 1993, these fragments received colourful hypothetical and/or fictional pseudo-provenances. However, a consideration of the material logic of these parchment fragments (including folding lines and sewing
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What’s in a Seal?: Identification and Interpretation of ʿAbd al-Bāqī Ibn al-ʿArabī’s (d. 971/1564) Seal and Its Function Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2022-01-13 Boris Liebrenz
It was only during the Ottoman period, beginning in 1517, that seals gained popularity in the Arab world as a means to document people’s interactions with books. Some seals came alone while others accompanied handwritten notes. Some spelled out their purpose clearly through formulations such as “min kutub”, “hāḏā mā waqafa” or the like; others contained only pious formulae and a name. But even the
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نصوصٌ جديدة في صناعة الحبر والمداد: من مخطوطة كتاب التذكرة لقطب الدين المكي النهروالي Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2022-01-13 المهدي عيد الرواضية
المستخلص تعرض هذه المقالة لنصوص تُنشر لأول مرة عن صناعة الأحبار وطريقة تركيبها باستخدام المواد الأساسية المختلفة، إضافة لبعض الوصفات المتصلة بالكتابة على المخطوط ومحو الكتابة، مما ورد في مخطوطة كتاب «التذكرة» لقطب الدين النهروالي (ت ٩٩٠هـ/ ١٥٨٢م)، وهي نماذج جيدة تُضاف إلى ما وصلنا من تركيبات الحبر وصناعته. وتهدف هذه المقالة إلى إطلاع الباحثين على الوصفات التي أوردها النهروالي، والتعريف بها
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The Birth of a Successful Prayer Book: The Manuscript Tradition of the Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt in North Africa Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2021-11-11 Hiba Abid
The vast project to reconstruct a history and geography of the spread of the Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt necessarily involves looking into the beginnings of the prayerbook’s manuscript transmission. Composed in Morocco before 869/1465, the prayerbook was already known in the Eastern Maghreb from the mid-11th/17th century. It then reached Turkey and the rest of the Mashriq. After that it found its way to Central
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The Dalāʾil al-khayrāt in Central Asia and Eastern Turkestan: Some Research Leads Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2021-11-11 Alexandre Papas
Recent discoveries and overlooked documents help us to understand the spread of the Dalāʾil al-khayrāt in a region stretching from the Tatar lands to the Tarim Basin, passing Bukhara and Kokand along the way. This paper by no means aims to provide a historical survey of al-Jazūlī’s prayer book in Central Asia. Rather, I introduce some leads for research on the basis of several manuscripts. A first
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Illustrated and Illuminated Manuscripts of the Dalāʾil al-khayrāt from Southeast Asia Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2021-11-11 Farouk Yahya
Illustrated and illuminated manuscripts of the Dalāʾil al-khayrāt from Southeast Asia are an invaluable resource for our understanding of the painting tradition of this region. The many copies now kept in various institutions attest to its popularity, while the lavish treatment often given to manuscripts indicates the high regard local communities had for this text. The types of images featured are
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In Writing and in Sound: The Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt in the Late Ottoman Empire Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2021-11-11 Sabiha Göloğlu
Copies of Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt (Proofs of Good Deeds) by the Moroccan Sufi saint Muḥammad b. Sulaymān al-Jazūlī (d. 870/1465) were in high demand in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. This required producing manuscripts in large numbers and, later, printing the text. These mostly lithographic copies and corpora of the Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt, when combined with references to biographical
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Medina and Mecca Revisited: The Manuscripts of the Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt by al-Ǧazūlī and Their Ornamental Addition Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2021-11-11 Jan Just Witkam
The illustrations of Medina and Mecca in al-Ǧazūlī’s prayer book Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt have drawn the attention of many scholars, who have come up with different interpretations. In the present article, a subgroup within the Maghribī manuscripts of that text is defined for the first time: luxury manuscripts that date from the 11–12th/17–18th centuries and that were mostly produced for important owners
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Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Jazūlī and the Place of Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt in Jazūlite Sufism Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2021-11-11 Vincent J. Cornell
This article discusses the career of Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Jazūlī (d. 869/1465), his compilation of Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt, and the place of this work in Jazūlite Sufism. The teachings of the Jazūliyya Sufi order emphasized intense spiritual devotion to the Prophet Muḥammad as a means of access to the Divine. As a manual of prayers and invocations on behalf of the Prophet, Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt became
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Paths of Prayers in Ottoman North Africa: The Met’s Dalāʾil al-khayrāt 2017.301 in Context Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2021-11-11 Deniz Beyazit
This article discusses The Met’s unpublished Dalāʾil al-khayrāt—2017.301—(MS New York, TMMA 2017.301), together with a group of comparable manuscripts. The earliest known dated manuscript within the corpus, it introduces several iconographic elements that are new to the Dalāʾil, and which compare with the traditions developing in the Mashriq and the Ottoman world in particular. The article discusses
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The Regional Recitations of al-Jazūlī’s Dalāʾil al-Ḫayrāt as Reflected in Its Manuscript Tradition Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2021-11-11 Marijn van Putten
Muḥammad al-Jazūlī’s Dalāʾil al-Ḫayrāt is one of the most popular and widespread Islamic prayer books in the Sunni Islamic world; consequently, most library collections around the world have many copies of this manuscript. Despite its prolific written form, it is its recitation that should probably be considered the most prominent expression of the text. This paper undertakes a careful analysis of
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A Technical Study of a 17th-Century Manuscript of Muḥammad Bin Sulaymān al-Jazūlī’s Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2021-11-11 Yana van Dyke
In the spring of 2017, the Islamic Art Department, within The Metropolitan Museum of Art (TMMA), acquired an Islamic prayer book, the Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt by Muḥammad bin Sulaymān al-Jazūlī. This paper discusses the findings of a technical study undertaken in the museum’s Sherman Fairchild Center for the Conservation of Works of Art on Paper, focusing on the materials and techniques of one manuscript
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Egyptian Arabic Proverbs in the Cairo Genizah Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2021-04-30 Mohamed A.H. Ahmed
The Cairo Genizah is a fundamental source for the study of Jewish History and culture in Medieval and pre-modern times. Moreover, the importance of the Cairo Genizah to Arabic studies should not be underestimated. This article investigates a previously unpublished fragment that features a selection of Egyptian Arabic proverbs written in Hebrew script, i.e. Judaeo-Arabic, which have been kept for centuries
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Madd as Orthoepy Rather Than Orthography Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2021-04-30 Marijn van Putten
This article explores the function and distribution of the maddah sign throughout the history of the Islamic manuscript tradition. It demonstrates that, to date, descriptions have not adequately described its use, and it shows that rather than being a part of Classical Arabic orthography, medieval sources clearly indicate that the maddah sign was specifically used to express an orthoepic feature of
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A New Source for the Study of Avicenna’s Safavid Reception: MS Cambridge, University Library, Or. 658: A Philosophical Anthology from the School of Iṣfahān? Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2021-04-30 Silvia Di Vincenzo
MS Cambridge, University Library, Or. 658 is a collection of eleven texts transmitted in anonymous and untitled form whose precise content has to date remained obscure. On closer inspection, however, the manuscript turns out to be a so-far neglected witness of some authentic and pseudepigraph works of, among others, Avicenna (d. 427/1037) and Mullā Ṣadrā (d. 1050/1640–1641). This paper aims to provide
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Patronage and Productions of Paintings and Albums in 18th-Century Awadh Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2021-04-30 Isabelle Imbert
During the 18th century, Faizābād and Lucknow became strategic centres of painting production in Northern India. Encouraged by the patronage of European collectors, but most probably by unnamed Indian patrons as well, the region experienced an intense period marked by the large number of albums and paintings in circulation. Based on the in-depth analysis of a selection of albums, paintings, and manuscripts
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Reflections on Editing Kitāb al-Jihād of ʿAlī ibn Ṭāhir al-Sulamī (d. 500/1106) Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2021-04-30 Niall Christie
This article presents some reflections on the author’s experience of editing the manuscript of Kitāb al-Jihād, by the Damascene religious scholar and preacher ʿAlī ibn Ṭāhir al-Sulamī (d. 500/1106). This includes consideration of the history of the manuscript, the challenges that it presented to the editor, features of the manuscript, and some resources that proved to be helpful for the author’s work
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From Djerba to Warjalān: Manuscript Letters in Private Ibadi Libraries and Their Importance for the Study of Communication among the Maghribi Ibadi Communities Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2021-01-21 Mohamed Neji
This article focuses on letters in private Ibadi libraries and their importance for understanding the primary means of communication among Ibadi communities in the premodern Maghrib. Using the example of a letter from the 7th/13th-century Ibadi Shaykh Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Ṣidghiyānī from the island of Djerba (Tunisia) to the Ibadis of Warjalān (Algeria), it seeks to highlight the importance of the archive
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Ibadi Copyists in the Mzab Valley, Algeria (9th–10th/15th–16th Century) Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2021-01-21 Aissa Hadj Mahammed
This article examines the circulation of manuscripts in the Mzab Valley in southern Algeria during the 9th–10th/15th–16th centuries in an attempt to identify the most prominent copyists in the region. The primary aim of the paper is to highlight the importance of manuscripts for the Mzab’s Ibadi Muslim community in this period and to demonstrate its impact on the intellectual and cultural life of the
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Ibadi Manuscripts in a European Collection: The Kitāb al-Barbariyya and the Private Papers of Auguste Bossoutrot (1856–1937) Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2021-01-21 Vermondo Brugnatelli
Within the framework of studies concerning the importance of European manuscript collections for Ibadi history, this article aims at retracing the history of an archive put together by the French scholar Auguste Bossoutrot (1856–1937). This archive gathered a quantity of materials on the Arabic and Berber languages collected during his life. In particular, some of the manuscripts contain parts of a
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La production des actes de waqf ibadites et autres en Tunisie à l’ époque moderne Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2021-01-21 Mohamed Merimi
Résumé L’ article vise à passer en revue et à comprendre la culture ibadite de la population de Djerba dans le domaine de la production des actes de waqf à l’ époque moderne. À l’ origine, les résidents de Djerba utilisaient des contrats de waqf oraux et coutumiers conclus au nom de la « congrégation des fidèles de la mosquée » et sous le titre du waqf général. Leurs contrats de waqf ont évolué dans
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مجموعة المخطوطات الإباضيّة بمكتبة الباسيّين بجربة: مقاربة كوديكولوجيّة Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2021-01-21 د. علي البوجديديّ
الملخص يمكن أن تُسهم دراسة مخطوطات الباسي الإباضيّة منها، رغم ما شابها من ضياع، في إعادة تأريخ المكتبة، كما يمكنها أن تلقي ضوءا على تاريخ العائلة في علاقتها بالإباضيّة مدّا وجزرا. فضلا عن أهميّة دراسة المجموعات الإباضيّة في الكشف عن حركة صور تلقّي العلوم والمعارف وتبادلها داخل الفضاء الجزيريّ وتأثرها بالفضاءات المتاخمة لها وعن علاقات الجوار والتّثاقف بين إباضيي جربة مع غيرهم مغربا ومشرقا، وتشي
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‘An Arabic Qurʾān, That You Might Understand’: Qurʾān Fragments in the T-S Arabic Cairo Genizah Collection Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2020-10-29 Magdalen M. Connolly, Nick Posegay
The Arabic-script Qurʾān fragments of the Cairo genizah collections have not yet drawn much interest among Arabic and genizah scholars. This paper aims to bring them to the attention of a broader audience by presenting the palaeographic features (§ 3) and vocalisation systems (§ 4) of eleven Arabic-script Qurʾān fragments from the Cambridge University Library’s Taylor-Schechter Arabic collection. While
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Between the Foreign and the Familiar: A Qurʾan Manuscript and Its Later English Annotations at the East India Company Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2020-10-29 Zahra Kazani
A Qurʾan manuscript (British Library Add 5548–5551), attributed to fifteenth-century India, features a curious case of English annotations within its folios. The annotations take the form of interlinear translations superimposed onto its Persian counterpart. This article takes the contents of the English annotations and its physical placement within the body of the text as a platform to investigate
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Penser l’ écart dans la copie du texte coranique à l’ époque ottomane: Réflexions sur le muṣḥaf Ms 3642 conservé à la BM de Dijon Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2020-10-29 Sébastien Garnier
Résumé Sur le territoire français, les villes de province recèlent maints manuscrits en scripts orientaux encore assez peu exploités. Si ces documents n’ apportent guère de contenus nouveaux, ils peuvent nous renseigner sur les pratiques lettrées. La Bibliothèque municipale de Dijon conserve un exemplaire maghrébin du Coran d’ époque ottomane à plusieurs égards instructif. Notre communication fournit
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A Rediscovered Almoravid Qurʾān in the Bavarian State Library, Munich (Cod. arab. 4) Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2020-10-29 Umberto Bongianino
This article examines and contextualizes a small Quranic manuscript, copied in al-Andalus in 533/1138–1139, whose importance has so far gone unrecognized. Among its many interesting features are: its early date; its lavish illumination; its colophon and the information contained therein; its system of notation and textual division; its use of different calligraphic styles, including Maghribī thuluth;
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A Dynamic History: MS Sinai, Arabic 151 in the Hands of Scribes, Readers, and Restorers Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2020-07-13 Vevian F. Zaki
This paper unfolds parts of the dynamic, yet mostly hidden, history of MS Sinai Arabic 151 based on its paleographical, codicological, paratextual, and textual features. Combining these aspects opens new horizons of research in the Arabic Bible manuscripts that had previously received attention limited solely to the text. MS Sinai, Ar. 151 is an intact manuscript containing the Pauline Epistles, Acts
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La cryptographie dans les manuscrits de la collection Lmūhūb Ūlaḥbīb Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2020-07-13 Djamel Eddine Mechehed
Résumé Nous présentons dans cet article les notes cryptographiques trouvées dans les manuscrits de la collection Lmūhūb Ūlaḥbīb, constituée vers le milieu du XIXème siècle à Ait Ūrṯilane en petite Kabylie (Algérie). Ce travail se fonde sur une analyse minutieuse de ces manuscrits d’ auteurs algériens et andalous de périodes diverses, comprises entre le XVème et le XIXème siècle.
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The Qurʾān Encrypted: A Unique Qurʾānic Manuscript in Cipher Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2020-07-13 Arianna D’Ottone Rambach
This article (re-)considers a unique Qurʾān manuscript (MS London, SOAS, 12217) in ciphered characters (Ar. al-taʿmiya), reminiscent of the ring letters of the Graeco-Egyptian tradition (Brillenbuchstaben). The case of this Qurʾān manuscript offers an opportunity to decode (Ar. istikhrāj al-muʿammà) a cryptographed text, to date and localize a very special Quranic codex, and to investigate the history
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The Chamberlain’s Sessions: Audience Certificates in a Baghdad Manuscript of al-Ḫarāʾiṭī’s Iʿtilāl al-qulūb (Forschungsbibliothek Gotha, Ms. Orient. A 627) Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2020-04-29 Tilman Seidensticker
This article is devoted to thirteen Arabic audience certificates (samāʿāt) that originate in Baghdad in the time from Rabīʿ I 486/April 1093 to Ṣafar 501/September–October 1107. The analysis presents the attending master, the chamberlain Ibn al-ʿAllāf (died 505/1111), and provides an overview of the heterogenous composition of the seven reading circles represented in the certificates. It scrutinizes
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The History and Provenance of the Unique Dustūr al-munaǧǧimīn Manuscript, BnF Arabe 5968: A Re-assessment Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2020-04-29 Boris Liebrenz
This article offers a re-assessment for the history of a unicum text, the Dustūr al-munaǧǧimīn, preserved in the manuscript Paris, BnF Arabe 5968. Based on a re-reading of the manuscript notes found therein, previous misreadings are corrected and the book’s trajectory is sketched through owners in Damascus, Bursa, and Istanbul. The article offers methodological suggestions for those interested in incorporating
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A New Look at Ṭūsī’s Awṣāf al-ashrāf: The Preamble of MS Leiden Or. 683/1 Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2020-04-29 Joep Lameer
It is commonly stated that Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī’s (d. 672/1274) short treatise on mysticism, the Awṣāf al-ashrāf, was written for the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the Īlkhānid dynasty in Iran, Shams al-Dīn al-Juwaynī (in office 661–683/1262–1284). This is because all the surviving copies of this work were thus far believed to possess the same preamble featuring an elaborate dedication to him. The preamble
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A Note on a Note: The Inscription in ‘the Leiden Manuscript’ of Turkic and Mongolic Glossaries Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2020-04-29 Yoshio Saitô
The so-called ‘Leiden Manuscript’, the collection of Turkic and Mongolic glossaries titled Kitāb Majmūʿ Turjumān Turkī wa-ʿAjamī wa-Muğalī wa-Fārsī, has a yet undeciphered inscription on f. 75b. In this article, the author identifies the script of the inscription as a type of Coptic cursive numerals called ḥurūf al-zimām, which was primarily in use in Egypt for accounting purposes. The consecutive
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دلالات المصطلحات الواردة في مجالس السماع والقراءة في المخطوطات العربية Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2020-04-29 د. سعيد الجوماني
الملخص تناولت هذه الدراسة توضيح معاني ودلالات مصطلحات تكرر ظهورها في قيود السماعات والقراءات في المخطوطات العربية، وهي: مصطلح السماع حضوراً، ومصطلح السماع نقلاً/ أو منقولاً، ومصطلح السماع أصلاً، ومصطلح السماع أصلاً ونقلاً، ومصطلح إجازةً إن لم يكن سماعاً، ومصطلح القائمة وجمعها قوائم، ومصطلح وجهة. وبيَّنت أن بعض القيود المثبتة على النسخة تشكل عائلة واحدة، كل قيدٍ منها يُفضي إلى الآخر ويفسره. وأنَّ
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Index of the Manuscripts Mentioned in Volumes 1–10 (2010–2019) Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2019-11-01 Jan Just Witkam