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    Ḥāshiyat al-ʻallāmah Naṣr al-Dīn al-Laqānī ʻalá Sharḥ Taṣrīf al-ʻIzzī li-Saʻd al-Dīn al-Taftāzānī
    حاشية ناصر الدين اللقاني على شرح تصريف العزي لسعد الدين التفتازاني     al-Laqānī's commentary on al-Taftāzānī's commentary on al-Taṣrīf al-ʻIzzī by al-Zanjānī on the conjugation of verbs.
    • Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām - Laqānī, Muḥammad Ibn Ḥasan
    • Date: 1893
    • Resource: Digitized - PDF - 124

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    Hādhā kitāb Mughnī al-labīb ʻan kutub al-aʻrīb
    هذا كتاب مغني اللبيب عا كتب الأعريب /     Early treatise on Arabic syntax.
    • Contributor: Ibn Hishām, ʻabd Allāh Ibn Yūsuf - Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
    • Date: 1857
    • Resource: PDF - 982

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    [Muṭawwal]
    Sharḥ al-Talkhīṣ     al-Taftāzānī's commentary on al-Qazwīnī's Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ on Arabic rhetoric.
    • Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām - Taftāzānī, Masʻūd Ibn ʻumar
    • Date: 1853
    • Resource: PDF - 522

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    Sharḥ al-Talkhīṣ
    شرح التلخيص     al-Taftāzānī's commentary on al-Qazwīnī's Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ on Arabic rhetoric.
    • Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām - Taftāzānī, Masʻūd Ibn ʻumar
    • Date: 1853
    • Resource: PDF - 836

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    Tashabbuh al-Durar al-bahīyah ʻalá matn al-Samarqandīyah
    تشبه الدرر البهية على متن السمرقندية | Title on fol. 1a: Ḥāshiyat Jād al-Mawlá ʻalá matn al-Samarqandīyah     Commentary on the Risālah al-Samarqandīyah on Arabic rhetoric.
    • Contributor: Jād Al-Mawlá, Muḥammad Ibn Maʻdān - Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
    • Date: 1811
    • Resource: PDF - 116

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    Hādhihi al- Ḥāshiyah lil-shaykh al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah wa-al-baḥr al-fahhāmah al-Shaykh Muḥammad al-Damanhūrī ʻalá matn al-Kāfī
    هذه ال حاشية للشيخ العالم العلامة والبحر الفهامة الشيخ محمد الدمنهوري على متن الكافي     Commentary on al-Khawwāṣ Kāfī fī ʻilmay al-ʻarūḍ wa-al-qawāfī on Arabic versification.
    • Contributor: Damanhūrī, Muḥammad - Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
    • Date: 1842
    • Resource: PDF - 80

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    Hādhihi al- Ḥāshiyah shaykhina wa-ustādhina al-Shaykh al-Damanhūrī al-ṣaghīrah al-musammāh bi-al-Mukhtaṣar al-shāfī ʻalá matn al-Kāfī
    هذه ال حاشية شيخنا واستاذنا الشيخ الدمنهوري الصغيرة المسماة بالمختصر الشافي على متن الكافي     The author's abridgement of his own commentary on al-Khawwāṣ's Kāfī fī ʻilmay al-ʻarūḍ wa-al-qawāfī on Arabic versification.
    • Contributor: Damanhūrī, Muḥammad - Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
    • Date: 1847
    • Resource: PDF - 60

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    Naẓm Muthallath Quṭrub wa-sharḥuh
    نظم مثلث قطرب وشرحه / | Title on fol. 1a: Muthallathāt Quṭrub     Commentary on Quṭrub's Muthallath which includes the text of the poem.
    • Contributor: Bahnasī, ʻabd Al-Wahhāb Ibn Al-Ḥasan - Quṭrub, Muḥammad Ibn Al-Mustanīr - Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
    • Date: 1843
    • Resource: PDF - 40

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    Hādhihi Ḥāshīyat al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻĀlim al-ʻAllāmah Aḥmad al-Shāfiʻī al-Janājī al-Mālikī ʻalá Sharḥ Shaykh al-Islām Zakarīyā al-Anṣārī ʻalá al-Muqniʻ li-ibn al-Hāʼim fī ʻilm al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah
    هذه حاشية الشيخ الإمام العالم العلامة أحمد الشافعي الجناجي المالكي على شرح شيخ الإسلام زكريا الأنصاري على المقنع لإبن الهائم في علم الجبر والمقابلة | Ḥāshīyat al-Shaykh Aḥmad al-Shāfiʻī al-Janājī ʻalá Sharḥ Zakarīyā al-Anṣārī ʻalá al-Muqniʻ li-ibn al-Hāʼim fī ʻilm al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah | هذا شرح شيخ الاسلام زكريا الانصاري لمنظومات لابن الهائم في علم الجبر و المقابلة المسمى بفتح المبدع في شرح المقنع | هذه حاشية العالم العلامة الأستاذ الحفني المسماة بفرائد عوائد جبرية على شرح السبط للياسمينية | هذا كتاب اللمعة الماردنية في شرح الياسمينية في علم الجبر والمقابلة | هذه حاشية العالم العلامة الشيخ أحمج محمد الشافعي الجناجي المالكي على شرح السبط المارديني على الياسمينية في علم الجبر و المقابلة     Text is a commentary on Zakarīyā al-Anṣārī's commentary on the mathematical assumptions addressed by Ibn al-Hāʼim in al-Muqniʻ on the algebraic equality and inequality of functions. The Arabic mathematical tradition, which flourished during the Middle Ages, transmitted and enriched the knowledge derived from Greek and Indian sources. Arabic mathematicians further developed these studies, seeking to answer theoretical as well as practical problems. Medieval Arabic…
    • Contributor: Ḥifnī, Muḥammad Ibn Sālim - Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Yūsuf, Ṭāhā - Ibn Al-Yāsamīn, ʻabd Allāh Ibn Ḥajjāj - Anṣārī, Zakarīyā Ibn Muḥammad - Sibṭ Al-Māridīnī, Badr Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad - Ibn Al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad - Janājī, Aḥmad Muḥammad - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
    • Date: 1888
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    Hādhā Sharḥ Shaykh al-Islām Zakarīyā al-Anṣārī li-manẓūmāt Ibn al-Hāʼim fī ʻilm al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah al-musammá bi-Fatḥ al-mubdiʻ fī sharḥ al-Muqniʻ
    هذا شرح شيخ الاسلام زكريا الانصاري لمنظومات لابن الهائم في علم الجبر و المقابلة المسمى بفتح المبدع في شرح المقنع     This work is a commentary on a versified, 59-line introduction to algebra, entitled Al-Muqni' fī al-jabr wa al-muqābila, by the prolific and influential mathematician, jurist, and man of letters Abū al-'Abbās Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn 'Alī al-Maqdisī al-Shāfi'ī, known as Ibn al-Hā'im (circa 1356-1412 [circa 753-815 AH]). It clarifies the nomenclature and explains the basic concepts of algebra, and provides succinct examples.…
    • Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Yūsuf, Ṭāhā - Anṣārī, Zakarīyā Ibn Muḥammad - Ibn Al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
    • Date: 1888
    • Resource: PDF
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    Hādhā kitāb al-Lumʻah al-Māridīnīyah fī sharḥ al-Yāsamīnīyah fī ʻilm al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah
    هذا كتاب اللمعة الماردنية في شرح الياسمينية في علم الجبر والمقابلة     Text is a commentary on the versified treatise of arithmetic entitled al-Yāsamīnīyah by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ḥajjāj Ibn al-Yāsamīn. The mathematical tradition that flourished in North Africa and Andalusia during the Middle Ages did not undergo the same decline that many scholars claim occurred in the sciences after the first half of the 13th century. The present work supports this point. The manuscript is…
    • Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Yūsuf, Ṭāhā - Ibn Al-Yāsamīn, ʻabd Allāh Ibn Ḥajjāj - Sibṭ Al-Māridīnī, Badr Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
    • Date: 1874
    • Resource: PDF
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    Hādhihi Ḥāshīyat al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻĀlim al-ʻAllāmah Aḥmad al-Shāfiʻī al-Janājī al-Mālikī ʻalá Sharḥ Shaykh al-Islām Zakarīyā al-Anṣārī ʻalá al-Muqniʻ li-ibn al-Hāʼim fī ʻilm al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah
    هذه حاشية الشيخ الإمام العالم العلامة أحمد الشافعي الجناجي المالكي على شرح شيخ الإسلام زكريا الأنصاري على المقنع لإبن الهائم في علم الجبر والمقابلة | Ḥāshīyat al-Shaykh Aḥmad al-Shāfiʻī al-Janājī ʻalá Sharḥ Zakarīyā al-Anṣārī ʻalá al-Muqniʻ li-ibn al-Hāʼim fī ʻilm al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah     Text is a commentary on Zakarīyā al-Anṣārī's commentary on the mathematical assumptions addressed by Ibn al-Hāʼim in al-Muqniʻ on the algebraic equality and inequality of functions. The Arabic mathematical tradition, which flourished during the Middle Ages, transmitted and enriched the knowledge derived from Greek and Indian sources. Arabic mathematicians further developed these studies, seeking to answer theoretical as well as practical problems. Medieval Arabic…
    • Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Yūsuf, Ṭāhā - Anṣārī, Zakarīyā Ibn Muḥammad - Ibn Al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad - Janājī, Aḥmad Muḥammad - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
    • Date: 1888
    • Resource: PDF
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    Hādhihi Ḥāshīyat al-ʻĀlim al-ʻAllāmah al-Shaykh Aḥmad Muḥammad al-Shāfiʻī al-Janājī al-Mālikī ʻalá Sharḥ al-Sibṭ al-Māridīnī ʻalá al-Yāsamīnīyah fī ʻilm al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah
    هذه حاشية العالم العلامة الشيخ أحمج محمد الشافعي الجناجي المالكي على شرح السبط المارديني على الياسمينية في علم الجبر و المقابلة     This supercommentary (commentary on a commentary) by Aḥmad Muhammad al-Šāfiʻī al-Janājī al-Mālikī testifies to the liveliness and endurance of the Arabic mathematical tradition and demonstrates the continuous exegetical effort in which Arabic scientists commented upon previous works with the aim of expanding and clarifying their contents. The North African mathematician 'Abd Allāh ibn Ḥajjāj ibn al-Yāsamīn (died 1204) conveyed his mathematical knowledge in a…
    • Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Yūsuf, Ṭāhā - Ibn Al-Yāsamīn, ʻabd Allāh Ibn Ḥajjāj - Sibṭ Al-Māridīnī, Badr Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad - Janājī, Aḥmad Muḥammad - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
    • Date: 1888
    • Resource: PDF
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    Kitāb Sharḥ Nuzhat al-nuzzār fī ʻilm al-ghubār li-Abī al-ʻAbbās Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad Ibn al-Hāʼim
    كتاب شرح نزهة النزار في علم الغبار لأبي العباس شهاب الدين أحمد إبن الهائم /     al-Ghazzī's commentary on Ibn al-Hāʼim's book Nuzhat al-nuẓẓār, which itself represents the author's abridgement of his work Murshidat al-tālib illá asnaʼ al-maṭālib.
    • Contributor: Ghazzī, Aḥmad Ibn Qāsim - Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
    • Date: 1867
    • Resource: PDF - 192

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    Kifāyat al-qanūʻ fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-maqṭūʻ
    كفاية القنوع في العمل بالربع المقطوع | Title on fol. 1a: Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ     Treatise on the use of the almucantar; an abridgment by the author of his Iẓhār al-sirr al-mawḍūʻ fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-maqṭūʻ.
    • Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Sibṭ Al-Māridīnī, Badr Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
    • Date: 1818
    • Resource: PDF - 36

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    Risālah fī al-burūj wa-al-manāzil : Farāʼid jawharīyah fī fawāʼid al-mīqātīyah
    رسالة في البروج و المنازل : فرائد جوهرية في فوائد الميقاتية | Title from fol. 2a: Farāyid jawharīyah fī fawāyid mīqātīyah | Farāyid jawharīyah fī fawāyid mīqātīyah     This work is an introductory, but well-organized, treatise on the elements of time-keeping and reckoning. The treatise is divided into seven sections and a conclusion. It introduces the Arabic, Coptic, and Syriac (or Alexandrian) calendars, and comments on the Persian, Roman, and Hebraic calendars. The work gives the names and lengths of the months in various calendars, explains the different methods for ascertaining the…
    • Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Budayrī, Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
    • Date: 1831
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    al-ʻIqd al-thamīn fīmā yataʻallaqu bi-al-mawāzīn
    العقد الثمين في ما يتعلق بالموازين /     This treatise on scales, measures, and weighing instruments is by a prominent member of the Jabartī family, a distinguished clan of Somali-Egyptian Ḥanafī 'ulamā' in Ottoman-ruled Egypt. The author, Ḥasan al-Jabartī, was the father of the famous historian 'Abd al-Rahmān al-Jabarti (1753-1826 [1167-1241 AH]). Ḥasan al-Jabartī married into wealthy military families and also inherited substantial wealth. His relatives included merchants and ship owners, and…
    • Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Jabartī, Ḥasan Ibn Ibrāhīm - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
    • Date: 1854
    • Resource: PDF - 88