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Manuscript/Mixed Material Kitāb kawkab al-mabānī wa-mawkib al-marʻānī sharḥ ṣalawāt Sayyidī ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Kīlānī كتاب كوكب المباني وموكب المرعاني شرح صلوات سيدي عبد القادر الكيلاني / Sharḥ Sayyidī ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī ʻalạ ṣalawāt Sayyidī ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Kīlānī / Sharḥ ṣalawāt ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Kīlānī

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Title

  • Kitāb kawkab al-mabānī wa-mawkib al-marʻānī sharḥ ṣalawāt Sayyidī ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Kīlānī

Other Title

  • كتاب كوكب المباني وموكب المرعاني شرح صلوات سيدي عبد القادر الكيلاني
  • Sharḥ Sayyidī ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī ʻalạ ṣalawāt Sayyidī ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Kīlānī
  • Sharḥ ṣalawāt ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Kīlānī

Summary

  • Commentary on the Ṣalawāt of ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī.

Names

  • Nābulusī, ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʻīl, 1641-1731
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 29 Shaʻbān 1127 [30 August 1715]

Headings

  • -  ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī,---1166.--Ṣalawāt
  • -  Prayer--Islam--Early works to 1800
  • -  Sufism--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a.
  • -  Name of scribe not indicated.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Probably written in the Levant or Egypt.
  • -  Paper; cream color unpolished laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; black ink with rubrication; catchwords.
  • -  "28. III 1591 = 3.851."
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, SII p. 779.36
  • -  Naskh; 29-33 lines in written area 16.5 x 11 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1a-70a.
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 3-851.
  • -  Binding: black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name in lower right corner of cover.
  • -  Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله كفي وسلام على عباده الذين اصطفى ...

Medium

  • 70 leaves (29-33 lines), paper : bound ; 21 x 16 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP189.7.Q32 N325 1715

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016404827

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Nābulusī, ʻAbd Al-Ghanī Ibn IsmāʻĪl, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb kawkab al-mabānī wa-mawkib al-marʻānī sharḥ ṣalawāt Sayyidī ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Kīlānī. [29 Shaʻbān 30 August 1715, 1127] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016404827/.

APA citation style:

Nābulusī, ʻ. A. I. I., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1127) Kitāb kawkab al-mabānī wa-mawkib al-marʻānī sharḥ ṣalawāt Sayyidī ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Kīlānī. [29 Shaʻbān 30 August 1715] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016404827/.

MLA citation style:

Nābulusī, ʻAbd Al-Ghanī Ibn IsmāʻĪl, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb kawkab al-mabānī wa-mawkib al-marʻānī sharḥ ṣalawāt Sayyidī ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Kīlānī. [29 Shaʻbān 30 August 1715, 1127] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016404827/>.