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Manuscript/Mixed Material Kitāb Kashf al-ḥijāb wa-al-rānn ʻan wajh asʼilat al-jānn كتاب كشف الحجاب والران عا وجه اسئلة الجان /

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Title

  • Kitāb Kashf al-ḥijāb wa-al-rānn ʻan wajh asʼilat al-jānn

Other Title

  • كتاب كشف الحجاب والران عا وجه اسئلة الجان /

Summary

  • Treatise on the jinn.

Names

  • Shaʻrānī, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad, approximately 1493-1565 or 1566
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 2 Shaʻbān 1098 [13 June 1687]

Headings

  • -  Jinn--Early works to 1800
  • -  Islam--Doctrines--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a.
  • -  Scribe not identified
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; heavy, slighly yellowed cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and an armorial watermark; black ink with rubrication and overlining; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, GII, p. 336.4
  • -  Naskh; 21 lines in written area 14.5 x 10 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-54a.
  • -  "H-0507 = 3.664."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 3-664.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name in lower right corner of cover.
  • -  ‏Incipit: البسملة. قل اعوذ برب الفلق من شر ما خلق ومن شر غاسق اذا وقب ومن شر النقاثات في الغقد ومن شرحاسد اذاحسد. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. قل اعوذ برب الناس ملك الناس اله الناس من شر الوسواس الخناس الذي يوسوس في صدور الناس من الجنة والناس. والحمد لله رب العالمين ...
  • -  ‏Explicit/Colophon: حرر وحرى ذلك يوم الجمعة المبارك بعد صلاة الجمعة ثاني شهر شعبان المعظم ... من شهور عام سنة 1098 ثمانية وتسعين والف ...

Medium

  • 54 leaves (21 lines), paper : bound ; 21 x 15.7 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP166.89 .S55 1687

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2017498242

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

ShaʻRānī, ʻAbd Al-Wahhāb Ibn Aḥmad, Approximately Or 1566, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb Kashf al-ḥijāb wa-al-rānn ʻan wajh asʼilat al-jānn. [2 Shaʻbān 13 June 1687, 1687] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017498242/.

APA citation style:

ShaʻRānī, ʻ. A. I. A., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1687) Kitāb Kashf al-ḥijāb wa-al-rānn ʻan wajh asʼilat al-jānn. [2 Shaʻbān 13 June 1687] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017498242/.

MLA citation style:

ShaʻRānī, ʻAbd Al-Wahhāb Ibn Aḥmad, Approximately Or 1566, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb Kashf al-ḥijāb wa-al-rānn ʻan wajh asʼilat al-jānn. [2 Shaʻbān 13 June 1687, 1687] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2017498242/>.