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Tag: arabic literary
130 records found
Recto: Literary text in Arabic script. Historical or philosophical. Containing various questions; the first is attributed to Amīr al-Mu'minīn and mentions Muʿāwiya. Verso: Judaeo-Arabic poetry. Information from FGP.
Literary, Arabic script. Tale concerning Hārūn al-Rashīd and Jaʿfar ibn Barmak. Information from Baker/Polliack catalog.
A leaf from Kalīla wa-Dimna, including an illumination of the raven and the rat (but not the tortoise) in the story.
Work containing two Sufi treatises (by the same hand): 1. Collections of sayings of the Sufi martyrs (especially of Abu Yazid) with occasional comments by ʿAbd al-Rahman b. Muhammad, pages 1–14. 2. Exchange of letters between al-Nūrī and Junayd on the subject of balā' (trial/affliction), pages 14–20. Information from Baker/Polliack catalog.
Business letter in Arabic script. Very long. Incomplete. Mentions someone's brother who has not returned from India as expected (seven lines from the bottom of recto). Needs examination.
Literary work in Arabic script. Jottings in the margin in an unclear notation.
Medical treatise in Arabic script.
Recto: Arabic script, probably literary. On verso there is piyyut.
Bifolium containing multiple literary texts, in both Hebrew and Arabic. The Arabic side is from a Muslim historical work, recounting the episode of Muḥammad's letters to foreign rulers. Discussed in Oded Zinger, "Meanderings in the Arabic Literary Genizot," 204f.
Bifolium with Arabic literary text (on love?) and one page of Hebrew.