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'AYAD B. GHUNUM AL-FAHARI: KITAB AL-FUTUH
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'AYAD B. GHUNUM AL-FAHARI: KITAB AL-FUTUH

BAGHDAD, AH RABI' I 520, APRIL 1126 AD

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'AYAD B. GHUNUM AL-FAHARI: KITAB AL-FUTUH
BAGHDAD, AH RABI' I 520, APRIL 1126 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 145ff. with 25ll. of black naskh, catchwords, titles in larger naskh, ownership inscriptions on f. 145 of Muhammad b. al-Shahab b. Haji Yusuf b. Ilyas [?] al-Aswadi, AH either 860 or 840 and of 'Ali b. al-Haj Husayn [undated] modern Mamluk-style brown blind-tooled binding, folios sometimes disordered, browned and frayed, waterstaining, repaired throughout sometimes requiring rewriting of the text
Folio 9¼ x 6½in. (23.5 x 16cm.)
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Lot Essay

The strong script and dense paper of this manuscript are hallmarks of Abbasid book production. It was copied in Baghdad (madinat al-salam) by the scribe Abu Muhammad b. Isma'il b. al-Faraj b. Mansur al-Maqiri al-Qazwini, in April 1126. This little-known text is not cited by either Brockelmann or Sezgin, although several works with the same name are; it seems the swift Islamic conquest of Arabia, Asia and Africa provided ample material for a sustained tradition of religious and historical works.

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