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MUHAMMAD JARALLAH IBN ZUHAIRA AL-QURAISHI AL-MAKKI AL-HANAFI (D. 1553): AL-JAMI AL-LATIF FI FADL (FADA’IL) MAKKAH WA AHLIHA WA BINA’ AL-BAIT AL SHARIF

SIGNED 'IZZ AL-DIN IBN MARHUM SHAYKH MUHAMMAD AL-MAONUFI, OTTOMAN NEAR EAST, DATED MONDAY 16 RABI’ II AH 1109/FRIDAY 1 NOVEMBER 1697 AD

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MUHAMMAD JARALLAH IBN ZUHAIRA AL-QURAISHI AL-MAKKI AL-HANAFI (D. 1553): AL-JAMI AL-LATIF FI FADL (FADA’IL) MAKKAH WA AHLIHA WA BINA’ AL-BAIT AL SHARIF
SIGNED 'IZZ AL-DIN IBN MARHUM SHAYKH MUHAMMAD AL-MAONUFI, OTTOMAN NEAR EAST, DATED MONDAY 16 RABI’ II AH 1109/FRIDAY 1 NOVEMBER 1697 AD
A treatise on the Holy City of Mecca, its people and the building of the Ka’ba, Arabic manuscript on burnished cream paper, 70ff., each folio with 23ll. of black naskh script, titles and important words in red, catchwords, occasional marginal notes, signed and dated colophon, in stamped brown morocco binding with cream paper doublures

Text panel 6 ¼ x 4in. (15.8 x 10cm.); folio 8 ¼ x 6in. (21 x 15cm.)

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This extremely rare text is one of the most important references to Mecca, comprising not only its history, but also the interpretation of Qur’anic verses regarding Mecca, its jurisprudential rulings and its famous landmarks. The author, Ibn Zuhaira, and this title are mentioned in the index of the monumental work Mohammad al-Mojan, The Honourable Ka’bah: Architecture and Kiswa, Makkah, 2010. It is among the earliest dated manuscripts of this work, which include a manuscript held in Leiden dated AH 1096/1685-86 AD (Or. 2661). Other copies are recorded in libraries in Paris, the British Museum and Cairo (C. Brockelmann, GAL, G. II, 381; S. II, 514).

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