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Lot Essay
According to Emilie Savage-Smith "the treatise was written for the Rasulid ruler of the Yemen al-Malik al-Muzaffar Yusuf (d. 1295 AD) before he became ruler in 1249 AD following the death of his father al-Malik al-Mansur 'Umar bin 'Ali bin Rasul. Later writers have attributed the present treatise to the Rasulid ruler himself rather than to al-Hamawi. Al-Zirikli states that he saw a copy of the work in two volumes in a library in al-Ta'if with the author given as the Rasulid ruler" (Al-A'lam, Beirut, 2007, vol.5, p.324). .
The work contains five maqalahs including a section on simple remedies.
Another copy of this work, unsigned and undated, is in the Bodleian Library. The colophon has been defaced and according to Savage-Smith it must have been made before 1713 when it came into the Bodleian Library, see E. Savage-Smith, A New Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, volume I, entry no. 76, pp. 334-336.
Also Brockelmann, GAL, S, ii.
The work contains five maqalahs including a section on simple remedies.
Another copy of this work, unsigned and undated, is in the Bodleian Library. The colophon has been defaced and according to Savage-Smith it must have been made before 1713 when it came into the Bodleian Library, see E. Savage-Smith, A New Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, volume I, entry no. 76, pp. 334-336.
Also Brockelmann, GAL, S, ii.