NAZM AL-SHARIF ABU YA'LA MUHAMMAD BIN MUHAMMAD KNOWN AS IBN AL-HABBARIYA (D.1115 AD): KITAB NATA'IJ AL-FITNA FI NAZM KITAB KALILA WA DIMNA

SIGNED AHMAD BIN 'ALI B. IBRAHIM B. 'ALI B. IBRAHIM AL-[..] AL-HASHIMI, OTTOMAN LEVANT, DATED MONDAY 13 MUHARRAM AH 1025/1 FEBRUARY 1616 AD

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NAZM AL-SHARIF ABU YA'LA MUHAMMAD BIN MUHAMMAD KNOWN AS IBN AL-HABBARIYA (D.1115 AD): KITAB NATA'IJ AL-FITNA FI NAZM KITAB KALILA WA DIMNA
SIGNED AHMAD BIN 'ALI B. IBRAHIM B. 'ALI B. IBRAHIM AL-[..] AL-HASHIMI, OTTOMAN LEVANT, DATED MONDAY 13 MUHARRAM AH 1025/1 FEBRUARY 1616 AD
A collection of apologues and moral maxims on the plan of Kalila wa Dimna, Arabic manuscript on paper, 148ff., each folio with 13ll. of black naskh script arranged in two columns with red dot markers, titles in larger red naskh script, with catchwords, occasional marginal notes, colophon signed and dated and mentioning the name of Muhyi al-Din 'Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani, in brown morocco binding
Folio 8¼ x 5½in. (21 x 14.3cm.)

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The Encyclopaedia of Islam mentions that this work was composed in ten days "in elegant and flowing language" by Ibn al-Habbariyya, about the year 1100 ("Kalila wa Dimna", Encyclopaedia of Islam, vol.IV, p.696). It is one of the three Arabic versified versions of Kalila wa Dimna, one being lost (by Aban al-Lahiqi) and the other existing in one manuscript only (according to the Encyclopaedia, 'Abd al-Mu'min b. al-Hasan al-Husayn al-Saghani's Durr al-Hikam fi Amthal al-Hunud wa al-'Ajam) now in Vienna.

In the colophon, the scribe mentions that he is the assistant (mu'in) of the Qadiriyya Shaykh, Muhyi al-Din 'Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani.

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