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AHMAD BIN YUSUF BIN AHMAD AL-QARAMANI AL-DIMASHQI IBN SAN (SINAN) (D. 1610 AD): AKHBAR AL-DUWAL WA ATHAR AL-AWWAL

OTTOMAN PROVINCES, DATED 6 SAFAR 1122/6 APRIL 1710 AD

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AHMAD BIN YUSUF BIN AHMAD AL-QARAMANI AL-DIMASHQI IBN SAN (SINAN) (D. 1610 AD): AKHBAR AL-DUWAL WA ATHAR AL-AWWAL
OTTOMAN PROVINCES, DATED 6 SAFAR 1122/6 APRIL 1710 AD
A history of the Islamic states, Arabic manuscript on paper, 381ff. as numbered plus four fly-leaves (19th century), each folio with 23ll. of black cursory naskh script, titles and important words in red, with marginal notes, catchwords, colophon dated, the fly-leaves with index, later ownership note to first folio, in 18th century Ottoman stamped brown morocco binding
Folio 8 ¾ x 6 ¼in. (22.3 x 15.8cm.)

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Ahmad Al-Qarmani, a Damascene historian and scribe, is the author of this work which opens with a brief account of the story of creation and ancient history and proceeds with the history of Islamic states until the author’s time.

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