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AHMAD BIN MUHAMMAD BIN AHMAD BIN ABI YAHYA BIN 'ABD AL-RAHMAN AL-MAQARRI AL-TILIMSANI AL-MALIKI AL-ASHA'RI (D. AH 1041/1631 AD): KITAB AL-NAFAHAT AL-'ANBARIYYA FI WASF NA'L KHAYR AL-BARIYYAH

NORTH AFRICA, PROBABLY MOROCCO, DATED 6 SAFAR AH 1073/20 SEPTEMBER 1662 AD

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AHMAD BIN MUHAMMAD BIN AHMAD BIN ABI YAHYA BIN 'ABD AL-RAHMAN AL-MAQARRI AL-TILIMSANI AL-MALIKI AL-ASHA'RI (D. AH 1041/1631 AD): KITAB AL-NAFAHAT AL-'ANBARIYYA FI WASF NA'L KHAYR AL-BARIYYAH
NORTH AFRICA, PROBABLY MOROCCO, DATED 6 SAFAR AH 1073/20 SEPTEMBER 1662 AD
A treatise on the Prophet's sandals, Arabic manuscript on paper, 39ff. as numbered plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 35ll. of black naskh with key words and headings picked out in red, eight full page gold, silver and polychrome illustrations of sandals, the colophon dated, in later cloth covered binding with flap and matching leather slipcase
Folio 11 1/8 x 7½in. (28.3 x 19cm.)

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The author of this text was born in Tilimsan, Algeria AH 1000/1591 AD. He studied in Fez and died in AH 1041/1631 AD. Another treatise on the Prophet's sandals by the same author but with a different title, Fath al-muta'al fi madh al-ni'al, is in the Chester Beatty Library (A. Arberry, A Handlist of the Arabic Manuscripts,, vol. 1, Dublin, 1955, no.3113, p.46). That is dated 6 Ramadan AH 1071/4 May 1661 AD. Our copy must be a relatively early one as it was copied only 30 years after the author's death.

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