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SHAYKH 'ABD AL-WAHHAB BIN AHMAD AL-SHA'RANI (D. 1565 AD): KITAB AL-MIZAN AL-SHA'RANIYA

SIGNED FATIMA BINT AHMAD KNOWN AS WALIDI, COPIED AT THE MADRASA AL-SULAYMANIYA, HARAM AL-SHARIF, MECCA, DATED 19 SHAWAL AH 1123/30 NOVEMBER 1711 AD

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SHAYKH 'ABD AL-WAHHAB BIN AHMAD AL-SHA'RANI (D. 1565 AD): KITAB AL-MIZAN AL-SHA'RANIYA
SIGNED FATIMA BINT AHMAD KNOWN AS WALIDI, COPIED AT THE MADRASA AL-SULAYMANIYA, HARAM AL-SHARIF, MECCA, DATED 19 SHAWAL AH 1123/30 NOVEMBER 1711 AD
An important work on the four Sunni schools of law, Arabic manuscript on European paper watermarked with crescent, star and fleur-de-lys, 430ff., 15ll. of black cursive to the page, important words and titles picked out in red, including seven folios with polychrome diagrams, with catchwords, colophon indicating the place of copy, signed and dated, in 18th century Ottoman brown stamped morocco
Folio 8 1/8 x 6 1/8in. (20.5 x 15.5cm.)

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The colophon states that this manuscript was copied from the copy of Imam al-Din bin Ahmad al-Murshidi and that it was copied in Mecca, at the Sulaymaniya madrasa near the Haram al-Sharif. The colophon also states that this manuscript was copied by a female calligrapher, Fatima bin Ahmad.

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