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ABU AL-QASIM MAHMUD BIN 'UMAR AL-ZAMAKHSHARI KNOWN AS JAR ALLAH (D. 1144 AD): AL-MUSTAQSA FI AL-AMTHAL
ABU AL-QASIM MAHMUD BIN 'UMAR AL-ZAMAKHSHARI KNOWN AS JAR ALLAH (D. 1144 AD): AL-MUSTAQSA FI AL-AMTHAL
ABU AL-QASIM MAHMUD BIN 'UMAR AL-ZAMAKHSHARI KNOWN AS JAR ALLAH (D. 1144 AD): AL-MUSTAQSA FI AL-AMTHAL
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ABU AL-QASIM MAHMUD BIN 'UMAR AL-ZAMAKHSHARI KNOWN AS JAR ALLAH (D. 1144 AD): AL-MUSTAQSA FI AL-AMTHAL

COPIED FOR CELEBIZADE ISMA'IL 'ASIM, SIGNED HAFIZ SULAYMAN, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1163/1749-50 AD

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ABU AL-QASIM MAHMUD BIN 'UMAR AL-ZAMAKHSHARI KNOWN AS JAR ALLAH (D. 1144 AD): AL-MUSTAQSA FI AL-AMTHAL
COPIED FOR CELEBIZADE ISMA'IL 'ASIM, SIGNED HAFIZ SULAYMAN, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1163/1749-50 AD
Dictionary of Arabic proverbs, Arabic manuscript on cream paper, 191ff. plus five fly-leaves, each folio with 23ll. of black naskh, keywords and phrases picked out in gold and red, within gold and black rules, catchwords, some marginal annotations, opening folio with gold and polychrome floral illuminated headpiece, colophon signed and dated, fly-leaves with later owners' notes, a seal impression to the colophon and one fly-leaf, in lacquer binding with floral cartouches within scrolling split-palmette borders, printed marbled paper doublures, opening and closing folios with some cracking to rules, otherwise good condition
Text panel 6 1/8 x 2 7/8in. (15.5 x 7.3cm.); folio 9 x 5 ¼in. (22.9 x 13.1cm.)
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Al-Mustaqsa fi al-Amthal is an extensive dictionary of Arabic proverbs completed by Zamakhshari in 1106 AD. The work is believed to encompass between 3,461 to 3500 proverbs arranged alphabetically according to their beginnings with explanation of their origin and use. See Brockelmann, “al-Zamakhshari,” EI, 8:1207.

This manuscript was copied for Celebizade Isma'il 'Asim Efendi (1685-1760), an Ottoman Shaykh al-Islam (Head of Judicial Hierarchy), historian and poet.

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