Arabic

Kitāb al-Tawḍīḥ fī Ḥall Ghawāmiḍ al-Tanqīḥ [wa huwa Sharḥ al-Tanqīḥ] (Book of Elucidation on Solving the Ambiguities of the Revision [and this is the commentary on Tanqīḥ al-uṣūl by the same author])

Manuscript in Arabic
Copied by Muhammed el Hac Ilyas in Mahrusa [Istanbul], 867 [1462]
212 pp., 27 x 18 cm
unbound with remnants of original leather cover

ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Masʿūd al-Maḥbūbī, died 746 [1346/1347]

Sadr al-Shari'a, a Bukharan Hanafi theologian and jurist who lived in Bukhara and Herat in the post-Mongol period, attempted to synthesize the prevalent Ash'ari theological tradition with the Central Asian Hanafi juristic tradition. He focused in particular on the Hanafi Usul work of al-Pazdawi (d. 1089), on the one hand, and the two most influential theological works of the period, the al-Mukhtasar (The Abbreviated) of lbn al-Hajib (d. 1249) and al-Mahsul (The Harvest) of al-Razi, on the other. Many commentaries were writte...
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al-Kāmil fī l-Lugha wa-l-Adab, 2 Volumes

Printed in Arabic
Cairo: al-Maṭbaʿa al-taqaddum al-ʿilmīya 1323 & 1324 H. [1905/06].
Vol. 1: 296pp, vol. 2: 302pp.
27.5 x 19.5 cm, beautiful new half-leather binding 1970s.

Abū l-ʿAbbās Mubarrad

Mubarrad, Abu ’l-ʿAbbās Muḥammad b. Yazīd b. ʿAbd al-Akbar al-T̲h̲umālī al-Azdī (his genealogy reaches back to the D̲j̲āhiliyya; cf. Wüstenfeld, Tabellen, no. 10; Caskel, Tafeln , no. 210), celebrated philologist, was born in al-Baṣra on 10 D̲h̲u ’l-Ḥid̲j̲d̲j̲a 210/24 March 826 (or between 2 and 5 years earlier)....
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Kitāb akhbar al-uwal fī-man taṣarrafa fī Miṣr min arbāb al-duwal

Printed in Arabic
Cairo: al-Maṭbaʿa Maimunia, Rabīʿ al-awwal 1310 H. [1879 AD],
182 pp. 27.5 x 18.5 cm
Well preserved and half-leather new binding.

Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Muʿṭī ibn Abī al-Fatḥ ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Mughnī ibn ʿAlī al-Isḥāqī • (died 1649/50)

Second text in the margins: al-Sharqāwī, ʿAbd Allāh, Tuḥfat al-nāẓirīn fī-man waliya Miṣr min al-wulāt wa-l-salāṭīn. Classic of historiography, several editions....
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Nafaḥ al-Rind fī sīrat rasūl al-yābūn wa-l-hind, transl. al-Ab Buwazit al-Yasūʿī

Printed in Arabic
Beirut: maṭbaʿa al-abāʾ al-Yasūʿiyīn (Printing shop of the Jesuit order in Beirut) 1885
242 pp. 23.7 x 15.5 cm
Unbound, original Paperback

Bouhours, Dominique (1628-1702)

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Sahīh al-Buchārī

Printed in Arabic
Istanbul: Matbaa-i Amire 1315 H. [1897]
8 vols. bound in 4 vols. 228, 260, 3235, 270, 242, 253, 240, 219 pp.

24.5 x 18 cm, Ottoman Style full leather bound with flip

Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Buchārī

Sahīh al-Buchārī is the common name of a collection of hadiths that goes back to the Islamic scholar Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Buchārī (d. 870). The correct title of the work is al-Jāmiʿ as-sahīh / al-Ǧāmiʿ aṣ-ṣaḥīḥ /'The Comprehensive Healthy'. The work ranks first among the canonical six hadith collections and is held in the highest esteem in Sunni Islam to this day. In terms of its authority and sanctity, it stands here directly behind the Qur'an. The first publication of Bukhārī’s al-Jāmi‘ al-sahīh in the Islamic world w...
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