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كتاب البراهين البينات في بيان حقائق الحيوانات / لمؤلفه العالم العلامة والمدقق الفهامة الشيخ محمد افندي الاسكندراني
Kitāb al-Barāhīn al-bayyināt fī bayān ḥaqāʼiq al-ḥayawānāt / li-muʼallifihi al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah wa-al-mudaqqiq al-fahhāmah al-shaykh Muḥammad Afandī al-Iskandarānī
1800-1899
Treatise on zoology in two parts (maqālah), an introduction and a conclusion on zoology. The text is followed by a table of contents on fol. 374b-386 and by nine autograph letters praising the text, signed Maḥmūd al-Ḥamzāwī, muftī Dimashq al-Shām (fol. 388b, with seal), Muḥammad Salīm al-ʻAṭṭār (fol. 389a, with seal), Muḥammad al-ʻUthmānī (fol. 389b, with seal), Muḥammad al-Ṭanṭawī (fol. 390a, with seal), ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Usṭuwānī (fol. 390b, with seal), Muḥammad ʻĀrif al-Munīr(?) al-Ḥusaynī al-Shāfiʻī (fol. 391a), Muḥammad ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn ʻĀbidīn (fol. 391b, with seal), Bakrī ibn Ḥāmid al-ʻAṭṭār (fol. 392a, with seal), and Muḥammad Ṣādiq al-Maydānī (fol. 392b). For the description of a similar list of autograph approbations on a copy of another text by the same author, see Aʻyān Dimashq fī al-qarn al-thālith ʻashar wa-niṣf al-qarn al-rābiʻ ʻashar, 1972 (2nd. ed.), p. 337.
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- Publisher
- [Damascus?, 18--?]
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- Related Name
- حمزاوي، محمود بن محمد
- عطار, محمد سالم بن ياسين
- ابن عبدين، محمد بن محمد امين
- اسطواني، عبد القادر بن عبد الله
- طنطوي، محمد بن مصطفى
- عطار، بكري بن حامد
- منيني، محمد بن احمد
- ابن المنير، محمد عارف بن احمد بن سعيد
- Language
- Arabic
- Subject
- Zoology—Islamic empire—Early works to 1800
- Damascus (Syria)—Intellectual life—History—19th century—Sources
- Muslim scholars—Certification—History—Syria—Damascus—19th century—Sources
- Muslim scholars—Certification—History—19th century—Sources
- Muslim scholars—Syria—Damascus—History—19th century—Sources
- Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
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