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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
Author
Iskandarānī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, -1888 or 1889
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اسكندراني، محمد بن احمد
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Uniform title
Barāhin al-bayyināt fī bayān ḥaqāʼiq al-ḥayawānāt
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براهن البينات في بيان حقائق الحيوانات
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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/Created
[Damascus?, 18--?]
Description
i, 392, ii leaves : paper ; 236 x 189 (172 x 130) mm.
Availability
Available Online
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Notes
Special Collections - Manuscripts
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 427Y
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Subject(s)
Zoology
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Islamic empire
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Early works to 1800
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Damascus (Syria)
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Intellectual life
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History
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19th century
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Sources
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Muslim scholars
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Certification
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History
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Syria
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Damascus
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19th century
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Sources
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Muslim scholars
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Certification
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History
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19th century
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Sources
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Muslim scholars
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Syria
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Damascus
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History
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19th century
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Manuscripts, Arabic
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New Jersey
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Princeton
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Related name
حمزاوي، محمود بن محمد
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عطار, محمد سالم بن ياسين
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ابن عبدين، محمد بن محمد امين
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اسطواني، عبد القادر بن عبد الله
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طنطوي، محمد بن مصطفى
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عطار، بكري بن حامد
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منيني، محمد بن احمد
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ابن المنير، محمد عارف بن احمد بن سعيد
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Contains
Ḥamzāwī, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad, 1820 or 1821-1887.
[Autograph approbation of Kitāb al-Barāhīn al-bayyināt by Muḥammad Iskandarānī].
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ʻAṭṭār, Muḥammad Salīm ibn Yāsīn, 1818-1890.
[Autograph approbation of Kitāb al-Barāhīn al-bayyināt by Muḥammad Iskandarānī].
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Ibn ʻĀbidīn, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Amīn, -1888 or 1889.
[Autograph approbation of Kitāb al-Barāhīn al-bayyināt by Muḥammad Iskandarānī].
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Usṭuwānī, ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 1833 or 1834-1897.
[Autograph approbation of Kitāb al-Barāhīn al-bayyināt by Muḥammad Iskandarānī].
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Ṭanṭawī, Muḥammad ibn Muṣṭafá, 1825 or 1826-1889.
[Autograph approbation of Kitāb al-Barāhīn al-bayyināt by Muḥammad Iskandarānī].
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ʻAṭṭār, Bakrī ibn Ḥāmid, 1835 or 1836-1903.
[Autograph approbation of Kitāb al-Barāhīn al-bayyināt by Muḥammad Iskandarānī].
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Manīnī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 1835?-1898 or 1899.
[Autograph approbation of Kitāb al-Barāhīn al-bayyināt by Muḥammad Iskandarānī].
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Ibn al-Munīr, Muḥammad ʻĀrif ibn Aḥmad ibn Saʻīd, -1923 or 1924.
[Autograph approbation of Kitāb al-Barāhīn al-bayyināt by Muḥammad Iskandarānī].
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Summary note
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.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a). The same title appears in the preamble (fol. 2a).
Physical description: 28 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in thick black and magenta ink. Modern paper, with an embossed stamp on most leaves bearing the inscription in Arabic script: "Athar-i jadīd-i ʻahd-i Humayūn" [Eser-i Cedid-i Ahd-i Hümayun] (same as Islamic manuscripts, Garrett no. 404L). Catchword on the verso of each leaf. A few marginal notes correcting the text. Note in Ottoman Turkish mentioning the date [1]303 [1885 or 6] on fol. 1a. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Shīn 105".
Origin: Copied by Aḥmad al-Shaṭṭī Ibn al-Shaykh Ḥasan (colophon, fol. 372a). This might be the same as Aḥmad al-Shaṭṭī (24 Ṣafar 1251-22 Ṣafar 1310 / 1835-1892) mentioned in Aʻyān Dimashq fī al-qarn al-thālith ʻashar wa-niṣf al-qarn al-rābiʻ ʻashar, 1972 (2nd. ed.), p. 385.
Incipit: يا من شرح صدور المتقين بانوار الاسلام ... [2أ] ... اما بعد فيقول العبد ... محمد بن احمد الاسكندرانى قال لي الفريق المومى اليه آنفا ان من المعلوم عند اهل العرفان ذوي البصاير والاتقان ان من انفع العلوم بالمنطوق والمفهوم علم الحيوان لا سيما معرفة حقيقة الانسان
Explicit (fol. 373a):وكثيرا ما تكون لها اعين ملساء ايضا ولا يوجد ادنى اثر من عضو الابصار في الحيوانات الرخوة عديمة الراس كما تقدم ولا في الحيوانات الشعاعية وقد تمت الخاتمة بعون الله تعالى وحسن توفيقه
Binding note
Quires and loose leaves wrapped in paper.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 4772
OCLC
76761377
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