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Three Crescent Moons Watermark from the Grand Imam Yousouf manuscript collection (N'Guigmi, Niger, 2010)  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Measurements:  [various sizes]
Subjects:  Watermarks
دمغ بعلامة مائية
Filigranes
Wasserzeichen
Moon in art
القمر في الفن
Lune dans l'art
Mond in der Kunst
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

كتاب الحاوي  

Publication Date:  1674?
Creator:  رازي، أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا، 865?-925?
Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, 865?-925?
Razi, Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya, 865?-925?
Sulaymān I, Shah of Iran, 1658 or 9-1694
سليمان I، شاه إيران، 1658 or 9-1694
Material:  343 leaves
Measurements:  39 cm.
Subjects:  Medicine, Arab
آسيا - إيران
Source Institution:  Yale University

Muraqqa' : covers (exemplar)  

Measurements:  H27 x W18.5 cm
Subjects:  Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian
آسیا -- ایران
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London
Donor:  Donated in 1935 on behalf of the late Mr R.S. Greenshields.

Utenzi wa Hirqal (MS 45022a)  

Publication Date:  [19th century]
Creator:  Kijuma, Muhammad
Mwana, Kupona, 1810-1860
Material:  Paper
Technique:  Handwritten manuscript : Handwritten in black and red ink on old thick papers
Subjects:  Christianity
Islam
Swahili poetry
Religious belief
Kiswahili mashairi
Uislamu
Imani za kidini
ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, approximately 600-661
Gabriel (Archangel)
Prophet Mohammed
Oral history
Jibril
Ibnu Omari
Jaafari Mwana Amuye Bashiri
Faith
Muḥammad, Prophet, -641
علي بن أبي طالب، الخليفة، 600-661
Heraclius
Abdalla Shuhuri
Source Institution:  SOAS University of London

Wafar gode Allahu mai wada  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Creator:  Asma'u, Nana, 1793-1865
Material:  Paper
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

تحفة الخواتين  

Publication Date:  1742
Creator:  Anṣārī Shīrāzī, ʻAlī ibn Ḥusayn, approximately 1329-1403 or 1404
Format:  37 f.
Subjects:  Medicine, Persian
Source Institution:  SOAS University of London

Wakar siga kuwara sai anyi kira  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Creator:  Abubakar Matkaturu
Material:  Paper
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

آداب السلطنة  

Publication Date:  1609
Creator:  Javier, Jerónimo, 1549-1617
خاویر، جروم
كزافييه, جيروم
Format:  fol. ii, 522, i.
Subjects:  Jesuits -- History -- 16th century
Missions -- India
Source Institution:  SOAS University of London

كتاب زبور  

Publication Date:  [17th century]
Creator:  Javier, Jerónimo, 1549-1617
خاویر، جروم
كزافييه, جيروم
Format:  fol. 146.
Subjects:  Jesuits -- History -- 16th century
Missions -- India
Bible. O.T. Psalms
Source Institution:  SOAS University of London

Qu'ran (tagged 'kware')  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Material:  Paper
Subjects:  Book Covers
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

آوازۀً بزم صلح لاهه  

Publication Date:  1321 A.H. (1903 A.D.)
Creator:  ارفع، رضاّ
Arfaʻ, Riz̤ā, 1850 or 51-1937 or 8
Arfa', Riza, 1850 or 1851-1937 or 1938
Format:  10 leaves
Subjects:  International Peace Conference (1st : 1899 : Hague, Netherlands) -- Poetry -- Persian
Persian poetry -- 20th century
Source Institution:  Added automatically
Donor:  Lakhi, Cassim

كتاب الذخيرة  

Publication Date:  15--?
Creator:  ثابت بن قرة الحراني، d. 901
Thābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī, d. 901
Thabit ibn Qurrah al-Harrani, d. 901
Subjects:  آسيا -- الشرق الأوسط
Manuscripts, Arabic -- Catalogs
Manuscripts -- United States -- Catalogs
Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna), 980-1037
Ibn Sina (Avicenna), 980-1037
ابن سينا، 980-1037
Averroës, 1126-1198. Sharḥ Urjūzat Ibn Sīnā fī al-Ṭibb
ابن رشد، 1126-1198. شرح أرجوزة ابن سينا في الطب
Source Institution:  Yale University

Qasidar na roki Allah  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Creator:  Asma'u, Nana, 1793-1865
Material:  Paper
Subjects:  Lyric poetry
Qasida
قصيدة
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

انشاى مرواريد  

Publication Date:  [17th century]
Creator:  بياني كرماني، عبد الله بن محمد
Bayānī, Shihāb al-Dīn ʻAbd Allāh Murvārīd Kirmānī, 1460 or 1461-1516
Format:  fol. 104.
Subjects:  Letter writing, Persian
Source Institution:  SOAS University of London

بيان واقع  

Publication Date:  1797
Creator:  عبد الکریم بن عاقبت محمود بن محمد بولاقی بن محمد رضا کشمیری
ʿAbd-al-Karim Ibn-ʿAqibat al-Kasmiri
ʿAbd-al-Karim Ibn-ʿAqibat al-Kashmiri
ʿAbd-al-Karīm Ibn-ʿAqībat al-Kašmīrī
Format:  149 f.
Subjects:  India -- History -- 1526-1765
Afsharid dynasty
Source Institution:  SOAS University of London

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  • Qur'an and other religious texts and commentaries, written in the Old Kanembu and Arabic languages, from northern Nigeria and adjacent regions of Cameroon, Chad and Niger.Borno and Old Kanembu Islamic Manuscripts Borno and Old Kanembu Islamic Manuscripts
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