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Unidentified item  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Material:  Paper
Subjects:  Watermarks
دمغ بعلامة مائية
Filigranes
Wasserzeichen
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Unidentified item  

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

[Unidentified title]  

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

دلائل الخيرات  

Publication Date:  [19th century]
Creator:  Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Jazuli (d 1465); mystic
الجزولي، محمد بن سليمان، 807-870 هـ
Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, ?-1465
Material:  Watercolour and ink on paper
Subjects:  Islam -- Prayers and devotions -- Arabic -- Early works to 1800.
الإسلام - الصلاة والولاءات - العربية - يعمل في وقت مبكر إلى 1800.
Africa -- Najeriya
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London
Donor:  Donated by Sir H.E. Leslie Wilson, Governor of Bombay, through Sir Frederic Kenyon, 1927.

[Short creed based on Umm al-Barāhīn by Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Sanūsī (1437-1480) of Tlemcen]  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Creator:  Sanūsī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, approximately 1427-approximately 1490
سنوسي، محمد بن يوسف، حوالي 1427-حوالي 1490
السنوسي، محمد بن يوسف
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  12 x 16 cm.
Subjects:  Théologie islamique
Islamische Theologie
Dogma -- Islamic theology
اللاهوت الإسلامي -- توحيد ــ شرح‎
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

A [treatise on fiqh]  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  27.5 cm.
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Amulet  

Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Inheritance computations (calculation of shares)  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  24.4 cm.
Subjects:  Inheritance
Inheritance computations
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Kitab Al-Shifa Bi Ta'Rif Huquq Al-Mustafa = Healing by the Recognition of the Reality of the Chosen One (Jos MS 397)  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Creator:  ʿIyāḍ Ibn-Mūsā 1083-1149
القاضي عياض، 476-544 هـ
عياض بن موسى، 1083-1149
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  6.6 x 9.25 cm.
Subjects:  Kitab Ash-shifa bi Ta'rif Huquq al-Mustafa
Sīrat Rasūl Allāh
سيرة رسول الله
Sîra
Sira (Islam)
Prophetic biography
السيرة النبوية
as-Siratu 'n-Nabawiyya
Life of the Messenger of God
سيرة
Sîrah
Islamischen Historiographie
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

[Qawāʿid al-ṣalāt]  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Creator:  Alhaji Abba Ibn al-Māhir ʿamma (son of Goni Amma) from Lamisulā Yafatori who was the student of Sheikh Goni Kaltumi
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  22 cm.
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

[majmūʿ khams kutub] Miscellany manuscript  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Creator:  Aḥmad al-Mukhtār Walīd al-Māhir (Goni) [?]
Abu Bukor Gonimi of Maiduguri
Al-Ḥājj Abū Bakr Qāsim Bāba Mrm ? (Maiduguri)
Publisher:  Northern Marianai Press, LTD.
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  22 cm.
Subjects:  miscellany
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Leaves from the Qur'an of the Grand Imam Yousouf (N'Guigmi, Niger, 2010)  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Publisher:  Clan Ledger
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  [various sizes]
Subjects:  Watermarks
دمغ بعلامة مائية
Filigranes
Wasserzeichen
Clan Ledger (paper manufacturer)
عشيرة ليدجر (الصانع ورقة)
Clan Ledger (fabricant de papier)
Clan Ledger (Papierhersteller)
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Amulet  

Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

[Manẓūmat al-Shaykh Yaḥyā al-Qurṭubiyyu] : Urjūzat al-wildān by Yaḥyā b. ʿUmar al-Qurṭubī al-Azdī (d. 1171)  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Creator:  Al-Ḥājj al-ʿālimu Waʿamī of Yerimari (Maiduguri)
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  22 cm.
Subjects:  Dogma
tawḥid
belief
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Konduga Qur’an  

Publication Date:  [18th Century]
Creator:  Borno scribes [unknown]
Scribes Borno [inconnue]
Borno Schriftgelehrten [unbekannt]
الكتبة بورنو [غير معروف]
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  32 x 22 cm.
Subjects:  Qur'an
القرآن الكريم
Coran
Koran
قرآن
Anchor watermark
Galvani, Andrea, 1797-1855. Watermark.
Anchor Wasserzeichen
Galvani, Andrea, von 1797 bis 1855. Wasserzeichen.
Filigrane d'une ancre
Galvani, Andrea, 1797-1855. Filigrane.
العلامة المائية من مرساة
جالفاني، أندريا، 1797-1855. العلامة المائية.
Shaykhʹzādah, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad, -1667 or 1668. Ḥāshīyah
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London
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