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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

[Unidentified title]  

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

Risala  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Material:  Paper
Subjects:  Watermarks
دمغ بعلامة مائية
Filigranes
Wasserzeichen
Crescent moons
أقمار الهلال
Halbmonde
Croissants de lune
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

al-Murshid al-muʿīn ʿalā ʾl-ḍarūrī min ʿulūm al-dīn by Ibn ʿĀshir  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Creator:  ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. ʿĀshir al-Anṣārī al-Fāsī (d. 1630)
Material:  Paper
Subjects:  Poetry
Dogma -- Islamic theology
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

تخميس العشرينيات  

Publication Date:  [18th century?]
Publisher:  holographic manuscript
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  23 cm.
Subjects:  Takhmis
Devotional poetry, Arabic
الشعر تعبدي العربية
Poésie de dévotion arabe
Arabisch hingebungsvollen Poesie
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Mukhtaṣar fī al-ʿibādāt ʿalā madhhab al-imām Mālik by Abd al-Raḥmān b. Muḥammad al-Ṣaghīr al-Akhḍārī al-Bunṭyūsī al-Mālikī (d. 1585)  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Creator:  Abū Bakr ibn al-Māhir ʾAwanā
al-ʿĀlim Jibrīl al-Mangawīyyu (whose teacher was Al-Māhir Abāca Būkar
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  17 cm.
Subjects:  law
fiqh
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Amulet  

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.

Man In The Moon 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

[Qur'an annotated in Old Kanembu] : Kano manuscript  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  9.5 cm.
Subjects:  Qur'an
القرآن الكريم
Coran
Koran
Qurʼan -- Commentaries
القرآن الكريم - تفسير
Coran -- Commentaires
Koran -- Kommentare
Qurʼan -- Interpretation, etc. -- Nigeria
القرآن الكريم - تفسير، الخ - نيجيريا
Coran -- Interprétation, etc -- Nigéria
Koran -- Auslegung, usw. -- Nigeria
Qur'an. Old Kanembu.
Coran. Vieil kanembou.
Koran. Alt-Kanembu
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

[al-ʿaqāʾid al-tawḥīdiyya and 99 beautiful names of Allah]  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Creator:  Ibrāhīm, the student of Alhaji al-Māhir (Goni) Abūbakar Wujeu (Wujô)
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  22 cm.
Subjects:  Théologie islamique
Islamische Theologie
Dogma
Dogma -- Nigeria
Théologie islamique -- Nigéria
Islamische Theologie -- Nigeria
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Poem by Muḥammad Sāliḥ bn Marḥūmi  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Creator:  Muḥammad Sāliḥ bn Marḥūmi
Adam ibn Ibrahim
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  28 cm.
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Mutane mu lura da lahira zamu tabbata  

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

[Imam Kura Nguigmibe reading while seated before a copy of "Argumentaire islamique sur l'équité de genre"]  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Material:  Paper
Subjects:  Imams
أئمة
Imame
Nguigmibe, Kura, Grand Imam
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Unidentified item  

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