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Arts of the Islamic World
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101. TWO ILLUMINATED QUR’AN SECTIONS, NORTH AFRICA OR SPAIN, DATED 802 AH/1400 AD

102. AN ILLUMINATED QUR’AN BIFOLIUM, MESOPOTAMIA, PROBABLY BAGHDAD, 13TH/14TH CENTURY

103. AN ILLUMINATED QUR'AN LEAF IN MAGHRIBI SCRIPT, ANDALUSIA, LATE 12TH-13TH CENTURY AD

104. AN EARLY QUR'AN LEAF IN HIJAZI SCRIPT ON VELLUM, ARABIAN PENINSULA, SECOND HALF 7TH CENTURY AD

105. A QUR’AN LEAF IN KUFIC SCRIPT ON VELLUM, NORTH AFRICA OR NEAR EAST, 9TH CENTURY AD

106. TWO CONSECUTIVE QUR’AN LEAVES IN MAGHRIBI SCRIPT, NORTH AFRICA OR ANDALUSIA, LATE 12TH-13TH CENTURY AD

107. A LARGE QUR'AN LEAF IN GOLD KUFIC SCRIPT ON BLUE VELLUM, NEAR EAST, NORTH AFRICA OR SOUTHERN SPAIN, 9TH-10TH CENTURY AD

108. ABU’L-FADL ‘IYAD IBN MUSA ‘IYAD AL-YAHSUBI (D.1149-50 AD), KITAB AL-SHIFA’ FI TA’RIF HUQUQ AL-MUSTAFA ('THE RESTORATION TO HEALTH IN THE EXPLANATION OF THE PREROGATIVES OF THE ELECT'), A BIOGRAPHY OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD, COPIED BY ‘ABDALLAH AL-SHIBYANI AL-BAGHDADI, SYRIA, DAMASCUS, MAMLUK, DATED 763 AH/1361-62 AD

109. AN ILLUMINATED QUR’AN JUZ (IV), EGYPT OR SYRIA, MAMLUK, CIRCA 1400

110. RADI AL-DIN ABU'L-FADA'IL AL-HASAN IBN MUHAMMAD B. AL-HASAN AL-SAGHANI AL-'ADAWI AL-HINDI AL-HANAFI (D.1252-53 AD), MASHRIQ AL-ANWAR AL-NABAWIYA MIN SIHAH AL-AKHBAR AL-MUSTAFAWIYA, A COLLECTION OF TRADITIONS, NEAR EAST, 14TH CENTURY

111. AN ILLUMINATED MINIATURE QUR’AN IN FITTED BOX, TURKEY, OTTOMAN, DATED 951 AH/1544 AD

112. FIVE MONUMENTAL QUR’AN AJZA' (II, XIV, XV, XXI AND XXVII), PERSIA, EARLY 14TH CENTURY

113. DIYA' AL-DIN ABU MUHAMMAD ʿABDULLAH IBN AHMED AL-MALAQI, KNOWN AS IBN AL-BAYTAR (D.1248 AD), A SECTION FROM KITAB AL-MUGNI FI'L-ADWIYA AL-MUFRADA, NEAR EAST OR EGYPT, MAMLUK, EARLY 14TH CENTURY

114. ZAYN AL-DIN JURJANI (D.1136 AD), ZAKHIRAH-I KHWARAZMSHAHI ('TREASURY DEDICATED TO THE KING OF KHWARAZMSHAHI'), AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF MEDICAL SCIENCE, PERSIA, LATE 15TH/EARLY 16TH CENTURY, WITH LATER ANNOTATIONS IN HEBREW

115. NAJIB AL-DIN AL-SAMARQANDI (D.1222 AD), KITAB AL-ASBAB WA'AL-‘ALAMAT (‘THE CAUSES OF ILLNESSES AND THEIR SYMPTOMS AND THEIR TREATMENTS’) COPIED BY MUHAMMED B. ABI BAKIR AL-NISHAPURI, CENTRAL ASIA, DATED 594 AH/1197 AD

116. ABU ‘ALI YAHYA B. ‘ISA B. JAZLAH AL-BAGHDADI, KNOWN AS BEN GESLA (D.1099 AD), KITAB MINHAJ AL-BAYAN FI-MA YASTA’MILUHU AL-INSAN, ('A SYSTEMATIC EXPOSITION OF WHAT IS USED BY MAN'), MESOPOTAMIA OR WEST PERSIA, LATE 13TH/14TH CENTURY

117. DAUD B. ‘UMAR AL-DARIR AL-ANTAKI (D.1599), TADHKIRA ULI AL-ALBAB WA'L-JAMI’ LI AL-AJAB AL-UJAB, A MEDICAL COMPENDIUM, NEAR EAST, OTTOMAN, DATED 1108 AH/1697 AD

118. ABU AL-MAJID AL-TABIB AL-BAYDAWI, KITAB TASHRIH, COPIED BY ABU AL-QASIM AL-HASANI, PERSIA, QAJAR, DATED 1233 AH/1818 AD

119. 'ALI B. AL-‘ABBAS AL-MAJUSI (LATINISED AS 'HALY ABBAS', D. CIRCA 994 AD), KITAB KAMIL AL-SINA’AH AL-TIBBIYAH ('THE COMPLETE BOOK OF THE MEDICAL ART'), COPIED BY SALAMALLAH B. HABIBALLAH B. MUHAMMED, PERSIA, SAFAVID, DATED 990-91 AH/1582-84 AD

120. TWO MEDICAL TREATISES COPIED BY MUHAMMED AL-RAFA'I AL-ALAWI AL-HUSSEINI: AL-HARUNI, 'THE MANAGEMENT OF APOTHECARY', AND IBN AL-NAFIS, CHAPTER II FROM KITAB AL-MUHADHDHAB, AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF OPHTHALMOLOGY, COPIED BY MUHAMMED B. AL-SAYYED AHMAD AL-RAFA’I AL-ALAWI AL-HUSSEINI, MECCA, ARABIAN PENINSULA, OTTOMAN, DATED 1055 AH/1645-46 AD

121. AN ILLUMINATED QUR’AN JUZ (XXIX), COPIED BY ZAYN AL-‘ABIDIN B. MUHAMMAD AL-KATIB, PERSIA, AQQOYUNLU, DATED 888 AH/1483 AD

122. AN ILLUMINATED QUR’AN JUZ (XX), EGYPT, MAMLUK, CIRCA 1380 AD

123. NASIR AL-DIN AL-TUSI (D.1274 AD), MUKHTASAR FI MA’RIFAT AL-TAQWIM WA ‘ALAM AL TANJIM, ON THE CALENDAR AND ASTRONOMY, COPIED BY ‘ALI B. MUHAMMED B. ‘ALI, KNOWN AS AL-SHARIF AL-JURJANI, CENTRAL ASIA, 15TH CENTURY

124. AN OTTOMAN QIBLA INDICATOR, TURKEY, 19TH CENTURY

125. AN ELEGANT SAFAVID CELESTIAL GLOBE AND FRAME, PERSIA, 17TH CENTURY, PROBABLY ISFAHAN

126. A COTTON TALISMANIC SHIRT (JAMA), INDIA, SULTANATE, 14TH/15TH CENTURY

127. 'ABDULLAH B. MUHAMMAD B. MUHAMMAD AL-KHAWWAM AL-BAGHDADI (D.1325 AD): AL-FAWA'ID AL-BAHA'IA FI AL-QAWA'ID AL-HISABIYA, ON GEOMETRY, ALGEBRA AND ARITHMETIC, NEAR EAST, DATED 735 AH/1335 AD

128. A SAFAVID BRASS HORIZONTAL DIAL AND QIBLA INDICATOR, SIGNED BY MUHAMMAD MAHDI AL-YAZDI, PERSIA, SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY

129. A SAFAVID ENGRAVED QIBLA-INDICATOR WITH COMPASS AND MARKINGS TO MECCA AND MEDINA, SIGNED BY MUHAMMAD KHALIL IBN HASAN 'ALI, PERSIA, DATED 1080 AH/1669 A

130. KITAB USUL AL-FIQH, COPIED BY MAHMOUD B. MAHMOUD B. ALI AL-MAFAHIR AL-SIWASI, NEAR EAST, DATED 722 AH/1322-23 AD

131. SALAH AL-DIN MUSA B. MUHAMMAD B. MAHMUD QADI-ZADA AL-RUMI (D.1140 CA), SHARH ASHKAL AL-TASIS, A COMMENTARY ON THE ELEMENTS OF GEOMETRY, NEAR EAST, MAMLUK, 15TH CENTURY

132. AYN AL-QUDAT HAMADANI (D.1130 AD), TAMHIDAT, ON MYSTICISM, COPIED BY ABU’L-MAKARIM B. ‘ALI AL-MURSHIDI, PERSIA, TIMURID OR AQQOYUNLU, DATED 866 AH/1461-62 AD

133. ABU MUHAMMAD AL-QASIM B. ALI MUHAMMAD B. UTHMAN AL-HARIRI (D.1122 AD), ALSO KNOWN AS AL-HARIRI AL-BASRAHM, AL-MAQAMAT, COPIED BY MUHAMMAD B. AL-HAJ AL-TAHIR AL-HAJ BATWA, NORTH AFRICA OR SPAIN, DATED 1114 AH/1702 AD

134. MAHMUD B. SAWANDAK B. HUSSEIN B. AMIN (D.1481), FADA’IL AL-BELAD AL-ARBA’A, A GUIDE TO MECCA, MEDINA, JERUSALEM AND HEBRON, COPIED BY ABDUL ‘ALI, OTTOMAN PROVINCES, DATED 1251 AH/1835 AD

135. A LARGE ILLUMINATED QUR’AN JUZ (XIX), PERSIA, SAFAVID, 16TH CENTURY

136. A LARGE ILLUMINATED QUR’AN, INDIA, MUGHAL, 16TH CENTURY

138. A COMPILATION OF TEXTS BY DIFFERENT AUTHORS ON VARIOUS TOPICS, INCLUDING OTTOMAN ADMINISTRATION, QUR’ANIC TEXTS AND POETRY, WITH TWO CALLIGRAPHIC EXERCISES COPIED BY DERVISH MUSTAFA VIZEVI, TURKEY, OTTOMAN, SECOND HALF 18TH CENTURY

139. AN ILLUMINATED MINIATURE QUR’AN, TURKEY, OTTOMAN, 16TH CENTURY

140. 'ABDULLAH HATIFI, (D.1454 AD), TWO WORKS BOUND IN ONE VOLUME: KHOSROW WA SHIRIN AND TIMURNAMA, PERSIA, KHURASAN AND QAZWIN, SAFAVID, CIRCA 1570-80

141. NIZAMI (D.1209 AD), KHAMSA, COPIED BY QUTB IBN MUHAMMAD, PERSIA, TIMURID, DATED 901-5 AH/1495-99 AD

142. THE FORTY HADITH OF ‘ALI SHIR NAVA‘I, COPIED BY MUN’IM AL-DIN AL-AWHADI, PERSIA, TIMURID, DATED 902 AH/1497 AD

143. NUR AL-DIN 'ABD AL-RAHMAN JAMI (D.1492 AD), SUBHAT AL-ABRAR ('THE ROSARY OF THE DEVOUT'), COPIED BY MIR HUSAYN AL-HUSAYNI AL-HAJI, KNOWN AS MIR KULANGI, PERSIA, SAFAVID, 16TH CENTURY

144. BAHA AL-DIN AL-‘AMILI, A COLLECTION OF WORKS, INDIA, DECCAN, GOLCONDA, DATED 1026 AH/1616-17 AD TO 1056 AH/1646-47 AD

145. AN ILLUMINATED COLLECTION OF PRAYERS, INCLUDING DALA’IL AL-KHAYRAT, COPIED BY AHMAD IBN MUHAMMED AL-HARITHI AL-ANDALUSI AL-SALWI AL-FEZI, MOROCCO, TANGIER, DATED 1114 AH/1702 AD

146. AN ANTHOLOGY OF MYSTICAL VERSE, COPIED BY ‘UMAR FAWZI AL-KUTAHI, TURKEY, OTTOMAN, DATED 1129 AH/1717 AD

147. A BOOK OF ADVICE IN PROSE AND VERSE, INCLUDING QUOTES FROM ‘ABDULLAH ANSARI’S WORKS, SA’DI’S GULISTAN, NIZAMI’S MAKHZAN AL-ASRAR, AND LUQMAN’S ADVICE TO HIS SON, COPIED BY SHAH QASIM, PERSIA, HERAT, SAFAVID, DATED 1014 AH/1605 AD

148. AN ILLUMINATED MINIATURE QUR’AN, TURKEY, OTTOMAN, 18TH CENTURY

149. A QUR’AN, COPIED BY MUHAMMAD IBN ‘ABD AL-QADIR B. IBRAHIM B. AHMAD B. AL-HASANI, NORTH AFRICA, DATED 1197 AH/1783 AD