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
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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
Arabic manuscript on watermarked paper, 36 leaves, 23 lines to the page written in naskh in black ink, titles in red, in leather binding, with flap
22 by 16cm.
The text seems to be unrecorded in Brockelman and other reference texts but a copy of it is recorded in the al-Azhar library, Cairo, and a thesis written by Ayed Mustafa Faris Abu Arra (An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine, 2015) investigates the text, its content and transmission. The volume is divided into four chapters and deals with the holy sites of Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem and Hebron.