CXXXV1 ARABIC MANUSCRIPTS. 



141. 



A very old copy of the well-known manual of early Muslim 

 history and biography by the famous 'Abd-Allah B. Qutaybah 

 (d. a.h. 276 = a.d. 889). For details see Br. Mus. Suppl. Ar. 

 Cat. No. 447. The headings are written in KutI character. 

 Written in Arabic Naskh. Dated 500 a.h. Some pages are 

 wanting at the beginning. Time-worn. 



I saw it at Lucknow in the possession of a book-seller 

 Subsequently I found it in the Rampore State Lib. 



Lith. Gcttingen 1850 a.d. and Cairo 1883 a.d. See Cat. 

 Ar. Books. Br. Mus., Vol. 1, p. 17. 



(Rampore State Lib.) 



Biographies. 



142. 



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The work contains the history of Muhammadan Law and 

 the biographies of the early and modern jurists of the Hanafi' 

 School by Md. B. Sulayman al-KafavI who died in ah. 990 

 -a.d 1582. Ahlwardt gives Mahmud instead of Md., see 

 Berl. Lib. Ar. Cat., Vol. IX, No. 10027, where the title of the 



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Brockelmann has misspelt the A'lam and omitted to refer 

 to the Berl. Lib. Cat. ; vide Brock., Vol. II, p. 83. 



The work is written in usual Ta'liq. Transcribed from 

 the copy of Md. Diya' al-Din of Chawgharya of Burdwan. 

 Dated a.h. 1282. 



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( [mperial Lib. | 



143. 



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The work contains eight volumes divided into 14 chapters, 

 i^acn chapter is assigned to a century and contains the bio- 

 graphies of the learned men who flourished in India in that 



centurv. T herfi are a 1-w-in <• o oaa u: i - * !!.. i n A and 



— _— jr. j.„cicareaoout ,*,3U0 biographies of the learnea am 

 eminent Muslims who lived from the 7th to the 20th centuries 

 Author :-M. Hakim <Abd al-Hayy. 



