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(10) Sunan, the Traditions o£ Muhammad compiled by Abu 

 Da'iid Sulaiman al-Sijistani, in 10 juz\ 13th century. Fol. 



(11) Majazat al-Kur'an, an exposition of the metaphors and 

 other figures o£ speech used in the Kur'an, by al-Shari£ Rida 

 Muh.b.al-Husain al-MCisawi. 13th century. 12°. No copy seems 

 to be recorded. 



(12) Ru'us al-masa'il, a catechism on fundamentals of Islam. 

 13-14th century. 12°. Apparently otherwise unknown. 



(13) Lives of Muhammad, his relatives of the tribe of Kuraish, 

 and others, by Muh.b.Sa'id b.'Ali ibn al-Hajjaj. Copied a.h. 728 

 (a.d. 1328). 4°. Apparently not known. 



(14) Zubdat al-fikrah, a history of Islam down to a.d. 724, by 

 al-Amir Rukn al-Din Baibars al-Mansiiri al-Dawadar. Vol. 3, from 

 42 to 121 A.H. 14th century. 8°. No other copy of vol. 3 

 seems to be on record. 



(15) Tahdib al-kamal, being Ibn al-Naj jar's Kitab al-kamal, 

 biographies of Traditionists, revised and greatly augmented by 

 al-Mizzi. Vol. 1. 14-1 5th century. 4°. Very scarce. 



(16) Diwan of Muh.ibn al-Ablah. Copied a.h. 881 (a.d.. 

 1476). 8°. No other complete copy of this collection of poems 

 seems to be known. 



(17) Matalib al-su'ul, lives of descendants of Muhammad. 

 Copied A.H. 941 (a.d. 1534-5). 8°. No copy appears* to be 

 recorded. 



(18) A history of the 'Abbilsl Caliphs from Harun al-Rashid to 

 Mutawakkil, by an anonymous Tunisian author ; with appendices on 

 the Governors of Tunis under the 'Abbasis, etc. 18th century. 

 4°. Not otherwise known. 



(19) Diwan or poems of Ghulam 'Ali Azad, styled Hassan i 

 Hind. 18th century. 8°. Apparently not on record. 



(20) Al-Tiraz, a lexicon by 'Ali Sadr al-Din al-Husaini 

 al-Hasani. Copied a.h. 1277 (a.d. 1860-61). Fol. Apparently 

 not otherwise known. 



C/miese MSS. and Books.— (1) About 6,000 MSS. and prints of 

 religious and secular literature, documents, etc., acquired by Sir 

 M. Aurel Stein in the course of his second expedition to Chinese 

 TuKkestan. 



Persian MSS. — (1) A work on Moslem theology and ethics, 

 composed about 500 a.h. 13th century. 4°. Apparently other- 

 wise unknown. 



(2) Kulliyat or Divan, the collected poems of Khvaju. Copied 

 a.h. 970. 4°. Contains some poems of great rarity. 



(3) Kitab al-bahirah, an encyclopfedia of history, biography, 

 etc., by Fuzimi Astarabadi. Copied a.h. 1263 (a.d. 1847). Fol. 

 Extremely rare. 



