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Manuscript/Mixed Material Kitāb al-malāḥah fī ʻilm al-filāḥah كتاب الملاحة في علم الفلاحة / / ʻAlam al-malāḥah fī ʻilm al-filāḥah

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Title

  • Kitāb al-malāḥah fī ʻilm al-filāḥah

Other Title

  • كتاب الملاحة في علم الفلاحة /
  • ʻAlam al-malāḥah fī ʻilm al-filāḥah

Summary

  • According to Ismāʻīl Bāshā Bābānī's Kitāb īḍāḥ al-maknūn fī al-dhayl ʻalá Kashf al-ẓunūn, this text is a summary of Jāmiʻ fawāʼid al-malāḥah, by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Raḍī al-Ghazzī; it consists of 10 chapters and an epilogue.
  • The author of this work, Abd al-Gani ibn Isma'il al-Nabulusi (1641-1731), is considered one of the most influential and prolific Syrian writers of his time. He was affiliated with the Sufi orders of the Naqšbandiyya and the Qādirīyya and produced an impressive number of works in the fields of mysticism, theology, and poetry. He traveled extensively in the Islamic world and recorded his adventures in narratives that touch upon his private mystical experiences and the intellectual milieu of the 18th-century Islamic centers. This manuscript contains a copy of al-Nabulusi's treatise on agriculture, which in turn is an abridged version of the Jāmi' farā'id al-malāha fī jawāmi' fawā'id al-filāhah (The collection of the duties of elegance in the various aspects of the interests of agriculture) by the Syrian author Radī al-Dīn al-Gazzī al-'Amirī (died 1529). The ten chapters of the treatise, the titles of which are rubricated in this manuscript, deal with the different kinds of soils, their irrigation, the planting of trees and the care required to keep them healthy, techniques of grafting, and other useful advice for growing plants and trees and ensuring their productivity. World Digital Library.

Names

  • Nābulusī, ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʻīl, 1641-1731
  • Ellis, Alexander George, 1858-1942, former owner
  • Muftīʹzādah al-Sayyid Muṣṭafá Najīb, former owner
  • Nābulusī, ʻAbd Allah ibn ʻUmar ibn Muṣṭafá ibn Ismaʻīl ibn ʻAbd al-Ghanī, scribe
  • Raḍī al-Ghazzī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1457 or 1458-1528 or 1529

Created / Published

  • 5 Rajab 1270 H [3 April 1854].

Headings

  • -  Agriculture--Early works to 1800
  • -  Botany--Pre-Linnean works
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Binding: Leather.
  • -  Fol. 1a-109b.
  • -  Leaf facing t.p. has bookseller's label: "Hasan (al-Qabul, known as Abdul Ghani) a treatise in Arabic on agriculture composed from the works of various ancient authors, written in good Naskh on 109 ll., rubricated. According to the colophon, this is a copy from the original Ms. and was transcribed by Abdullah ... son of the author in the month of Rajab, the year 1270 A.H. = A.D. 1853. In leather binding with flap. A most interesting work of its kind. £3:0:0"
  • -  Library of Congress. Arabic manuscript, SM-36.
  • -  Ms.
  • -  Naskhī script: 21 lines in written area, 17 x 9 cm.
  • -  Paper: cream, with watermarks, of varying thickness, in good condition. Red ink on title page, black and red ink in text. Marginal notes, catchwords on rectos.
  • -  Previously owned by Muftī Zādah al-Sayyid Muṣṭafá Najīb, a judge in Damascus, and Alexander George Ellis.
  • -  Transcribed by ʻAbd Allah ibn ʻUmar ibn Muṣṭafá ibn Ismaʻīl ibn ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī, a descendant of the author, on 5 Rajab 1270 H.
  • -  Fihris al-makhṭūṭāt al-ʻArabīyah fi Maktabat al-Kūnghris, 29.
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Incipit: الحمد لله الذي أنزل من السماء ماء فأحيا به الأرض وأخرج ثمرات كل شئ بقدرته كما يخرج الخلائق يوم العرض، والصلوة والسلام على سيدنا محمد الذي بين لنا المشروع وغير المشروع وكمل بالسنة وألزم بالغرض وعلى جميع أله وأصحابه وعترته وأنصاره وأحزابه....

Medium

  • 107 leaves (21 lines), bound : paper ; 24 x 15 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • S515 .N33 1854

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2008401694

Online Format

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Nābulusī, ʻAbd Al-Ghanī Ibn IsmāʻĪl, Alexander George Ellis, Former Owner MuftīʹZādah Al-Sayyid Muṣṭafá Najīb, ʻAbd Allah Ibn ʻUmar Ibn Muṣṭafá Ibn IsmaʻĪl Ibn ʻAbd Al-Ghanī Nābulusī, and Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad Raḍī Al-Ghazzī. Kitāb Al-Malāḥah Fī ʻilm Al-Filāḥah. [5 Rajab H 3 April 1854, 1854] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/2008401694/.

APA citation style:

Nābulusī, ʻ. A. I. I., Ellis, A. G., MuftīʹZādah Al-Sayyid Muṣṭafá Najīb, F. O., Nābulusī, ʻ. A. I. ʻ. I. M. I. I. I. ʻ. A. & Raḍī Al-Ghazzī, M. I. M. (1854) Kitāb Al-Malāḥah Fī ʻilm Al-Filāḥah. [5 Rajab H 3 April 1854] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2008401694/.

MLA citation style:

Nābulusī, ʻAbd Al-Ghanī Ibn IsmāʻĪl, et al. Kitāb Al-Malāḥah Fī ʻilm Al-Filāḥah. [5 Rajab H 3 April 1854, 1854] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2008401694/>.