Author
ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Mīmī al-Baṣrī
Publication Date
14 Friday II 1085 (AH)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Physical Dimensions
228 x 120mm
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Or 14293
Record ID
vdc_100106890134.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
14 Friday II 1085 (AH)
Notes
A wide-ranging treatise on natural phenomena relating to the seas, by ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Mimī al-Baṣrī (Abd al-Qādir ibn Ahmad ibn Ali ibn Mimi al-Basri, d. 1674). The text, also known as
Wary al-zand bi-al-jazr wa-al-madd
(Wari al-Zand Baljazr al-Mad), was composed in 1084/1673 and the present copy was completed, according to a
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(see below, f. 122v, lines 15-16) in a different hand, in Baṣrah on 14 Friday II 1085 (6 September 1674). Folios 1, 2 and 41 are replacements.
The treatise describes the known seas and islands and their associated creatures and marvelous phenomena; seafaring; and the tides and theories concerning their cause. It also discusses various cosmological, astronomical, zodiacal, calendrical, and meteorological subjects and describes regional rivers, citing throughout numerous authorities including relators of
hadīth
, pre-Islamic philosophers and numerous scholars of the Islamic era.
Marginal notes on ff. 35r, 99v and 112r identify the author's frequently-mentioned shaykh (شيخنا) as the pre-eminent theologian and Sufi Ibrāhīm ibn Haṣan al-Kūrānī al-Shahrazūrī al-Shahrānī (1616-1690), said to be Ibn Mīmī's personal teacher (he is the author's sheikh).
Diagrams:
Schematic diagram of the confluence (Bahrain Complex) of the Green (i.e. Atlantic), Black, Persian, and Rūmī (i.e. Mediterranean) seas (f. 18v).
Cosmological diagram (on a replacement folio), showing the relation between the stations of the moon and the seasons of the year, the planets and sublunary creations (f. 41v);
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-5):
Praise be to Allah, Who created the earth and the heavens
One One Crack Crack and Hernia Seven Seven Crack Crack Crack Heaven Raising
By His power and wealth and beauty and healing the earth with His wisdom and wealth
Baljabal.
Ends (f. 122v, lines 11-15):
...five minutes
The court's assessment in the light of the picture on it around the order of the verses of Cairo
والمعجزات الظاهرة ومنها تنشاء الكرامات الباهرة خلق الله
The angels of the heavens have no worship for them except to guide the creation
To the light of truth.
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 122v, lines 15-17):
...This was written (!) in the presence of King Al-Wahab on the eleventh day of the fortieth
In Jamadi al-Thani,
Vacation location in Basra Al-Majid
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Edinme Kaynağı
Purchased 1985
Köken
Note with date Rajab 1262/June-July 1846 [erased] (f. 124r);
Purchase note and seal (name and seal erased) with date 1290/1873-74 (f. 123v);
Ownership note and seal (name and seal erased), with visible date 1323/1905-06 f. 124r).
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Brockelmann, Carl,
History of the Arabic Written Tradition: Volume 2
, trans. by Joep Lameer. Handbook of Oriental studies. Section one, The Near and Middle East; volume 117/2 (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2016), p. 435
Ahlwardt, Wilhelm,
Die Handschriften-verzeichnisse der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin
, Vol. 5 (Berlin: A. Asher & Co, 1893), No. 6053, pp. 377-78
