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Prayer book in manuscript, consisting of various Surras from the Koran and a number of noted prayers in arabic.

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"This work is a bound codex [Manuscript 419] of 208 leaves. This book is a prayerbook and devotional guide of a personal sort, added to over a period of time in different hands. It probably is the send [sic] of a two-volume set, as it begins with the sixty-second Sūrah of the Qur'ān and in...

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Other title:Qurʼan. Selections.
Qur'an prayer book in manuscript.
Format: Book
Language:Arabic
Donor:Rare Books Collection copy gift of Maureen Van Camp, May 1979.
Subjects:
Manuscripts, Arabic > Specimens.
Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts > Specimens.
Miniature books > Specimens.
Table of Contents:
  • Qur'anic Sūrahs, beginning with no. 62
  • A meditation called Hirz-al-Wazīr ("Refuge of the Minister or Vizier")
  • An ode to Muhammad
  • A small petitionary prayer
  • A story of Gabriel's descending to Muhammed after a battle
  • Praise to God and "refuge taking"
  • Petitionary prayer
  • Section on praise
  • A short petition
  • A section on praising God
  • Treatise on various aspects of Muslim life including prayer, fasting, alms, Pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj), good deeds, marriage, etc.
  • Prayer.

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