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Book/Printed Material The Cusp of Prophetic Lights from the Verified Traditions of Muhammad.

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Title

  • The Cusp of Prophetic Lights from the Verified Traditions of Muhammad.

Summary

  • This Arabic manuscript, dated 1775, is a collection of the sayings of Muhammad by the scholar as-Sagani (died 1252), who was born in India and served as a diplomatic representative of the caliph an-Nasirbillah to India. The traditions are arranged according to grammatical rules. The manuscript is from the Bašagić Collection of Islamic Manuscripts in the University Library of Bratislava, Slovakia, which was inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World register in 1997. Safvet beg Bašagić (1870-1934) was a Bosnian scholar, poet, journalist, and museum director who assembled a collection of 284 manuscript volumes and 365 print volumes that reflect the development of Islamic civilization from its inception to the early 20th century. The manuscript is item 38 in Jozef Blaškovič, Arabské, turecké a perzské rukopisy Univerzitnej knižnice v Bratislave (Arab, Turkish, and Persian manuscripts in the University Library, Bratislava).

Names

  • Ṣaghānī, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad, 1181-1252 Creator.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1775.

Headings

  • -  India
  • -  Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • -  1775
  • -  Islamic manuscripts
  • -  Memory of the World

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 22.5 x 16 centimeters; black, red, gold and blue ink; leather hardcover.
  • -  Original resource at: University Library in Bratislava.
  • -  Content in Arabic.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • Bašagic's Collection of Islamic Manuscripts

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021667169

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Ṣaghānī, Al-Ḥasan Ibn Muḥammad, Creator. The Cusp of Prophetic Lights from the Verified Traditions of Muhammad. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 1775] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667169/.

APA citation style:

Ṣaghānī, A. I. M. (1775) The Cusp of Prophetic Lights from the Verified Traditions of Muhammad. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667169/.

MLA citation style:

Ṣaghānī, Al-Ḥasan Ibn Muḥammad, Creator. The Cusp of Prophetic Lights from the Verified Traditions of Muhammad. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 1775] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021667169/>.