Arabic literature
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Or Ms 49: مقامات البدیعي Maqāmāt al-Badī'ī, undated copy (original text composed 10th-11th cent. C.E.)
A collection of forty maqāmahs (discourses) and three additional novelettes, compiled by Badī' al-Zamān b. Ḥusayn, better known as "al-Hamadānī" d. 398 A.H. 1008 C.E.
Or Ms 50: مقامات الحریري Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī, undated copy (original text composed 11th-12th cent. C.E.)
These are the ever popular stories of Abū Muḥammad al-Qāsim b. 'Alī al-Harīrī (d. 516 A.H., 1122 C.E.), who was the most famous prose-writer of his time.
Or Ms 51: مقامات الحریري Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī, 1225 A.H., 1809 C.E.
This is vol. 1 of Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī. These are the ever popular stories of Abū Muḥammad al-Qāsim b. 'Alī al-Harīrī (d. 516 A.H., 1122 C.E.), who was the most famous prose-writer of his time. This is a printed volume.
Or Ms 52: شرح مقامات الحریري Sharḥ Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī, undated
An anonymous commentary upon the Maqāmāt of al-Ḥarīrī, transcribed at Lucknow.
Or Ms 53: المستطرف من کل فن مستظرف al-Mustaṭaraf min kulli fannin mustaẓraf, 1093 A.H., 1681 C.E.
The famous anthology in prose and verse of Muḥammad al-Khaṭib al-Abshīhī (c. 800 A.H., 1397 C.E.).
Or Ms 54: الکشکول al-Kashkūl, undated copy (original text composed 16th cent. C.E.)
The well-known Kashkūl, a collection of a variety of poetry and elegant prose, by Shaykh Bahā, al-Dīn Muḥammad 'Āmilī b. Shaykh Ḥusayn, who flourished during the reign of Shāh 'Abbās the Great, and died at Isfahan 1030 or 1031 A.H. (1621 or 1622 C.E.). He wrote under the name Bahā'ī.
Or Ms 55: نفحة الیمن Nafḥat al-Yaman, 1226 A.H., 1811 C.E.
An Arabic miscellany of compositions in prose and verse, selected or original, by Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Anṣarī al-Yamani al-Shirwānī, who compiled it in Calcutta at the desire of Matthew M. Lumsden, and died there, 1227 A.H. (1812 C.E.).
Or Ms 57: مجنون لیلی العامریه Majnūn Laylá al-'Āmiriyyah, undated
A much celebrated love story, it is in prose, probably written by Ḥabīb b. Rabboh; the numerous verses with which the composition is interspersed are attributed to Majnūn himself (as the story's eponymous hero is named after having fallen in love with Laylá).
Or Ms 58: الف لیله و لیله Alf laylah wa-laylah vol.1, 1229-1233 A.H., 1814 -1818 C.E.
The "Arabian Nights " in the original Arabic; the two volumes (OR MS 58 and 59) contain the stories of 200 nights. The work has been edited by Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Anṣarī al-Yamanī al-Shirwānī, who died Calcutta in 1227 A.H. (1812 C.E.). See Or Ms 55 and 56 for more of his work.
Or Ms 59: الف لیله و لیله Alf laylah wa-laylah vol. 2, 1229-1233 A.H., 1814 -1818 C.E.
The "Arabian Nights " in the original Arabic; the two volumes (OR MS 58 and 59) contain the stories of 200 nights. The work has been edited by Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Anṣarī al-Yamanī al-Shirwānī, who died Calcutta in 1227 A.H. (1812 C.E.). See Or Ms 55 and 56 for more of his work.