Tawḍīḥ al-Nasamah al-nafḥīyah توضيح النسمة النفحية Maqdisī, ʿAlī ibn Ghānim مقدسي، علي بن غانم

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Author's self-commentary on al-Nasamah al-nafḥīyah , a versification by ʿAlī ibn Ghānim al-Maqdisī (علي بن غانم المقدسي, d. 1596) of the Fatḥīyah Treatise on the Use of the Sine Quadrant (الرسالة الفتحية في العمل بالربع المجيب) in twenty chapters (باب) by Badr al-Dīn Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Shāfi‘ī al-Miṣrī al-Dimashqī (بدر الدين أبو عبد الله محمد بن محمد بن أحمد الشافعي المصري الدمشقي, b. 1423, d. 1490), known as Sibṭ al-Māridīnī (سبط المارديني), timekeeper (موقّت) of the al-Azhar Mosque at Cairo.

A copy of al-Nasmah al-nafḥīyah (النسمة النفحية) precedes the present text (ff. 52r-57r).

The colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. to the present copy states that it was transcribed from a copy made from a copy in the hand of Ibrāhīm al-Laqānī (إبراهيم اللقاني, d. 1631), an Egyptian Mālikī scholar and theologian (see colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. , f. 73, lines 10-11, transcribed below).

Begins (f. 57v, lines 2-4):

الحمد لله الهاد إلى صوب الصواب والصلاة والسلام على سيدنا محمد والآل والأصحاب وبعد فهذا

توضيح لنظم الرسالة الفتحية والأعمال المجيبية طلبه مني جمع من الإخوان في ذلك

ولدي عبد الرحمن وقفه الله تعالى لصالح العمل وبلغه من الخيرات غاية الأمل

Ends (f. 73r, lines 9-10):

وحين انتهى النسخ بهذا الشرح المبارك بحمد الله تعالى وحسن عونه وصلى الله على سيدنا ومولانا محمد

وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم تسليمًا...

Colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 73r, lines 10-11):

...ونقلت هذه النسخة من نسخة نقلت من خط الشيخ ابراهيم

اللقاني نفعنا الله ببركاته آمين بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله على سيدنا ومولانا محمد

Extent and format

Ff. 57v-73r

It is part of

A collection of treatises on astronomical instruments and their use

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Ref: Add MS 9598

Written in

Arabic in Arabic script

Type

Manuscript item

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Original held at

British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

Add MS 9598, ff 57v-73r

History of this record

Date(s)

ca 1650-1700 (CE, Gregorian)

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Finding aids

Cureton, William and Charles Rieu, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens (London: The British Museum, 1846-71), Item 407, v, p. 193

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Study:

• Rosenfeld, B. A. and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu, Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th-19th c.), (Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003), no. 1031, p. 342 (A3)

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ʿAlī ibn Ghānim Maqdisī

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Tawḍīḥ al-Nasamah al-nafḥīyah توضيح النسمة النفحية Maqdisī, ʿAlī ibn Ghānim مقدسي، علي بن غانم, British Library: Oriental Manuscripts, Add MS 9598, ff 57v-73r, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100157836372.0x000005> [accessed 27 June 2026]

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