Kitāb Maʻdan al-yawāqīt al-multamiʻah fī manāqib al-aʼimmah al-arbaʻah : manuscript, undated

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي جعل علماء هذه الأمة في إيضاح الأمور الغمة كابنياء بني إسرائيل... :Incipit

Kitāb al-Futūḥāt al-Kawwāzīyah fī al-siyāḥah ilá al-arāḍī al-Ḥijāzīyah

taʼlīf ʻAbd Allāh Afandī Bāsh Aʻyānʹzādah.

Sharḥ al-Nukhbah fī uṣūl ʻilm al-ḥadīth / lil-ʻAllāmah Ibn Ḥajar : manuscript, 1725 or 1726

Title from f. 1r.

Tarjamat Fayḍ Allāh Afandī : manuscript, undated

Autobiography of Şeyhülislam Feyzullah Efendi.

Hādhihi risālat Iḍāʼat al-badrayn fī tarjamat al-Shaykhayn / lil-ʻAllāmah Sayyidī al-Shaykh Ismāʻīl al-ʻAjlūnī. manuscript, undated

Holograph copy. f. 61r: "hādhihi bi-khaṭṭ al-muʼallif raḥimahu allāh."

Kitāb Ṭabaqāt al-aqṭāb fī dhikr awliyāʼ Allāh taʻālá wa-aqwālihim wa-aḥwālihim ilá intihāʼ ājālihim / taʼlīf al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻĀlim al-ʻAllāmah Taqī al-Dīn al-Subkī : manuscript, 1567

A biographical dictionary of sufis.

Kitāb yusammá bi-al-ʻUqūd al-laʼālī fī al-asānīd al-ʻawālī al-muttaṣilah bi-shaykh shuyūkhinā al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah wa-al-Muḥaqqiq al-mudaqqiq al-fahhāmah al-Sayyid Muḥammad Shākir al-ʻAqqād al-ʻUmarī / taʼlīf tilmīdhihi khātimat al-muḥaqqiqīn al-Sayyid Muḥammad Amīn al-shahīr bi-Ibn ʻĀbidīn : manuscript, 1860

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم حمدا لمن وصل من انقطع اليه برحمته الاولية ورفع على السوى ... :Incipit

Kitāb mashāyikh wa-marwīyāt al-ʻAllāmah Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Nakhlī al-Makkī allafahu fī mashāyikhihi wa-marwīyātih : manuscript, 1744

Unbound.

Thabat al-Shaykh Muḥammad al-Bābilī : manuscript, undated

Written in one column, 49 lines per pages, in black.

al- Jawāb fī al-takrār al-wāqiʻ fī al-Qurʼān al-karīm : manuscript, 1852

Title from f. 1v.

Risālat Rafʻ al-ḍarūrah ʻan ḥajj al-ṣayrūrah / li-Sayyidī ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-shahīr bi-al-Nābulusī al-Dimashqī al-Ḥanafī : manuscript

undated.

Jane Pickens Langley with sister Patti Pickens

General note: Title and date provided by Bettye Lane.

In and out of Africa

"During the colonial period in the 1920's, European interest in collecting African art stimulated a transnational trade between Africa and the West. Today this multi-million dollar trade lies largely in the hands of Muslim merchants. This is a story about Gabai Baare, a merchant who brings 'wood' from West Africa to sell in the United States. It is a story about the meaning of art"--Opening credits.