Kitāb al-Anwār wa-al-asrār al-mushīr ilá ʻilm al-taksīr : manuscript, undated

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين والحمد لله المتعال الكريم ... :Incipit

Writings on Islamic divination : manuscript, [ca. 1592]

Title supplied by cataloger.

Risālah-ʼi istidlālīyah

li-ʻUthmān ibn Muṣṭafá al-Ṭarasūsī.

Language-specific aspects of reading acquisition: the case of Russian

We have investigated Russian children’s reading acquisition during an intermediate period in their development: after literacy onset, but before they have acquired well-developed decoding skills. The results of our study suggest that Russian first graders rely primarily on phonemes and syllables as reading grain-size units. Phonemic awareness seems to have reached the metalinguistic level more rapidly than syllabic awareness after the onset of reading instruction, the reversal which is typical for the initial stages of formal reading instruction creating external demand for phonemic awareness. Another reason might be the inherent instability of syllabic boundaries in Russian. We have shown that body-coda is a more natural representation of subsyllabic structure in Russian than onset-rime. We also found that Russian children displayed variability of syllable onset and offset decisions which can be attributed to the lack of congruence between syllabic and morphemic word division in Russian. We suggest that fuzziness of syllable boundary decisions is a sign of the transitional nature of this stage in the reading development and it indicates progress towards an awareness of morphologically determined closed syllables. Our study also showed that orthographic complexity exerts an influence on reading in Russian from the very start of reading acquisition. Besides, we found that Russian first graders experience fluency difficulties in reading orthographically simple words and nonwords of two and more syllables. The transition from monosyllabic to bisyllabic lexical items constitutes a certain threshold, for which the syllabic structure seemed to be of no difference. When we compared the outcomes of the Russian children with the ones produced by speakers of other languages, we discovered that in the tasks which could be performed with the help of alphabetic recoding Russian children’s accuracy was comparable to that of children learning to read in relatively shallow orthographies. In tasks where this approach works only partially, Russian children demonstrated accuracy results similar to those in deeper orthographies. This pattern of moderate results in accuracy and excellent performance in terms of reaction times is an indication that children apply phonological recoding as their dominant strategy to various reading tasks and are only beginning to develop suitable multiple strategies in dealing with orthographically complex material. The development of these strategies is not completed during Grade 1 and the shift towards diversification of strategies apparently continues in Grade 2.

'They Shall Speak the Arabic Language and Take Pride in it': reconsidering the fate of Coptic after the Arab Conquest

The complaints on the adoption of Arabic by the Copts that are voiced by the Apocalypse of Pseudo-Samuel have often been quoted as the expiring words of the dying Coptic language. This article seeks to show that they are not to be taken so literally, and that they should rather be inserted in the context of a rift within the medieval Coptic church over the question of language choice, and beyond this, over that of accommodation with the Muslims. The use of Arabic by the episcopal church of Miṣr and by some prominent figures around it, which was linked to their proximity to the Fatimid court, was resented and denounced by more traditional circles, centred on the Patriarchate and on some important monasteries such as the one at Qalamūn where the Apocalypse was written. The suggestion is also made that the text is contemporary with the beginning of Coptic literary production in Arabic and with the introduction of Egyptian Christians at the caliphal court, namely in the last quarter of the tenth century, at the time of Severus ibn al-Muqqafa‘.

Kitāb-i Ādāb al-mulūk

[Muḥammad Rafīʻ ibn ʻAlī Aṣghar al-Ṭabāṭabāʼī].

ʻIqd al-ajyād fī al-ṣāfināt al-jiyād

taʼlīf Muḥammad najl al-Amīr ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jazāʼirī al-Ḥasanī.

Hādhihi taʻlīqah laṭīfah fī-mā yataʻallaq bi-qawl al-Nabīy ṣallá Allāhu ʻalayhi wa-sallam "ḥubbiba ilayya min dunyākum al-nisāʼ wa-al-ṭīb wa-juʻilat qurrat ʻaynī fī al-ṣalāt" / taʼlīf al-Shaykh al-Imām al-Ālim al-Allāmah wa-al-baḥr al-fahhāmah Shaykh al-Islām wa-al-muslimīn ʻumdat al-fuqahāʼ wa-al-muḥaddithīn Sayyidī Abū al-Suʻūd ibn Tāj al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Zakī al-Dīn al-Khazrajī al-Shāfiʻī : manuscript, 1685

Written in one column, 15 lines per page, in black rubricated in red. Title written in green and red ink.

Risālat Taʻrīf al-ṣirāh fī sulūk al-ghuzāh / min taʼlīf ʻAlī ibn Ḥusām al-Dīn al-Hindī al-mashhūr bi-al-Muttaqī : manuscript, undated

Written in one column, 9 lines per page, in black ink.

Kitāb Tuḥfat al-silāk fī faḍl al-siwāk / min kalām sayyidinā al-Shaykh al-ʻĀrif billāh taʻālá al-Shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad al-Zāhid : manuscript, undated

Written in several hands, in one column, 23-24 lines per page, in black rubricated in red.

Hādhihi risālah sanīyah wa-maqāmah bahīyah al-musammāh bi-Inbāʼ al-azkiyāʼ bi-taḥbīb al-ṭīb wa-al-nisāʼ ilá Sayyid al-anbiyāʼ / lil-ʻĀlim al-Amjad al-Mawlawī Niẓām al-Dīn Aḥmad : manuscript, 1884

Written in one column, 13 lines per page, in black and red.

Hādhā Kitāb fī uṣūl al-dīn / lil-Imām al-Nasafī : manuscript, undated

1. Kitāb fī uṣūl al-dīn (ff. 1r-38v) -- 2. al-ʻAqīdah al-Ṭaḥāwīyah (ff. 39r-47r) -- 3. Muqaddimat Abī al-Layth (ff. 47v-63v) -- 4. Kitāb al-Arbaʻīn lil-Mundhirī (ff. 64r-70v) -- 5. Fāʼidah wa-mimmā naqalahu al-Shaykh Zarrūq al-Maghribī al-Mālikī ʻalá Sharh asmāʼ al-ḥusná manāfiʻ al-asmāʼ al-Idrisīyah al-Suhrawardīyah (ff. 71r-78r) -- 6. Fāʼidah jalīlah fī faḍāʼil ṣawm Ramaḍān (ff. 78r-96r).

Muqaddimah fī al-shudūd al-ḥarīr al-khāliṣah wa-bayʻihā li-man yalbasuhā / lil-Shaykh ʻUmar ibn Yūsuf al-Ḥanafī : manuscript, 1760

Unbound.

Kitāb Tuḥfat al-ʻarūs wa-fākihat al-nufūs / taʼlīf al-Shaykh al-Imām Abī Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Shaykh Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Tijānī : manuscript, 1558

Written in one column, 21 lines per page, in black and red.

Tuffāḥat al-taʻazzī wa-tuḥfat al-muʻizzī : manuscript, undated

Missing leaves at beginning.