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Al-Lum‘at Al-Sanīya Fī Taḥqīq Al-Ilqā’ Fi-L--Umnīya By Ibrāhīm Al-Kurānī
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
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Ibrāhīm b. Ḥasan al-Kurānī al-Shahrazūrī al-Shahrānī belonged to the Shāfi‘ī madhhab and was a ṣūfī in the Naqshabandī order. Muḥammad Khalīl al-Murādī in his Silk al-Durarft a‘yān al-Qarn al-thānī ‘ashar (Bulaq 1301/1883, I, 5 f.), states that he was born in 1025/1616 and died in 1101/1697 in Medina. He studied under the best scholars of his day in Damascus, Cairo, and Medina where he finally settled down. His fame spread and pupils came to him from distant lands to attend his lectures in the prophet's mosque. He was the author of more than 100 books and treatises. The Garrett Collection of the Library of Princeton University contains manuscripts of several of them, one being an autograph. The names of many of these will be found in the Silk loc. cit., Brockelmann, GAL, G. n, 505 and S. II, 520, and Ismā‘īl Pasha al- Baghdādī's Dhayl to Ḥājjī Khalīfa, Istanbul, 1951, I, 35 f.
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- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , February 1957 , pp. 291 - 303
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page 291 note 1 I, 1192 f., translated in my Life of Muhammad, 165 f. See further Nöldeke—Schwally, Geschichte des Qorans, I, p. 100 f.
page 292 note 1 Hess, J.J., ZDMG, LXIX, 1915,Google Scholar 385 f., shows that these birds were cranes, and quotes Wilkinson, J.G., The customs and manners of the ancient Egyptians, London, 1877, III, 326,Google Scholar as authority for the statement that they were the phoenixes of the old Egyptians.
page 293 note 1 Brockelmann, GAL, S. II, 529, no. 41.
page 293 note 2 The author's source was Suyūṭī's al-Durr al manthūr, Cairo, 1314,Google Scholar which I have not been able to consult. For the Mukhtāra by Ḍiyā' al-Dīn al-Maqdisī (d. 643/1245), see GAL, S. I, 690, 5, no. 10.
page 293 note 3 He is quoting another form of the tradition which in substance, though not in form, is given by Ṭabarī, I, 1195 f.
page 294 note 1 ed. Fleischer, I, 637.
page 294 note 2 Calcutta, 1856, 911.
page 294 note 3 He means Muhammad b. ‘Alī b. al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥaklm al-Tirmidhī, d. c. 900, GAL, S. I, 355–6, not the better known author of one of the ‘six books’ of tradition.
page 295 note 1 There is no dot under the b, and one would suppose that a genitive should follow. See n. 2, p. 293 above.
page 295 note 2 This seems to be a loose citation from Bukhārī, Faḍāa'il al-ṡaḥāba, 16.
page 299 note 1 MS
page 300 note 1 One would expect
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