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¶ § 606. Nūr al-Dīn ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Samhūdī was born at Samhūd (Upper Egypt) in Safar 844/1440. Having settled at al-Madīnah, he devoted himself to the welfare of the town, the study of its history and the instruction of its inhabitants. From the Sulṭān Qāʾit-Bey he obtained money for the repair of the Prophet’s Mosque and he himself bought and repaired the house of Tamīm al-Dārī. He became S̲h̲aik̲h̲ al-Islām at al-Madīnah and died there in 911/1506.

Arabic original: K̲h̲ulāṣat al-Wafā bi-ak̲h̲bār Dār al-Muṣṭafā, completed ah 893/1488, a history and topography of al-Madīnah, being an abridgment of the author’s Wafāʾ al-wafā bi-ak̲h̲bār Dār al-Muṣṭafā, itself an abridgment of his exhaustive work Iqtifāʾ al-wafā bi-ak̲h̲bār Dār al-Muṣṭafā, which was lost in the fire which destroyed the Prophet’s Mosque in 886/1481. Editions: [Bulāq,] 1285/1869°, Mecca 1316/1898–9 (see Ency. Isl. under al-Samhūdī).

For further information see Brockelmann ii 173–4, Ency. Isl. loc. cit., and Bānkīpūr Arabic Catalogue, vol. xv, p. 179.

Persian translations:

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Tārīk̲h̲ i Madīnah, by S̲h̲ihāb al-Dīn Daulatābādī¹ (d. ah 849/1445 or earlier, see p. 8 supra): Lindesiana p. 215 (also 225 ?) no. 436 (ah 1130/1718).

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Ak̲h̲bār i ḥasīnah dar ak̲h̲bār i Madīnah, completed by an anonymous translator ah 969/1561–2 (see Bodl. 139) and divided like the original into eight Bābs: Bodleian 138 (large lacuna in Bāb i. ah 993/1585), 139 (very defective. ah 1132/1720 ?), Berlin 532a (al-Madīnah, ah 998/1590), Ethé 719 (ah 1004/1596), Būhār 101 (18th cent.), Ivanow 281 (18th cent.).

§ 607. ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq b. Saif al-Dīn Dihlawī, who has already been mentioned as the author of the Madārij al-nubuwwah (pp. 152 supra), of a commentary on al-Fīrūzābādī’s Sufar al-saʿādah (p. 142 supra) and of the Aḥwāl i Aʾimmah i It̲h̲nāʿas̲h̲ar (p. 168 supra), died in 1052/1642.

Jad̲h̲b al-qulūb ilā diyār al-maḥbūb, a history and topography of al-Madīnah, begun at al-Madīnah ah 998/1589–90 and completed at Delhi ah 1001/1592–3: Bānkīpūr vii 643 (ah 1048/1638), 644 (ah 1102/1691), Ethé 720 (ah 1061/1651), 721 (ah 1149/1736), 722 (n.d.), i.o. D.P. 622A (ah 1221/1807), 622B (= 632 (ii) B) (early 19th cent.), Ivanow 2nd Suppt. 934 (early 18th cent.), Āṣafīyah ii p. 876 no. 13 (ah 1148/1735–6), Berlin 533, ¶ Browne Suppt. 355 (King’s 134), Buk̲h̲ārā Semenov 59, Tashkent Kahl p. 30.

Editions: Calcutta 1847°*, Lucknow 1282/1865–6 (see Ethé 720), 1869°*, Cawnpore 1893°.

§ 608. Miscellaneous works relating to Arabia:

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Ak̲h̲bār al-Madīnah: Āṣafīyah i p. 218 no. 516.

(2)

Jawāhir al-taʾrīk̲h̲ dar binā i Makkah i mukarramah, in 12 chapters, translated from an Arabic original: Rehatsek p. 72 (ah 1161/1748).

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Muraqqaʿ i Karbalā, a history and topography of Karbalāʾ, by Iʿjāz Ḥusain. Edition: Amrōhah 1904°.

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Persian Gulf, The, by Sir Arnold Wilson. Persian translation by M. Saʿīdī. Edition: Ṭihrān [ahs. 1310/1931–2] (see jras. 1933 p. 534).

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Short account of the Wahhābī incursions into al-Ḥijāz and al-Yaman in 1217/1802–3 and 1218/1803–4, by Muns̲h̲ī Ḥājjī ʿAbd Allāh Makkī: Rieu ii 861a (Add. 26,275 foll. 33–5) (19th cent.).

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Tārīk̲h̲ i Baṣrah, by M. Ḥasan K̲h̲ān “Badīʿ”. [Calcutta 1914°*.]

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Ẓuhūrīyah i Ṣafawīyah, a short work (11 foll.) on the rise and rule of the Wahhābīs in al-Najaf with prophecies of their expulsion and of the restoration of the holy places to the descendants of the martyrs:² Edinburgh 87 (ah 1222/1807).

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