In Volume 1-1: Qurʾānic Literature, History, and Biography | Section 1, Qurʾānic Literature
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§ 96. The subject of Qurʾānic divination is discussed by G. Flügel in an article entitled Die Loosbücher der Muhammadaner published in the Berichte über die ¶ Verhandlungen der K. Sächsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, Phil.-hist. Klasse, xiii 24 foll.
The following are mentioned in the catalogues:—
- (1)
- ascribed to Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq: Āṣafīyah ii p. 1694 (Qurʾānic ?), Berlin 2 (14), Edinburgh 367, Ethé 2264, i.o. d.a. 367, Ivanow 1514, Leyden iii p. 186, Rieu ii 800b.
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- Miscellaneous, mostly metrical:—Ahlwardt 371 fol. 294b, 384 fol. 370b, Aumer Arab. Cat. 12, Berlin 1 (2), 60 (5), 307, 308, Browne, Pers. Cat. 17, Hand-List 771, Cairo Arab. Cat. i p. 81, Dresden no. 252, Edinburgh 150, Ethé 2682, Flügel 1621, i.o. 4142, d.p. 33g, Ivanow 933, 1512, Krafft 366, Leipzig p. 358, Rieu Arab. Cat. 69, de Slane 415, 418, Uri mss. Arab 25.
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- Majmūʿah i Fāl-nāmah i Qurʾānī, Maḥbūb al-rāg̲h̲ibīn, Marg̲h̲ūb al-ṭālibīn, Maṭlūb al-ṣāliḥīn, by Maḥbūb Aḥmad:—
Edition: Delhi 1887†.
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- in prose and verse, by Munawwar [b.?] Maḥmūd Adīb: Ivanow 1515 (1).
