Digital Archive of the Middle East

Items

• Kitab Mujarrabāt
  Kitab Mujarrabāt, aka Fath-al-malik al-majid, is a manuscript treatise of 36 chapters on healing magic, written by 18th century Egyptian legal scholar of the Shafi'i school, Al-Shaykh Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar Dayrabī (1651-1738), who taught at al-Alzhar. The manuscript is incomplete, and is lacking the final pages.
• Photograph with annotation: "the Security Headquarters prison in Sulemanyah, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1991".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "the Security Headquarters prison in Sulemanyah, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1991". A man points to inscriptions on the wall.
• Print showing field sketch by Lieutenant M. Houghton of coast from Ul Umrah from the anchorage, Circa 1825.
  Print showing field sketch by Lieutenant M. Houghton of coast from Ul Umrah [Jazirah al Hamra, UAE] from the anchorage, Circa 1825. Image from collection of 'Coast Views taken while employed on the Arabian Side of the Gulf of Persia'. By Lieutenant Michael Houghton, Draughtsman, H.C. Marine. A collection of 20 watercolour, pencil and ink sketches carried out by the Bombay Marine's officers between 1820 and 1829. Archive Editions, Printed 1990.
• The Papers of Adil Al-Azmah. Box 3 (ix)
  Photocopied pages from the papers of Adil Al-Azmah, numbered 765-825, including the text of a legislative decree dated 25 April 1949, a table of legislative decrees, agenda lists for meetings of the Council of Ministers - with marginal annotations and doodles - and other papers from 1949.
• The Papers of Adil Al-Azmah. Box 6 (iv)
  Index to Adil Al-Azmah papers