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First Half of al-Baghawi's 'Masabih al-Sunnah'

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First Half of al-Baghawi's 'Masabih al-Sunnah'
First Half of al-Baghawi's 'Masabih al-Sunnah'
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The 'Masabih al-sunnah' is a compendium of prophetic traditions by the Shafi'i lawyer Abu Muhammad al-Husayn ibn Mas'ud al-Farra' al-Baghawi (d.516 AH / 1122). This copy opens with a table of contents followed by an illuminated page (folio 3a) with a large eight-petalled medallion with oval panels above and below. This could have borne the title of the work and its author, or possibly a commissioning notice naming the person for whom it was written. The text is in clear naskh but is particularly remarkable for its initial Kufic basmalah (folio 3b), which ranks among the finest of its kind and demonstrates that the ability to compose such scripts persisted long after the early tenth century when they first appeared.

The Khalili Collections

London

Title

First Half of al-Baghawi's 'Masabih al-Sunnah'

Date

1100–1150

Medium

ink, gold & opaque watercolour on paper

Accession number

577

Work type

Drawing

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