Alfiyyat al Lugha (al Alfiya) THE ITEM IS HOLDED by Ibn Malik, Abu ʻAbd Allah Djamal Al-Dīn Muhammad (c. 600 AH – 672 AH / c. 1204 – 21 February 1274)

Approx. 100 p. of fine naskh script by the well-known scholar Omar b. Ali al Tatta'i (علي بن عمر التتائي) (b. 826 AH. in Tatta in Egypt-- see: al Sakhawi: al Dhaw' al Lami', biography of Omar b. Ali b. Sha'ban ). Full page Mamluk illumination on verso of the first page, Chapter headings in Red, un dated manuscript but the scribe died in the last quarter of the 9th C. AH., 15th C. AD. Some notations by the hand of the well-known Arabic scholar and the scrib's teacher; Yahia al Uqaili al Baja'i (d. in 862 AH., 1452 AD.-- al Sakhawi; al Dhaw' al Lami'; biography of Yahia b. Abdurrahman b. Muhammad b. Salih), with a note of Simaa' (read grouping) by the hand of the well-known scholar Muhammad b. Abd al Haq al Sunbaty (known as Ibn Abd al Haqq and died in 870 AH. al Sakhawi; al Dhaw' al Lami' ). The author was an Arab grammarian born in Jaén. After leaving al-Andalus for the Near East, he became a Shāfi'ī, and taught Arabic language and literature in Aleppo and Hamāt, before eventually settled in Damascus, where he began the most productive period of his life. He was a senior master at the Adiliyya Madrasa. His reputation in Arabic literature was cemented by his al-Khulāsa al-alfiyya (known also as simply Alfiya), a versification of Arabic grammar, for which at least 43 commentaries have been written. Fine Mamluk ex. of the Alfiyya scribed and noticed by three scholars in the Mamluk era. THIS ITEM IS HOLDED.