The "Mahdiyya" Qur'an: digitisation

              ROSEMOUNT,
                 WOOLWICH.

Dervish Koran: found in
the saddle-bag of an Emir
who was killed near the
Khalifa (Abdullahi) on the
occasion of the latter's
death at UM DEBREKAT
(GEDID) on 24th Novr. 1899
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KORAN, Manuscript, Arabic, early 19th (?) century.
[ff 346 with marginal notes (of no critical value*) in inferior hand].
Apparently very carefully written in easily
legible Naskh hand which is still common.
One of the leaves [247: & perhaps 341-2] is
written in an inferior hand, and copied from
another copy as could be seen by the
repetition of nearly two lines and difference
in the catch word.

[At the beginning are] six verses in
adoration of the Koran, composed by Sheikh
Mohamed el Ameer, possibly one of the
two famous theologians of that name, so
well known in the circles of el Aghar,
Cairo (el Aghar is, & always has been, the
leading school of Mohamedan theology, from
the time of the Fatimed (circa 10th century).).

*(being mere "charms" and similar notes).

(Notes supplied by M A Hassuna, chief librarian,
Egyptian University, Cairo: 17 Aug 1932.
Mr Hassuna arranged the leaves in order also).