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Imam Ali al-Ridha; Al-Risalah al-Dhahabiah

(The Golden Treatise) (d818)

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Taken from: https://bayanbox.ir/download/7768975733586837000/مزاج.docx

 

To reach Zanj countries, and the Negro desert and to the mountains of the moon to the Source of the Nile in Egypt………..

 

Left a page from this ms. The text reads: Golden dissertation in medicine which is sent by Imam Ali ibn Musa al-Ridha, peace be upon him, to al-Ma'mun.

 


Imam Ali al-Ridha; Daftar Huwan (d818)

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Taken from: Der Neger in der Bildersprache der arabischen Dichter By Manfred Ullmann

 
Fol 16
She is given power by a sword made of accusations, by which she killed the patient stallions in captivity.
The curls of sleep over her cheek resemble a black ostrich that sniffs glowing coals.
(The curls are) like a zanj standing over a blazing fire, burning one foot and pulling the other up.

Fol 155

She is an Indian with a Byzantine complexion; however, her hair is of a zanjiyya.