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The Qur’ans of the woman copyist ʿAʾisha bint Mubarak al-Takiyya

Les Corans de la copiste ʿAʾisha bint Mubarak al-Takiyya (Rabat) · مصاحف الناسخة عائشة بنت مبارك التكية

1237 AH and 1245 AH · 1822 CE and 1830 CE

In the reigns of Mawlay Sulayman and Mawlay ʿAbd al-Rahman

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Copyist
ʿAʾisha bint al-Hajj Mubarak al-Shalh al-Takki, who in one of the Qur’ans calls herself ʿAʾisha bint Mubarak b. Ahmad, son of al-Hasan al-Shaykh, al-Takki al-Ghashi al-Hasnawi
First Qur’an
Rabat, Royal Library, no. 4087: the morning of Friday 22 Jumada [I or II] 1237 AH / 1822 CE
Second Qur’an
Rabat, Royal Library, no. 5061: Sunday 22 Dhu l-Qaʿda 1245 AH / c. 16 May 1830 CE
Third Qur’an
Rabat, Royal Library, no. 4225: in the margin at its end, in a different ink, “year 1237”
Script
A clear, medium-sized badawī (rural) hand, fully vocalised in colour, as al-Manuni describes it

A rare witness to a Moroccan woman who copied Qur’ans and wrote her name and the date of copying in their colophons. Mohammed al-Manuni made her known, and mentions with her the sharīfa Fatima bint ʿAli al-Zabadi of Fez, who copied more than thirty-five Qur’ans.

Al-Manuni does not give the place of copying; the copyist came from the Moroccan countryside.