Al Alusi

Awḍaḥ manhaj ilá manāsik al-ḥajj / De la manière la plus claire d'aborder les rituels du hajj, publisher unidentified, Cairo, 1277h [1862]. In-8, bound, 71pp, bookplate Mustafa Safvet, annotations in pencil. Pilgrimage rituals (manasik) for pilgrims to Mecca. A great traveler, Al Alusi stopped off in Cairo on his way to Mecca to make the pilgrimage, where he surrounded himself with ulama who urged him to write a manasik manual, to which he responded favorably with a three-chapter work. These manasik, thanks to their simplicity and the author's erudition, met with great success and were distributed throughout the Muslim world. This is one of the 1st Egyptian lithographic printings of manasik by a private printing house, which appeared around 1850 and competed with the official Bulaq printing house. Abdul Baqi Al Alusi (1834-1881), a Hanafi feqih and cadi from an illustrious family of Iraqi ulama from Baghdad, whose aura extended beyond the borders of Iraq, held high office on behalf of the Sublime Porte during the Ottoman occupation of Iraq.