A study in the lost books through the book (Tuhfat Al-Arous wa muta'l Al-Nufous) by Abi Abdullah Al-Tijani (721 A. H/ 1321 AD)

Abstract

Preserving the heritage of the Islamic nation and its civilization with the legacy left to us by the historians and creators of this nation, its spectrums, and all its religion, so this legacy was represented by the valuable literature that revealed to us aspects of the Arab-Islamic civilization, its leaders, scientists, and successors, and these books varied with the diversity of its writers who sailed in the fields of science, arts, literature and geography, including those who wrote in more than one aspect, so it was encyclopedic in its productions, readings, and opinions that revealed to us hidden and visible aspects of this civilization in general, but many Of these books and books did not see the light, but were lost for reasons that are some unknown and some burned, such as burning books, and destroying them successively differences, and the judgment that reflected negatively on these books, especially at certain stages, as well as the destruction, and prevention of some books that were the type of their writings rejected in a period of periods, especially philosophy, mysticism, and others, and others were lost because there was one copy of the author or damage and loss of this copy that ended in death, or the end of the life of this book, the creators of these wrote to us The nation in several areas, including the aspect of marital relations, its provisions, its prohibitions, what is stipulated in the Holy Qur'an, and the hadiths of the Prophet, which made some authors interested in this aspect, and looking for every stray and contained in this area, which branches into several and varied sections with the diversity and difference of life and the changes that have occurred in it, and although I said it, but what we got from it was comprehensive and adequate to serve all these questions, differences, and opinions, especially since these books have conveyed to us evidence Histories, novels, and various texts carried with them many lost books that are almost mentioned at times in a particular book and some of them were not seen for us to mention despite the fame of their authors and writers.