golden age of Ibadhi jurisprudence. It may be of some interest to mention here that there is little in the Mudawwanah about the subject of pilgrimage (Hajj), which usually is given much attention in works of such nature as the Mudawwanah. However, the Mudawwanah presented Ibadhi opinions and the arguments of Ibadhi scholars, and their views concerning well-known differences in the opinions held by Sunni scholars. The Mudawwanah gives a clear account of the development of the Ibadhi jurisprudence in its early times.

Ibadhi scholars paid great attention to the Mudawwanah. Commentaries were written on it both in Berber and Arabic.69 Some Ibadhi sources mention the commentary of certain Abu al-Qasim b. Najid or Nasir.70 The last of the commentaries on the Mudawwanah was made by Muhammad b. Yusuf Atfiyish. He re-arranged the material of the book and inserted his additions into the text. According to the present day scholar of Oman, Muhammad b. 'Abdullah al-Salimi, this work of Atfiyish is known as al-Mudawwanah al-Kubra, and the original Mudawwanah of Abu Ghanim is distinguished by the name: al-Mudawwanah al-Sughra.71 It is also alluded to in Ibadhi sources as al-Ghanimiyah.72

II) AL-DIWAN AL-MA'RUD 'ALA 'ULAMA' AL-IBADHIYAH:

During my search in Jerba, I discovered two copies of this work. A third copy is possessed by Dar al-kutub of Cairo.73 The Cairo copy comes originally from Jerba. It is likely that Dar al-kutub, somehow, obtained its copy from the Ibadhi collection of Mss. of Wakalat alJamus, a trust (waqf) established for the Ibadhi students who go to Egypt to study in al-Azhar.

The work contains a number of books relating to Ibadhi authorities, and it also contains narrations from different authorities of Basrah, Kufah, and Madinah concerning different topics of jurisprudence.

The title given to this work in some parts of the Mss. is as written above. The composer of the work is not known, but it is suggested that it was composed by Abu Ghanim the author of the Mudawwanah, for many of the works contained in this large Ms. were narrated from the same authorities as the Mudawwanah.

The List of Contents:

K. Aqwal Qatadah: seven parts. The book contains mainly narrations from the 'successor' Qatadah b. Di'amah al-Sadusi, on different subjects, legal and religious.

Part i: Mainly narrations relating to ablution and prayers.