kitāb wajīz yabḥathu ʻan sīrat al-nabī al-akram wa-al-Qurʼān al-Karīm wa-al-adwār allatī marrat bi-hi min ḥaythu kitābatihi wa-jamʻihi wa-tartībihi wa-tarjamatihi ilá sāʼir al-lughāta treatise on the biography of the prophet and on the history of the holy Koran, its writing, the order of its chapters, how they were collected and the translation of the Koran into European languages