Text Collections in the Arabic Manuscript Tradition of Harar: The Case of the Mawlid Collection and of šayḫ Hāšim’s al-Fatḥ al-Raḥmānī

: In my paper I describe two text collections (the so-called Mawlid Collection and šayḫ Hāšim’s al-Fatḥ al-Raḥmānī ) widely attested in multiple-text manuscripts (MTMs) of the Arabic manuscript culture of the Islamic city and learning centre of Harar (Eastern Ethiopia), highlight the main components of both collections and their distribution in the codices, and carry out a comparative analysis, tentatively reconstructing a possible history of their formation and diffusion.