Mathieu Tillier, Naïm Vanthieghem, Supplier Dieu dans l’Égypte toulounide. Le florilège de l’invocation d’après Ḫālid b. Yazīd (iiie/ixe siècle)

‘Florilegium’ is an Early Modern translation of Greek anthologia, literally a collection of flowers, to which a collection of short poems and epigrams seemed analogous. The title page of the collection edited by Tillier and Vanthieghem apparently calls it Kitāb mā yataḍammanu l-duʿāʾ and says it was set down from Khālid b. Yazīd, presumably by dictation, in the year 267/880-1. It comprises 39 hadith reports pertaining to supplication (duʿāʾ), mostly either sample prayers or

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