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Subject(s)

• Logic, Medieval—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Logic—Islamic Empire—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Shafiites—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Summary of the Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-jadal by the author, on dialectics for jurists.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from colophon (fol. 20a).
• 21 lines per page. Written in small naskh, using black ink. Thick paper with horizontal chain lines visible. Quinions. On fol. 1a, title, name of the author and prayer in praise of God in another hand. On fol. 20a, poem in Persian added by another hand in the left margin. On fol. 20b, several short texts unrelated with the main text by another hand. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Collation: Paper, fol. 20 ; 1-2¹⁰.
• Copied during Jumādá al-Ākhirah 485 by al-Ḥasan ibn Yaḥyá ibn ʻUbayd Allāh al-Kirmānī al-Jīraftī.
• Incipit: بسم... رب يسر ولا تعسر قال الشيخ الامام ابو اسحاق ابرهيم ... الحمد لله حق حمده ... بيته لما رايت حاجة من يتفقه ماسة الى معرفة ما يعترض به
• Explicit: ان تكون احداهما توافق دليلا اخر من الاصل او معقول من الاصل فهي اولي لانها اقوي

Binding note

Modern binding made of red and black marbled paper over pasteboards.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Arabic coll., 867
• Brockelmann, C., GAL, I, 388/IV

Other title(s)

كتاب معونة المبتدئين وتذكرة المنتهين في رسوم النظر

Title from fol. 1a in a later hand

• Kitāb Maʻūnat al-mubtadiʼīn wa-tadhkirat al-muntahīn fī rusūm al-naẓar

OCLC

65432242

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