Details

Subject(s)

• Islamic law—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Hanafites—13th century [Browse]
• Fatwas—13th century [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Quzabnī, Badīʻ ibn Abī Manṣūr active 13th century—Munyat al-fuqahāʼ Abridgment [Browse]

Contains

• Qāḍī Khān, al-Ḥasan ibn Manṣūr al-Ūzjandī al-Farghānī, d. 1196. Fatāwá Qāḍī Khān. Selections. [Browse]
• قاضي خان، الحسن بن منصور الاوزجندي الفرغاني. فتاوى قاضي خان [Browse]

Summary note

Summary of Munyat al-fuqahāʼ, a compilation of legal cases by al-Zāhidī's teacher, Fakhr al-Dīn Badīʻ ibn Abī Manṣūr al-ʻArabī al-Quzabnī (or: Qubaznī). The text ends on fol. 332b [331b in the modern foliation] and is followed on fol. 334b-335a [333b-334a] by a "Faṣl Qāḍī Khān".

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from preamble (fol. 10b, l. 23-24). The name of the author appears at the beginning of the text.
• Physical description: 23 lines per page. Written in black and red ink. Headings in larger script with re-inking in red. Light biscuit paper with laid and chain lines and pulp visible. Marginal annotations. Fol. 1-8 and 333 [332 in the modern foliation] are later additions of glazed European paper with watermark, with a table of contents on fol. 1a-8a. Several short texts relating stories and fatwas on fol. 9a [8a in the modern foliation]. List of abbreviations used in the text on fol. 9b [8b]. Several inscriptions including ownership statements on fol. 10a [9a]. Magic formula on fol. 335b [334b]. Foliation in red ink using Arabic numerals (starts with "1" on fol. 11a [10a]). Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first fol.).
• Three spine labels (vertical), one with a red border, with the title in Arabic script, reading "Qunyat al-munyah lil-Zāhidī" ; the scond bordered in blue, with the inscription in Roman script: "R3" (repeated on a similar label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover, and in red pencil on fol. 1a) ; the third almost completely wanting.
• Origin: Copy completed in Rajab 823 [July-Aug. 1420] by Najm al-Jalālī(?) al-Bukhārī (colophon, fol. 333b [332b in the modern foliation]).
• Incipit: الحمد لله الذى اوضح معالم العلوم واعلى منارها ونشر فى ملكوت السموات ... وبعج فيقول الشيخ الامام ... مختار بن محمود نجم الحق والدين الزاهدي نغمّده الله بالرحمة والرضوان ... لما خلت عوالم الفضايل عن فقهاء البرية وكثرت وقوع الاحاديث
• Explicit: فشهد عليه الوارثان المقران به هل تقبل شهاتهما كشهادتهما بالدين ام لا والله اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والماب

Binding note

Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Both covers have a central stamped mandorla with an arabesque of flowers and an outer border made of several fillets, with impressions of a small circular stamp. The envelope flap has a similar border with a small stamped roundel on its point. Marbled paper pastedowns. Leather doublure for the envelope flap. Edges covered by repairs. The upper cover is disbound.

Provenance

Several ownership statements, some with seals on fol. 10a [9a in the modern foliation]. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 1050
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 382 (44/1) ; SI

Other format(s)

• Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
• Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

137335925

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