Details

Subject(s)

• Divorce (Islamic law)—History—11th century—Sources [Browse]
• Divorce (Islamic law)—History—12th century—Sources [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Two unbound bi-folios with a copy of the Ghāyat al-ghawr, on divorce.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1a.
• Physical description: 18 lines per page. Written in casual medium small naskh in black ink ; almost entirely undotted. Dark cream paper, with regular laid lines and pulp visible. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first fol.).
• Origin: The copy is not dated. R. Mach dates it to the 6th century H.
• Incipit: قال الشيخ الامام حجة الاسلام ابو حامد محمد بن محمد الغزالى الطوسى رحمه الله الحمد لله ذى الفضل والنعم والطول والكرم ... اما بعد فانى لما دخلت بغداد سنة اربع وثمانين واربعماية

Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 1400
• Bouyges, M. Essai de chronologie des œuvres de al-Ghazali (Algazel), no. 15
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 425/53

OCLC

224004374

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