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Subject(s)

• Islamic law—History—16th century—Sources [Browse]
• Hanafites—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Contains

• Ibn Nujaym, Zayn al-Dīn ibn Ibrāhīm, -1563. Qawl al-naqī fī al-radd ʻalá al-muftarī. [Browse]
• Bedreddin, Şeyh, 1358?-1420. Hādhihi sabʻah ālāf wa-sittamiʻah wa-sabʻūn masʼalah. [Browse]

Restrictions note

Access limited: Material extremely fragile; Apply to curator of manuscripts.

Summary note

A compendium of legal theory after the Ḥanafī school, completed on 27 Jumādá II 969 [March 1562] (see end of text, fol. 211a in the foliation in Arabic numerals). The text is preceded by short texts and inscriptions on fol. 1a-2a, and a fihrist of the al-Ashbāh wa-al-naẓāʼir al-fiqhīyah ʻalá madhhab al-Ḥanafīyah on fol. 2b-5b. It is followed by a short text by Maḥmūd ibn Qāḍī Simāwnah and other short texts and excerpts by other hands on fol. 217a-218b (in the foliation in Arabic numerals).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Physical description: 24 lines per page. Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink. The text is framed within two lines in red. Thin biscuit paper with regular laid lines and fibers visible. Foliations in Arabic numerals; not re-foliated due to the poor state of conservation of the ms. Worm-eaten; extremely fragile; loss of text.
• Origin: The ms. is not dated.

Binding note

Brown leather binding covered with khaki cloth.

Contents

• 1. fol. 2b-5b: Fihrist al-Ashbāh wa-al-naẓāʼir al-fiqhīyah ʻalá madhhab al-Ḥanafīyah.
• 2. fol. 6b-211a (the latter in the foliation in Arabic numerals): [al-Ashbāh wa-al-naẓāʼir al-fiqhīyah ʻalá madhhab al-Ḥanafīyah / Zayn al-Dīn ibn Ibrāhīm Ibn Nujaym].
• 3. fol. 211b-216b (foliation in Arabic numerals): al-Qawl al-naqī fī al-radd ʻalá al-muftarī / Zayn Ibn Nujaym al-Miṣrī.
• 4. fol. 217a-218b (foliation in Arabic numerals): Hādhihi sabʻah ālāf wa-sittamiʻah wa-sabʻūn masʼalah / Maḥmūd ibn Qāḍī Simāwnah.

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Provenance

Waqf statement dated 1300 H. [1882 or 1883] in the name of Muṣṭafá ibn al-ḥājj Maḥmūd al-marḥūm ... al-mulaqqab bi-Kutkhudāzade [Muṣṭafá ibn Maḥmūd Kutkhudāzade], with seal with inscription "Muṣṭafá Nūrī", on fol. 6a. Acquired by Robert Garrett from the books of Murād Bey al-Bārūdī (Beirut), 1925.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1742
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 310 (4/1)

OCLC

228880857

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