Details

Subject(s)

• Hanafites—Biography [Browse]
• Marghīnānī, ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr -1196 or 1197 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 176 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Biographies [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Colored papers (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

Contains two biographical texts.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Marginal notes.
• Collation: Paper ; catchwords.
• Layout: 24-25 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; blue paper ; watermarks (oval shield; three letters) ; discoloration to edges, second leaf torn, worn edges.

Contents

• 1. p. 1-22: Thumma intaqala al-fiqh ilá ṭabaqat Abī Bakr al-Khaṣṣāf. A work of unknown authorship offering accounts of a succession of Hanafite legal scholars and authors beginning with Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar al-Khaṣṣāf (d. 873) and ending with Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān Kamāl Pāshā (d. 1533 or 4). Mention is made of the works they authored, with whom they studied, and significant events in their lives. Similar in form to but briefer than al-Fawāʼid al-Bahīyah.
• 2. p. 23-28: Tarjamat ṣāḥib al-Hidāyah. Biography of the donor(?) of the book to which this essay is appended, i.e.: ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr al-Marghīnānī. Included are the names of his teachers and pupils, and the works they have written.

Other title(s)

• Thumma intaqala al-fiqh ilá ṭabaqat Abī Bakr al-Khaṣṣāf.
• ثم انتقل الفقه الى طبقة ابي بكر الخصاف.
• Tarjamat ṣāḥib al-Hidāyah.
• ترجمة صاحب الهداية.

OCLC

1388213464

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