Details

Subject(s)

• Shīʻah—Doctrines [Browse]
• Islamic law [Browse]
• Shīʻah [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Treatise on Shiʻite doctrine and fiqh.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from lower edge.
• Physical description: 25 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. First leaf detached. Mild staining.
• Origin: 1239 H [1823 or 1824] in Mashhad, by Muḥammad ʻAlī ibn Mīrzā Ismāʻīl (leaf 264b).
• Incipit: الحمد لله الذي اختص بالازلية والقدم وابرز نور الممكنات والقد من ظلمة العدم

Binding note

Full black leather with pink paper doublures.

Language note

Arabic.

References

• Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 480
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 505/10

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

كشف الغطاء عن خفيات مبهمات الشريعة الغراء

Title given by Mach and Ormsby

• Kashf al-ghiṭāʼ ʻan khafīyāt mubhamāt al-sharīʻah al-gharrāʼ

OCLC

857770921

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