Details

Subject(s)

• Islamic law—Interpretation and construction [Browse]
• Shīʻah [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Treatise on uṣūl al-fiqh; incomplete at beginning.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger, per Mach and Ormsby.
• Physical description: 23 lines per page; written in cramped nastaʻliq with elements of shikastah in black on blue glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Marginal damp-staining. First two and last two leaves particularly ragged, torn, and stained.
• Origin: Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1226 H [November-December 1811], by Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī Aṣghar (leaf 129a).
• Incipit (1a, line 9): وسيلة اعلم انه اختلف الاصوليون في استعمال المشترك في اکثر من معنى

Binding note

Limp black leather.

Language note

Arabic.

Provenance

Two owners' stamps on leaf 129a.

References

• Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 1587
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 826 (10: no. 5)

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

857663036

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