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Subject(s)

• Burhān al-Sharīʻah, Maḥmūd ibn ʻUbayd Allāh -1274 or 1275—Wiqāyat al-riwāyah [Browse]
• Maḥbūbī, ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd -1346 or 1347—Sharḥ al-Wiqāyah [Browse]
• Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Hanafites—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 844H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Related work(s)

• Marghīnānī, ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr, -1196 or 1197. Hidāyah. [Browse]
• مرغيناني، علي بن ابي بكر، -1196 or 1197. هداية. [Browse]

Summary note

A revision of the Wiqāyat al-riwāyah fī masāʼil al-Hidāyah, together with a revision of the commentary by Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Thānī on the same work. The revision of al-Wiqāyah is entitled al-Iṣlāḥ and the revision of the commentary is entitled al-Īḍāḥ.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from caption (fol. 1b).
• A few marginal notes and glosses. The margins of several folios are trimmed. Some stray writing on upper pastedown and folio 1a.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 89 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 19 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; some pages cut to 85 mm wide ; watermarks (figure in a circle topped by a star; anchor) ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: Probably from the XVIIth century.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين احمده في البداية والنهاية على الهداية والوقاية اشكره علي ما انعم علي من التوفيق والعناية علي من بلغ الغاية ...
• Ending: اي القليل بقدرالدرهم قال بعض المتأخرين اي المقدر لا القليل تمت

Binding note

Later? type II (with flap) binding in red leather and marbled paper. Flap is missing.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1749.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, pp. 329/30.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, III, p. 9.
• Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 212.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 4559.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Īḍāḥ iṣlāḥ
• ايضاح اصلاح
• متن ايضاح اصلاح

Title from folio 1a

• Matn Īḍāḥ iṣlāḥ

OCLC

1340425559

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