Details

Subject(s)

• Muslim scholars—Biography—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic law—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Hanafites—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Scribe

• Azʹharī, ʻAlī, active 17th century [Browse]

Related name

• ازهري، علي، active 17th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 936H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A brief account of the lives of the four Imāms together with a few problems of jurisprudence after the Hanafite school. The treatise was composed and prepared as a present for the governor of Cairo, Muṣṭafá Pāshā.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from dedication (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes. On the title page and after the colophon are verses of poetry.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 12 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 19 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; some vowel signs ; watermarks (coat-of-arms? with countermark roman-alphabet initials with trefoil) ; MS in fair condition.
• Origin: Copy completed 24 Jumād Awwal [?] by ʻAlī al-Ḥusaynī al-Azʹharī (fol. 12b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي بسط الارض بقدرته ورفع السما وهو العزيز الحكيم يحكم ما يريد ويفعل ما بشا ...
• Colophon: وکان الفراغ من کتابة هذه النسخة لاربع وعشرين خلت من جماد اول على يد کاتبها اضعف العباد علي الحسيني الازهري عفي [عفا] الله عنه آمين

Binding note

Unbound.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1773.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340425656

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