نظم الغاية المسمى بالكفاية.

Naẓm al-Ghāyah al-musammá bi-al-Kifāyah.

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Arabic
Published/​Created
1 Jumādá al-Ākhirah 1249 [October 16, 1833]
Description
37 leaves : paper ; 211 x 152 (165-175 x 103) mm bound to 210 x 155 mm.

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    Summary note
    A versification of al-Ghāyah fī ikhtiṣār al-nihāyah of ʻIzz al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad al-Sulamī. al-Ghāyah in turn is an abridgment of Nihāyat al-maṭlab fī dirāyat al-madhhab, a work on the principles of Shāfiʻite jurisprudence by Abū al-Maʻālī Imām al-Ḥaramayn al-Juwaynī.
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title from caption (fol. 4b).
    • Marginal notes and glosses. Various inscriptions (fol. 1a-4a). Table of contents (fol. 4b). Prayer (fol. 27a-28b). Folios 29-37 are blank.
    • Collation: Paper ; fol. iii + 37 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
    • Layout: 19-21 lines in two columns ; frame-ruled in red.
    • Description: Vowel signs ; watermarks (three crescents, roman-alphabet initials and words) ; MS in good condition.
    • Origin: According to colophon copy completed 1 Jumādá al-Ākhirah 1249 by Aḥmad al-Diyārbakrī najl ʻUmar Afandī al-Shāfiʻī ibn Muḥammad Amīn ibn Ḥasan ibn Riḍwān, known as al-Māridīnī (fol. 26a).
    • Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. يقول راجي رحمة القدير محمد نجل فتى الظهير الحمد لله على ما وهبا حمدا مباركا كثيرا طيبا ...
    • Colophon: قد استراح قلم الفقير احمد الجهول الديار بکري نجل الشيخ عمر افندي الشافعي بن الشيخ محمد امين ابن الشيخ حسن ابن رضوان الشهير بالمارديني کساه تعالى جلابيب الغفران 1249 غرة جمادى الاخرة
    Binding note
    Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and green paper. Gold-sprinlkled yellow paper pastedowns and gold-sprinkled green flyleaves. Endbands.
    Provenance
    Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1783.
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    Also available in an electronic version.
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    1340420248
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