Details

Subject(s)

• Nawawī 1233-1277—Minhāj al-ṭālibīn [Browse]
• Islamic law—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Shafiites—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. 916H [Browse]

Summary note

Two fragmentary volumes of a commentary on a work on Shāfiʻite law and jurisprudence which is a commentary by Shihāb al-Dīn al-Adhraʻī on Minhāj al-ṭālibīn by al-Nawawī. Despite its caption, fhe first volume contains the section on al-shahādah; the second volume contains the section on al-daʻwá wa-al-bayyināt.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• The first volume is incomplete at the beginning. On back of its last page is a message from the Prophet to the Muslims conveyed to them by a certain Shaykh Ḥamzah, an attendant in the Madīnah mosque who received the message from Muḥammad in a dream (v. 1, fol. 101b). Fāʼidah (v. 2, fol. 143b)
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 102, i + 144 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 23-25 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; MS in fair condition.
• Origin: Probably from XVIth century.
• Incipit: ضلالهم تقليد لاسلافهم الفجرة لا شبهة عند هم ولا تأويل
• Colophon: اخرالمجلد يتلوه الکلام على تخالف الوارثين المسلم بالدين

Binding note

Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and red marbled paper.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1800.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• كتاب القنوت للاذرعي
• كتاب الدعوة للاذرعي

Title at head of volume 1

• Kitāb al-Qunūt lil-Adhraʻī

Title at head of volume 2

• Kitāb al-Daʻwah lil-Adhraʻī

OCLC

1389419002

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