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Subject(s)

• Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Waqf—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. 929H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Related work(s)

• Khaṣṣāf, Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar, -874 or 875. Aḥkām al-awqāf. [Browse]
• خصاف، احمد بن عمر، -874 or 875. احكام الاوقاف. [Browse]

Summary note

A compendium of the laws of religious endowments, being an abridgment of Kitāb Aḥkām al-awqāf of Abū Bakr ibn ʻUmar al-Khaṣṣāf.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal notes and glosses. Preliminary leaf has end of a table of contents and an inscription. Following the text is Ṣūrat waqf al-Amīr Muḥammad ibn Abī ʻAlī (fol. 89[bis]b).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 90 ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 21 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents?; later endpapers: crown-star-crescent) ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed Monday 6 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1070 (fol. 88b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله الذي خلق الانسان في احسن تقويم وهدى من شأ منه الى الصراط المستقيم ... وبعد فان العلما الاولين قد جعلهم الله رحمه للاخرين ...
• Coolphon: ووافق الفراغ من نسخها يوم الاثنين السادس من شهرذي الحجة ختام سنة سبعين والف من الهجرة النبوية على مشرفها افضل [الصلاة] والسلام والحمد لله على التمام

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and paper with block-pressed design. Upper cover missing. Lower cover worn.

Provenance

Signatures: ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Abī ʻAbd Allāh ʻAbd al-Shakwá, Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥasan Jubbūr al-Ḥanafī dated 1089, Muḥammad Amīn ibn Ḥasan dated 1120, [obscured name] dated 1146?, [obscured name] dated 1157, ʻAbd al-Malik ibn ʻAbd Allāh ʻAbd al-Shakūr dated 1228 (fol. 1a); ʻAbd Allāh al-Malikī (fol. 90b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1878.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 284.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, III, p. 5, VII, p. 10.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 4766.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Kitāb al-Isʻāf fī aḥkām al-awqāf
• كتاب الاسعاف في احكام الاوقاف
• Ṣūrat waqf al-Amīr Muḥammad ibn Abī ʻAlī.
• صورة وقف الامير محمد بن ابي علي.

OCLC

1389593963

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