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Subject(s)

• Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Shīʻah—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī, al-Ḥasan ibn Yūsuf 1250-1325—Mabādiʼ al-wuṣūl ilá ʻilm al-uṣūl [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

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• Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī, al-Ḥasan ibn Yūsuf, 1250-1325. Mabādiʼ al-wuṣūl ilá ʻilm al-uṣūl. [Browse]
• ابن المطهر الحلي، الحسن بن يوسف، 1250-1325. مبادئ الوصول الى علم الاصول. [Browse]
• Jurjānī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, active 1328. Ghāyat al-bādiʼ fī sharḥ al-Mabādiʼ. [Browse]
• جرجاني، محمد بن علي، active 1328. غاية البادئ في شرح المبادئ. [Browse]

Summary note

Treatise on Shiʻite law followed by a commentary upon it.

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Incipit: [كتاب مبادي الوصول] الحمد لله المتفرد بالازلية ... اما بعد فهذا کتاب مبادي الوصول الى علم الاصول -- [غاية البادئ] نحمدك اللهم نفتتح الکلام وبشكرك يا علام
• Title from texts 1 and 2.
• Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the front flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.
• Layout: 9-24 lines per page.
• Description: Both texts written on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Text 1 has extensive marginal and interlinear notes. Damp-staining, mainly marginal; upper edge moldered. Leaf 2a contains the last page of another text.
• Origin: Text 1, 1030 H [1620 or 1621], by Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Yaḥyā [?] ibn Sālim al-Manṣūrī (leaf 52a). Text 2, likely late 17th century.

Binding note

Full black leather with yellow paper doublures; marbled flyleaf.

Language note

Arabic.

Contents

• 1. fol. 2b-52a: Kitāb Mabādī al-wuṣūl ilá ʻilm al-uṣūl / Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī. Treatise on uṣūl al-fiqh.
• 2. fol. 53b-132b: Ghāyat al-bādī fī sharḥ al-Mabādī / Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Jurjānī. Commentary on Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī's Mabādiʼ al-wuṣūl ilá ʻilm al-uṣūl. Incomplete at end; breaks off in baḥth 9 (fī al-istiṣḥāb).

Provenance

Three owners' stamps on leaf 2a.

References

• Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 606, 249.
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 212 (no. 34); SII, 209; SII, 209 (no. 34, commentary b)

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

698182723

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