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Subject(s)

• Religious life—Islam [Browse]
• Shīʻah—Customs and practices [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Questions and answers; organized into two bāb, the first on doctrine and the second on law. Notes on fol. 1a, 1b, 225b.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from colophon on fol. 225b; according to Āghā Buzurg (V, 59), also known as Suʼāl va javāb.
• On front cover: Label reading "39" in Arabic script.
• Physical description: 24 lines per page; written in ruqʻah script in black on glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords; headings in red. Some paper repairs, particularly towards beginning and end of text block, resulting in some loss of text on several folios. Marginal damp staining and some foxing.
• Origin: Copy completed 16 Shawwāl 1230 H. [21 September 1815] by Ibn Karbalāʼī Maḥmūd Muḥammad Riḍā-yi [?] al-Dayrī sākin Dar al-[---] Qazvīn (fol. 225b).
• Incipit: باب اول در مساىل اصولية است و ان در ضمن دو باب بىان مىشود

Binding note

Full light brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants; several fillets both tooled and stamped. Beige pastedowns.

Language note

Persian and Arabic.

Provenance

Owner's stamps on fol. 1b, 225b.

References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʼah (1936), V, 59

Other format(s)

Published ([Tehran], 1371 [1992]).

Other title(s)

• Ajvibat al-masāʼil
• اجوبة المسائل
• Suʼāl va javāb
• سؤال و جواب

OCLC

745910465

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