Details

Subject(s)

• Fatwas—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic law—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Hanafites—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islam—Prayers and devotions—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Related name

• يانيوي، فيض الله [Browse]

Contains

Yānyawī, Fayḍ Allāh. [Treatise on adjudicating claims]. [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of the author's fetvas; preceded by a table of contents (fol. iib-iib), fetvas by various shaykhs (iiib-iva, via-vib), and a short treatise in Arabic on adjudicating claims by Fayḍ Allāh al-Yānyawī (fol. va-via). Inserts are shelved separately and include a 12-leaf booklet of prayers.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from upper edge.
• Physical description: 29 lines per page; written in small nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; extensive marginal notes in Turkish and Arabic. Foliated in Arabic script. Mild damp staining; edges somewhat ragged. In excellent condition.
• Incipit:الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على خير خلقه محمد واله الطيبين الطاهرين كتاب الطهارة زيد جنب ايكن ذكر وتسبيح وصلوة على النبى اتمك جائز اولر مى
• Incipit (short treatise): الحمد لله الذي احسن الينا احسن التقويم و كرمنا بالكرم نعيم

Binding note

Full red leather with flap; gold-stamped central mandorla and blind-tooled fillets; orange paper doublures.

Language note

Ottoman Turkish and Arabic.

Provenance

Numerous ownership stamps on fol. ib.

Other format(s)

Published numerous times.

OCLC

825075352

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