Details

Subject(s)

• Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic law—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Hanafites—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islam—Rituals—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Questions and answers concerning Islamic doctrine and ritual, culled from a variety of Hanafite sources such as Kanz al-daqāʾiq, al-Baḥr al-rāʾiq, Sharḥ al-Wiqāyah, and Kifāyat al-muʾminīn.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from text on leaf 2a, line 5.
• Physical description: 15 lines per page; written in small, neat naskh in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Extensive damp staining; some smudging and insect damage.
• Origin: According to Moghadam, likely 18th century.
• Incipit: الحمد لله ... اما بعد مىگوىد خاکسار بىمقدار فقىر ابراهىم بن حسىن خوىدم کلام کرد کار بصره الله بعىوب نفسه

Binding note

Rebound in cloth.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

Acquired from Widgery, Cambridge, 1925.

Source acquisition

Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.

References

Moghadam, M. et al. Garrett coll., 141

OCLC

851174841

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