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Manuscript/Mixed Material Fatḥ al-malik al-ʻazīz al-ghaffār bi-al-kalām ʻalá ākhir sharḥ ghāyat al-ikhtiṣār فتحالملك العزيز الغفار بالكلام على آخر شرح غاية الاختصار / Title from fol. 1a: Hādhā khatam al-Shaykh al-Imām al-Shaykh Aḥmad al-Dayrabī al-Shāfiʻī ʻalá Ibn Qāsim al-Ghazzī wa-al-ḥamdu li-llāh waḥduhu tamm

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Title

  • Fatḥ al-malik al-ʻazīz al-ghaffār bi-al-kalām ʻalá ākhir sharḥ ghāyat al-ikhtiṣār

Other Title

  • فتحالملك العزيز الغفار بالكلام على آخر شرح غاية الاختصار
  • Title from fol. 1a: Hādhā khatam al-Shaykh al-Imām al-Shaykh Aḥmad al-Dayrabī al-Shāfiʻī ʻalá Ibn Qāsim al-Ghazzī wa-al-ḥamdu li-llāh waḥduhu tamm

Summary

  • Abridgement of Ghazzī's Fatḥ al-qarīb al-mujīb which in turn is a commentary on Abū Shujāʼ al-Iṣfahānī's Mukhtaṣar fī al-fiqh ʻalá madhhab al-Shāfiʻī.

Names

  • Dayrabī, Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar, -1738 or 1739
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 29 Rabīʻ al-thānī 1130 [1 April 1718]

Headings

  • -  Ghazzī, Aḥmad ibn Qāsim,---1575.--Fatḥ al-qarīb al-mujīb
  • -  Abū Shujāʻ al-Iṣfahānī, Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn,--approximately 1042---Mukhtaṣar fī al-fiqh ʻalá madhhab al-Shāfiʻī
  • -  Islamic law--Early works to 1800
  • -  Shafiites--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1b.
  • -  Author's autograph copy.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; lighly polished cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; black ink; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, GII, p. 323
  • -  Naskh; 25 lines in written area 16 x 10 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-50a.
  • -  "39. IV 2261 = 4.615."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 4-615.
  • -  Binding; black half leather with black grain sides and flap; envelope binding; text block not attached to binding.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة. الحمد لله الذي وقف العلما لتدوين الاحكام وجعلهم ورثة الانبيا عليهم ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه اجمعين وسلام على المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين آمين آمين.

Medium

  • 50 leaves (25 lines), paper : bound ; 21.7 x 16.3 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • KBP330.G44 A35533 1718

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016496230

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, African and Middle East Division, Near East Section Arabic Language Rare Materials Collection

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Chicago citation style:

Dayrabī, Aḥmad Ibn ʻUmar, -1738 Or 1739, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Fatḥ Al-Malik Al-ʻazīz Al-Ghaffār Bi-Al-Kalām ʻalá Ākhir Sharḥ Ghāyat Al-Ikhtiṣār. [29 Rabīʻ al-thānī 1 April 1718, 1130] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496230/.

APA citation style:

Dayrabī, A. I. ʻ., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1130) Fatḥ Al-Malik Al-ʻazīz Al-Ghaffār Bi-Al-Kalām ʻalá Ākhir Sharḥ Ghāyat Al-Ikhtiṣār. [29 Rabīʻ al-thānī 1 April 1718] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496230/.

MLA citation style:

Dayrabī, Aḥmad Ibn ʻUmar, -1738 Or 1739, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Fatḥ Al-Malik Al-ʻazīz Al-Ghaffār Bi-Al-Kalām ʻalá Ākhir Sharḥ Ghāyat Al-Ikhtiṣār. [29 Rabīʻ al-thānī 1 April 1718, 1130] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496230/>.