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Manuscript/Mixed Material Kitāb al-Mukhtār fī al-fiqh ʻalá madhhab al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah al-ustādh al-aʻẓam Abū Ḥanīfah al-Nuʻmān ibn Thābit كتاب المختار في الفقه على مذهب العالم العلامة الاستاذ الاعظم ابو حنيفة النعمان بن ثابت / Title on fol. 1b: Mukhtār al-fatwá

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Title

  • Kitāb al-Mukhtār fī al-fiqh ʻalá madhhab al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah al-ustādh al-aʻẓam Abū Ḥanīfah al-Nuʻmān ibn Thābit

Other Title

  • كتاب المختار في الفقه على مذهب العالم العلامة الاستاذ الاعظم ابو حنيفة النعمان بن ثابت
  • Title on fol. 1b: Mukhtār al-fatwá

Summary

  • Treatise consisting of selected doctrines and fatwas of Ḥanafī fiqh.

Names

  • Mawṣilī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Maḥmūd, 1202 or 1203-1284
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [18th centuy?]

Headings

  • -  Islamic law--Early works to 1800
  • -  Fatwas--Early works to 1800
  • -  Hanafites--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a.
  • -  Scribe not identified.
  • -  Manuscript does not mention the name of the author.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; medium cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and a watermark of a sun and its rays within a circle in the center of the sun is a small circle containing the script letter A; black ink with rubrication; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, SI, p. 657
  • -  Naskh; 21 lines in written area 16 x 10 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-85b.
  • -  "34. IV 1920 = 4.282."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 4-282.
  • -  Binding; red half leather with lighter and darker blue, white and red marbled paper sides and flap; envelope binding; text block not attached to binding.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة. الحمد لله على جزيل نعمايه احمده على جليل الائه واشكره على جميل بلايه ... فجمعت هذا المختصر كما طلبه وتوخاه وسميته المختار الفتوى ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: تم المختار ولله الحمد والمنة.

Medium

  • 85 leaves (21 lines), paper : bound ; 22 x 15.7 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • KBP300.M39 A36 1700z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016496333

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Mawṣilī, ʻAbd Allāh Ibn Maḥmūd, 1202 Or, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb al-Mukhtār fī al-fiqh ʻalá madhhab al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah al-ustādh al-aʻẓam Abū Ḥanīfah al-Nuʻmān ibn Thābit. [18th Centuy?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496333/.

APA citation style:

Mawṣilī, ʻ. A. I. M., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. Kitāb al-Mukhtār fī al-fiqh ʻalá madhhab al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah al-ustādh al-aʻẓam Abū Ḥanīfah al-Nuʻmān ibn Thābit. [18th Centuy?] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496333/.

MLA citation style:

Mawṣilī, ʻAbd Allāh Ibn Maḥmūd, 1202 Or, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb al-Mukhtār fī al-fiqh ʻalá madhhab al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah al-ustādh al-aʻẓam Abū Ḥanīfah al-Nuʻmān ibn Thābit. [18th Centuy?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496333/>.