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Manuscript/Mixed Material Kitāb al-ashribah wa-dhikr ikhtilāf al-nās fīhā كتاب الاشربة وذكر اختلاف الناس فيها /

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Title

  • Kitāb al-ashribah wa-dhikr ikhtilāf al-nās fīhā

Other Title

  • كتاب الاشربة وذكر اختلاف الناس فيها /

Summary

  • Treatise on the drinking of alcoholic beverages in Islamic law.

Names

  • Ibn Qutaybah, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muslim, 828-889?
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [first half of the 20th century?]

Headings

  • -  Liquor laws (Islamic law)--Early works to 1800
  • -  Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Religious aspects--Islam--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a.
  • -  Written by ʻUmar ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz.
  • -  Fol. 1a: "Riwāyat al-Ḥasan ibn Muẓaffar ibn Aḥmad ibn Kundāj ʻan Abī Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh ibn Jaʻfar ibn Dastūrīyah al-Naḥwī ʻan Abī al-Ṭāhir Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Bayīʻ."
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of wrting not determined; probably Egypt.
  • -  Paper; 20th century cream color commercial paper with no visible watermarks; black ink with rubrication; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, SI, p. 185. 2a
  • -  Naskh; 19 lines in written area 17.5 x 9.5 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-41b.
  • -  "43. IV 2457 = 4.809."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 4-809.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name in lower right corner of cover.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة. اخبنا الشيخ ابو طاهر محمد بن علي بن محمد بن عبد الله البيع ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: تم كتاب الاشربة والحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على اشرف النبيين على اله وصحبه وسلم. امين. تم

Medium

  • 41 leaves (19 lines), paper : bound ; 24.3 x 17.6 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • KBP184.9.D74 I26 1900z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016496389

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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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:

Ibn Qutaybah, ʻAbd Allāh Ibn Muslim, 828-889?, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb Al-Ashribah Wa-Dhikr Ikhtilāf Al-Nās Fīhā. [First Half of the 20th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496389/.

APA citation style:

Ibn Qutaybah, ʻ. A. I. M., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. Kitāb Al-Ashribah Wa-Dhikr Ikhtilāf Al-Nās Fīhā. [First Half of the 20th Century?] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496389/.

MLA citation style:

Ibn Qutaybah, ʻAbd Allāh Ibn Muslim, 828-889?, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb Al-Ashribah Wa-Dhikr Ikhtilāf Al-Nās Fīhā. [First Half of the 20th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496389/>.