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Manuscript/Mixed Material al-Zahrah al-bāriqah fī al-majāz wa-al-ḥaqīqah /c tālīf Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Mūsawī الزهرة البارقة في المجاز والحقيقة / / Cited by Kaḥḥālah as: Zahrah al-bāhirah fī uṣūl al-fiqh

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Title

  • al-Zahrah al-bāriqah fī al-majāz wa-al-ḥaqīqah /c tālīf Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Mūsawī

Other Title

  • الزهرة البارقة في المجاز والحقيقة /
  • Cited by Kaḥḥālah as: Zahrah al-bāhirah fī uṣūl al-fiqh

Summary

  • Treatise on uṣūl al fiqh in Shīʻah Islamic law.

Names

  • Aṣfahānī, Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī, 1761 or 1762-1844
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 12 Muḥarram 1245 [14 July 1829]

Headings

  • -  Islamic law--Interpretation and construction
  • -  Shiites
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 2a.
  • -  Written by Muḥammad Taqī al-Ḥusaynī.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Written in Iṣfahān.
  • -  Paper; polished laid paper dyed blue with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; black ink; catchwords; main text ends on fol. 173b; separate treatise dated [14 July 1829] by the author on divorce, pregnancy and marriage (10 leaves) accompanies the main text .
  • -  Naskh; 27 lines in written area 17.5 x 12 cm.
  • -  Fol. 2b-173b, 10 leaves.
  • -  "33. IV 1823 = 4.180."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 4-180.
  • -  Binding: black half leather with black grain sides and flap; envelope binding; text block not attached to binding.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة وبه نستعين. الحمد لله الذي تنزهت حقيقته عن مجائية العقول القادسة ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon (1st section fol 137a): تم بتوفيق الله تعالى ما اردنا كتابته من الزهره البارقة في علم الاصول للسيد السند الفا1ل الكامل المجتهد الباذل المحقق المدقق الماهر الجناب السيد محمد باقر الرشتي دام الله وجوده الساحي في دار السلطانة اصفهان سنة 1242.

Medium

  • 173, 10 leaves (27 lines), paper : bound ; 21.5 x 17.5 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • KBP440.76.A84 A39 1829

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016496561

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Aṣfahānī, Muḥammad Bāqir Ibn Muḥammad Taqī, 1761 Or, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. al-Zahrah al-bāriqah fī al-majāz wa-al-ḥaqīqah /c tālīf Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Mūsawī. [12 Muḥarram 14 July 1829, 1245] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496561/.

APA citation style:

Aṣfahānī, M. B. I. M. T., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1245) al-Zahrah al-bāriqah fī al-majāz wa-al-ḥaqīqah /c tālīf Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Mūsawī. [12 Muḥarram 14 July 1829] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496561/.

MLA citation style:

Aṣfahānī, Muḥammad Bāqir Ibn Muḥammad Taqī, 1761 Or, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. al-Zahrah al-bāriqah fī al-majāz wa-al-ḥaqīqah /c tālīf Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Mūsawī. [12 Muḥarram 14 July 1829, 1245] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496561/>.