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Manuscript/Mixed Material Kitāb al-Minhāj كتاب المنهاج / / Daqāʼiq al-Minhāj lil-Shaykh al-Nawawī fī fiqh al-Shāfiʻī

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Title

  • Kitāb al-Minhāj

Other Title

  • كتاب المنهاج /
  • Daqāʼiq al-Minhāj lil-Shaykh al-Nawawī fī fiqh al-Shāfiʻī

Summary

  • al-Nawawī's own comments and corrections on his Minhāj al-ṭālibīn.

Names

  • Nawawī, 1233-1277
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 11 Jumādá al-ākhir 851 [24 August 1447]

Headings

  • -  Nawawī,--1233-1277.--Minhāj al-ṭālibīn
  • -  Hadith--Criticism, interpretation, etc.--Early works to 1800
  • -  Islam--Customs and practices--Early works to 1800
  • -  Islam--Rituals--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a.
  • -  Scribe not identified.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; heavy, unpolished dark cream color paper with no visible watermarks; black ink with rubrication; catchwords added in a different hand at a later date.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, GI, p. 394
  • -  Naskh; 13 lines in written area 12.5 x 9.5 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-22a.
  • -  "39. IV 2252 = 4.521."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 4-521.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name in lower right corner of cover.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة. الحمد لله رب العلمين. قال رحمه الله . قوله في المحرر سبحانك منصوب على انه اسم واقع موقع المصدر اي سبحنت الله سبحانه اي نزهته من النقايص مطلقا ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: وكان الفراغ منه في شهر جمادى الآخر يوم الاحد عاشر يوم فيه سنة احد وخمسين وثمان ماية. عفا الله عن كاتبه وقاريه ومن نظر فيه وجميع المسلمين وختم له بخير

Medium

  • 22 leaves (13 lines), paper : bound ; 18 x 14 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP135.N283 D37 1447

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016496756

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:

Nawawī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb al-Minhāj. [11 Jumādá al-ākhir 851 24 August, 1447] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496756/.

APA citation style:

Nawawī, Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1447) Kitāb al-Minhāj. [11 Jumādá al-ākhir 851 24 August] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496756/.

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Nawawī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb al-Minhāj. [11 Jumādá al-ākhir 851 24 August, 1447] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496756/>.