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Manuscript/Mixed Material Hidāyat al-fattāḥ li-matn māniʻ al-saffāḥ هداية الفتاح لمتن مانع السفاح /

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Title

  • Hidāyat al-fattāḥ li-matn māniʻ al-saffāḥ

Other Title

  • هداية الفتاح لمتن مانع السفاح /

Summary

  • Aḥmad al-Rifāʻī's poem on the prevention of killing.

Names

  • Rifāʻī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, 1106?-1182
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [17th century?]

Headings

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

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from cover.
  • -  Written by ʻAlī al-Shaqā[?] al-Damīn[?] [illegible] al-Shāfiʻī
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; lightly polished light tan color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; black ink with rubrication; manuscript seems incomplete; 14 lines of poetry and a catchword follow the text of the Hidāyat al-fattāḥ; catchwords.
  • -  Naskh; 23 lines in written area 15.5 x 9.5 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-8b.
  • -  "40. IV 2288 = 4.642."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 4-642.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name in lower right corner of cover.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة وبه نستعين. يقول راجي ذي الحيا الواسع، ذو العجز احمد الرفاعي الشافعي // والحمد لله الذي قد حلالا، عقد النكاح والسفاح ابطلا ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: تمت كتابة هذه النسخة المباركة بعون الله تعالى وحسن توفيقه على يد كاتبها نفسه الفقثر علي الشرقا الدمسن ___ الشافعي غفر الله له.

Medium

  • 8 leaves (23 lines), paper : bound ; 20.3 x 15 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • KBP542.62.R54 A34 1600z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016496830

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

RifāʻĪ, Aḥmad Ibn ʻAlī, 1106?-1182, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Hidāyat Al-Fattāḥ LI-MATN Māniʻ Al-Saffāḥ. [17th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496830/.

APA citation style:

Rifāʻī, A. I. ʻ., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. Hidāyat Al-Fattāḥ LI-MATN Māniʻ Al-Saffāḥ. [17th Century?] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496830/.

MLA citation style:

RifāʻĪ, Aḥmad Ibn ʻAlī, 1106?-1182, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Hidāyat Al-Fattāḥ LI-MATN Māniʻ Al-Saffāḥ. [17th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496830/>.