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Manuscript/Mixed Material Kitāb Sharḥ al-Raḥbīyah شرح الرحبية /

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Title

  • Kitāb Sharḥ al-Raḥbīyah

Other Title

  • شرح الرحبية /

Summary

  • Commentary on Ibn al-Mutafanninah's poem on Islamic inheritance law.

Names

  • Tatāʼī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, -1535 or 1536
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [17th century?]

Contents

  • Fol. 1b-20a. Sharh ̣al-Raḥbīyah / Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Tatāʼī -- fol. 20a-22b. Hādhā Ḍabṭ ḥasan li-bāb aḥjab fa-ʻalayka al-rijāl al-wārithūn.

Headings

  • -  Ibn al-Mutafanninah, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī,--1103 or 1104-1181 or 1182.--Raḥbīyah
  • -  Inheritance and succession (Islamic law)--Early works to 1800
  • -  Hanafites--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; unpolished, dark cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; black ink with rubrication; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, GII, p. 316; SII, p. 435
  • -  Naskh; 13 lines in written area 16 x 10 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-22b.
  • -  "41. IV 2329 = 4.676."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 4-676.
  • -  Binding; red half leather with blue and gold marbled paper over boards on sides and flap; envelope binding; text block not attached to binding.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة وبه ثقتي. الحمد لله رب العالمين زالصلاة والسلام على اشرف المرسلين محمد خاتم النبيين على آله وصحبه اجمعين الى يوم الدين. اما بعد فان بعدض الطلبة المبتديين سالني ان اجعل له ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: تم الكتاب بحمد الله وعونه وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم تسليما كثيرا دايما ابدا الى يوم الدين امين.

Medium

  • 22 leaves (13 lines), paper : bound ; 21.7 x 15.5 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • KBP632.62.I2615 A3738 1600z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016503152

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:

TatāʼĪ, Muḥammad Ibn Ibrāhīm, -1535 Or 1536, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb Sharḥ al-Raḥbīyah. [17th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016503152/.

APA citation style:

Tatāʼī, M. I. I., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. Kitāb Sharḥ al-Raḥbīyah. [17th Century?] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016503152/.

MLA citation style:

TatāʼĪ, Muḥammad Ibn Ibrāhīm, -1535 Or 1536, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb Sharḥ al-Raḥbīyah. [17th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016503152/>.