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Manuscript/Mixed Material Sharḥ Manār li-Ibn al-Malak شرح منار لإبن الملك

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Title

  • Sharḥ Manār li-Ibn al-Malak

Other Title

  • شرح منار لإبن الملك

Summary

  • Ibn Malak's commentary on Nasafī's Manār al-anwār on Ḥanafī uṣūl al-fiqh.

Names

  • Ibn Malak, ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • Shaʻban 1117 [November/December 1705]

Headings

  • -  Nasafī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad,---1310.--Manār al-anwār fī al-uṣūl
  • -  Islamic law--Interpretation and construction--Early works to 1800
  • -  Hanafites--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from frontispiece.
  • -  Written by Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; off white laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; black ink with rubrication and overlining; some pages have marginal notations; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, GII, p. 196.I.4
  • -  Naskh; 17 lines in written area 15 x 6.5 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-332a.
  • -  "H-0606 = 4.11."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 4-011.
  • -  Binding; black half leather with black grain sides and flap; envelope binding; text block not attached to binding.
  • -  ‏Incipit: البسملة. لله الحي الاحد حمد لا يحتويه الحد على ما اولانا علم الفروع وجني من ورد روضة الروع ...
  • -  ‏Explicit/Colophon: تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب في يد اضعف العباد ابراهيم بن احمد غفر الله له ولوالديه واحسن اليهما في شعبان المعظم سنة سبع عشر ومائة والف المنسوب في الاقيازي.

Medium

  • 332 leaves (17 lines), paper : bound ; 21.1 x 15 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • KBP440.43.N37 A3635 1705

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2017454665

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Rights & Access

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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 Malak, ʻAbd Al-Laṭīf Ibn ʻAbd Al-ʻAzīz, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Sharḥ Manār li-Ibn al-Malak. [Shaʻban November/December 1705, 1705] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017454665/.

APA citation style:

Ibn Malak, ʻ. A. I. ʻ. A., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1705) Sharḥ Manār li-Ibn al-Malak. [Shaʻban November/December 1705] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017454665/.

MLA citation style:

Ibn Malak, ʻAbd Al-Laṭīf Ibn ʻAbd Al-ʻAzīz, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Sharḥ Manār li-Ibn al-Malak. [Shaʻban November/December 1705, 1705] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2017454665/>.