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Manuscript/Mixed Material al-Sirājīyah fī al-farāʼiḍ السراجية في الفرائض

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Title

  • al-Sirājīyah fī al-farāʼiḍ

Other Title

  • السراجية في الفرائض

Summary

  • Treatise on Islamic inheritance law and the shares of an estate awarded to each of the inheritors.

Names

  • Sajāwandī, Sirāj al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, active 12th century
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 993 [1585 or 1586]

Headings

  • -  Inheritance and succession (Islamic law)--Early works to 1800
  • -  Distribution of decedents' estates (Islamic law)--Early works to 1800
  • -  Hanafites--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from spine.
  • -  Scribe not identified.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Written in Madrasat Çorlu (Turkey).
  • -  Paper; cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; text of fol. 57b to the end enclosed in a carelessly ruled border of two red lines; extensive marginal interlinear notes and calculations; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, GI, p. 378.26.I
  • -  Naskh; 5 lines in written area 10 x 6 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-84a, 84b-85b have miscellaneous notes.
  • -  "H-0727 = 4.440."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 4-440.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name at base of spine.
  • -  ‏Incipit: البسملة. الحمد لله حمد الشاكرين والصلوة والسلام على خير البرية محمد واله الطيبين الطاهرين. قال رسول الله ...
  • -  ‏Explicit/Colophon: والله اعلم بالصواب. تمت الكتاب بعون الله في مدرسة چورلى تاريخ سنة 993.

Medium

  • 85 leaves (5 lines), paper : bound ; 21.5 x 16 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • KBP632.43.S245 A34 1585

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2017481047

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

Additional Metadata Formats

IIIF Presentation Manifest

Rights & Access

The contents of the Library of Congress Arabic Language Rare Materials Collection are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions and are free to use and reuse.

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:

Sajāwandī, Sirāj Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad, Active 12Th Century, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. al-Sirājīyah fī al-farāʼiḍ. [993 or 1586, 1585] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017481047/.

APA citation style:

Sajāwandī, S. A. M. I. M., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1585) al-Sirājīyah fī al-farāʼiḍ. [993 or 1586] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017481047/.

MLA citation style:

Sajāwandī, Sirāj Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad, Active 12Th Century, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. al-Sirājīyah fī al-farāʼiḍ. [993 or 1586, 1585] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2017481047/>.