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Manuscript/Mixed Material Kitāb matn al-Sirājīyah fī al-farāyiḍ كتاب متن السراجية في الفرايض / Kitāb matn al-Sirājīyah fī al-farāʼiḍ

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Title

  • Kitāb matn al-Sirājīyah fī al-farāyiḍ

Other Title

  • كتاب متن السراجية في الفرايض
  • Kitāb matn al-Sirājīyah fī al-farāʼiḍ

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

  • [17th century?]

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 fol. 1a.
  • -  Scribe not identified.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; unpolished, cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and watermark of three crescent moons in a row in descending order of size; faded black color ink with rubrication and overlining; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, GI, p. 378.26.I
  • -  Naskh; 17 lines in written area 16 x 10 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-20b, text ends in the middle of fol. 19b, the rest of the sheet and fol. 20a and b are commentary, presumably by the scribe.
  • -  "H-0729 = 4.442."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 4-442.
  • -  Binding; brown half leather with navy blue grain sides and flap; envelope binding; text block not attached to binding.
  • -  ‏Incipit: البسملة. الحمد لله حمد الشاكرين والصلوة والسلام على خير البرية محمد واله الطيبين الطاهرين. قال رسول الله ...
  • -  ‏Explicit/Colophon: تمت الشراجية بعون الله واهب العطية والصلوة والسلام على سيدنا محمد خير الورى سجية وعلى اله ماصحابه البررة النقية كل صبح من عشية والحمد لله الدايم فضل على البرية امين.

Medium

  • 20 leaves (17 lines), paper : bound ; 21.3 x 16.3 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • KBP632.43.S245 A34 1600z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2017481049

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Sajāwandī, Sirāj Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad, Active 12Th Century, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb matn al-Sirājīyah fī al-farāyiḍ. [17th Century?, 1600] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017481049/.

APA citation style:

Sajāwandī, S. A. M. I. M., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1600) Kitāb matn al-Sirājīyah fī al-farāyiḍ. [17th Century?] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017481049/.

MLA citation style:

Sajāwandī, Sirāj Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad, Active 12Th Century, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb matn al-Sirājīyah fī al-farāyiḍ. [17th Century?, 1600] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2017481049/>.