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Manuscript/Mixed Material Hādhā kitāb al-ʻālim al-ʻāmil ʻShihāb al-Dīn Abd Allāh al-Shinshawrī هذا كتاب العالم العامل شهاب الدين عبد الله الشنشوري

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Title

  • Hādhā kitāb al-ʻālim al-ʻāmil ʻShihāb al-Dīn Abd Allāh al-Shinshawrī

Other Title

  • هذا كتاب العالم العامل شهاب الدين عبد الله الشنشوري

Summary

  • al-Shinshawrī's commentary on Ibn al-Mutafanninah's poem al-Raḥbīyah on the Shāfiʻī school of Islamic inheritance law.

Names

  • Shinshawrī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, 1528 or 1529-1590 or 1591
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 11 Rajab 1280 [22 December 1863]

Headings

  • -  Ibn al-Mutafanninah, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī,--1103 or 1104-1181 or 1182.--Urjūzah al-Raḥbīyah
  • -  Inheritance and succession (Islamic law)--Early works to 1800
  • -  Distribution of decedents' estates (Islamic law)--Early works to 1800
  • -  Shafiites--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a.
  • -  Written by Aḥmad ibn al-Mursalī al-Tilimsānī.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and watermark of three crescent moons in a row in descending order of size and the countermark A G; black ink with rubrication; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, GII, p. 391
  • -  Naskh; 19 lines in written area 15.5 x 8 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-82a.
  • -  "H-0833 = 4.661."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 4-661.
  • -  Binding; black half leather with black grain sides and flap; envelope binding; text block not attached to binding.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة وصلى اللع على سيدنا محمد زعلى اله وصحبه وسلم.. الحمد لله رب العالمين واشهد ان ال اله الا الله وحده لا شريك له، الملك الحق المبين ... وبعد: فيقول العبد الفقير لرحمة ربه القريب المجيب عبد الله الشنشوري الشافعي الفرضي الخطيب ... ان اشرح له لمنظومة الرحبية ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: وكان الفراغ من كتابة هذه النسخة المباركه يوم الاربع المبارك 11 في شهر الله رجب على يد كاتبها لنفسه ومن بعده العبد الفقير الغاني احمد المرسلي التلمساني سنة 1280 غفر اللع له ولوالديه ولمشايخه وللمسلمين امين، وصلى اللع على سيدنا محمد واله سصمبه صسلم تسليما كثرا.

Medium

  • 82 leaves (19 lines), paper : bound ; 21.7 x 16.5 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • KBP632.62.I2615 A37368 1863

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2017481110

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

Additional Metadata Formats

IIIF Presentation Manifest

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:

Shinshawrī, ʻAbd Allāh Ibn Muḥammad, 1528 Or Or 1591, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Hādhā kitāb al-ʻālim al-ʻāmil ʻShihāb al-Dīn Abd Allāh al-Shinshawrī. [11 Rajab 22 December 1863, 1863] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017481110/.

APA citation style:

Shinshawrī, ʻ. A. I. M., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1863) Hādhā kitāb al-ʻālim al-ʻāmil ʻShihāb al-Dīn Abd Allāh al-Shinshawrī. [11 Rajab 22 December 1863] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017481110/.

MLA citation style:

Shinshawrī, ʻAbd Allāh Ibn Muḥammad, 1528 Or Or 1591, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Hādhā kitāb al-ʻālim al-ʻāmil ʻShihāb al-Dīn Abd Allāh al-Shinshawrī. [11 Rajab 22 December 1863, 1863] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2017481110/>.