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Manuscript/Mixed Material Kitāb Ḍawʼ al-shumūʻ ʻalá sharḥ al-Majmuʼʻ كتاب ضوء الشموع علىشرح المجموع /

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Title

  • Kitāb Ḍawʼ al-shumūʻ ʻalá sharḥ al-Majmuʼʻ

Other Title

  • كتاب ضوء الشموع علىشرح المجموع /

Summary

  • Amīr al-Kabīr's commentary on his own work Majmūʻ fī al-fiqh on the Mālikī school of Islamic law.

Names

  • Amīr al-Kabīr, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1742-1817
  • Kassāb, Manṣūr, -1863, scribe
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 10 Shaʻbān 1252 [20 November 1836]

Headings

  • -  Amīr al-Kabīr, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad,--1742-1817.--Majmūʻ fī al-fiqh
  • -  Islamic law
  • -  Malikites
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a.
  • -  Written by Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥājj Mūsá Kassāb al-Ṣaʻīdī al-ʻAdawī.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; lightly polished 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 [Andrea Galvani]; black ink with rubrication; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, SII, p. 738
  • -  Naskh; 25 lines in written area 17 x 12 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-247b.
  • -  "H-0800 = 4.606."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 4-606.
  • -  Binding; black half leather with black grain sides and flap; envelope binding; text block not attached to binding.
  • -  Incipit: البسلمة وبه ثقتي واعتمادي. لك الحمد يا رافع الدرجات ومنزل الكتاب والاحكام الشرعيات ... اما بعد. فيقول العبد الفقير محمد بن محمد الامير ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: ووافق فراغ كتابة هذه النسخة المباركة يوم السبت المبارك الذي هو عاشر يوم خلت من شهر شعبان المكرم الذي هو من شهور 1252 اثنين وخمسين ومايتين والف على يد افقر العباد واحوجهم يوم التناد الى الملك الوهاب الفقير منصور بن محمد بن الحاج موسى كساب الصعيدي العدوي غفر الله له ولوالديه والمسلمين اجمعين امين.

Medium

  • 247 leaves (25 lines), paper : bound ; 21 x 16.5 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • KBP320.A53 A3633 1836

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2017481145

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Amīr Al-Kabīr, Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad, Manṣūr Kassāb, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb Ḍawʼ al-shumūʻ ʻalá sharḥ al-Majmuʼʻ. [10 Shaʻbān 20 November 1836, 1836] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017481145/.

APA citation style:

Amīr Al-Kabīr, M. I. M., Kassāb, M., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1836) Kitāb Ḍawʼ al-shumūʻ ʻalá sharḥ al-Majmuʼʻ. [10 Shaʻbān 20 November 1836] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017481145/.

MLA citation style:

Amīr Al-Kabīr, Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad, et al. Kitāb Ḍawʼ al-shumūʻ ʻalá sharḥ al-Majmuʼʻ. [10 Shaʻbān 20 November 1836, 1836] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2017481145/>.