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

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Title

  • Ḍawʼ al-shumūʻ ʻalá sharḥ al-Majmuʼʻ

Other Title

  • 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
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • Rabīʻ al-thānī 1286 [July/August 1869]

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.
  • -  Scribe not identified.
  • -  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 a crescent moon with a human face within a lozenge shaped shield and the countermark A G [Andrea Galvani]; black ink; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, SII, p. 738
  • -  Naskh; 25 lines in written area 17.5 x 10 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-268a.
  • -  "H-0801 = 4.607."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 4-607.
  • -  Binding; black half leather with black grain sides and flap; envelope binding; text block not attached to binding.
  • -  Incipit: البسلمة. لك الحمد يا رافع الدرجات ومنزل الكتاب والاحكام الشرعيات ... اما بعد. فيقول العبد الفقير محمد بن محمد الامير ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: وافق فراغ هذه النسخة المباركة يوم الجمعة المبارك من شهر ربيع الثاني الذي هو من شهور عام سنة 1286 الف وماتين ستة وثمانين من الهجرة النبوية على ساكنها افضل الصلاة والسلام امين.

Medium

  • 268 leaves (25 lines), paper : bound ; 22 x 17 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • KBP320.A53 A3633 1869

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2017481146

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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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:

Amīr Al-Kabīr, Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Ḍawʼ al-shumūʻ ʻalá sharḥ al-Majmuʼʻ. [Rabīʻ al-thānī July/August 1869, 1869] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017481146/.

APA citation style:

Amīr Al-Kabīr, M. I. M., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1869) Ḍawʼ al-shumūʻ ʻalá sharḥ al-Majmuʼʻ. [Rabīʻ al-thānī July/August 1869] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017481146/.

MLA citation style:

Amīr Al-Kabīr, Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Ḍawʼ al-shumūʻ ʻalá sharḥ al-Majmuʼʻ. [Rabīʻ al-thānī July/August 1869, 1869] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2017481146/>.