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Manuscript/Mixed Material Maʻālim al-dīn wa-malādh al-mujtahidīn معالم الدين وملاذ المجتهدين /

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Title

  • Maʻālim al-dīn wa-malādh al-mujtahidīn

Other Title

  • معالم الدين وملاذ المجتهدين /

Summary

  • Treatise on Shīʻah uṣūl al-fiqh.

Names

  • Ibn al-Shahīd al-Thānī, al-Ḥasan, 1551 or 1552-1602 or 1603
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • Ṣafar 1112 [July/August 1700]

Headings

  • -  Islamic law--Interpretation and construction--Early works to 1800
  • -  Shīʻah--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; lightly polished cream color laid paper with no visible chain lines or watermarks; black ink with rubrication and overlining; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, SII, p. 450
  • -  Naskh; 15 lines in written area 11.5 x 5 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-144a.
  • -  "H-0655 = 4.175."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 4-175.
  • -  Binding; black half leather with black grain sides and flap; envelope binding; text block not attached to binding.
  • -  ‏Incipit: البسملة. الحمد لله المتعالى في عز جلاله عن مطاره الافهام ...
  • -  ‏Explicit/Colophon: وقد تمت كتابته في شهر صفر المعظم سنة اثنى عشر ومائة بعد، بعد الالف الهجرية على هاجرها الف السلوة ولاسلام والتحية سنة 1112.

Medium

  • 1, 144 leaves (15 lines), paper : bound ; 16.3 x 10 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • KBP440.76.I267 A36 1700

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2017481151

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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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:

Ibn Al-Shahīd Al-Thānī, Al-Ḥasan, 1551 Or Or 1603, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Maʻālim Al-Dīn Wa-Malādh Al-Mujtahidīn. [Ṣafar July/August 1700, 1700] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017481151/.

APA citation style:

Ibn Al-Shahīd Al-Thānī, A., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1700) Maʻālim Al-Dīn Wa-Malādh Al-Mujtahidīn. [Ṣafar July/August 1700] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017481151/.

MLA citation style:

Ibn Al-Shahīd Al-Thānī, Al-Ḥasan, 1551 Or Or 1603, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Maʻālim Al-Dīn Wa-Malādh Al-Mujtahidīn. [Ṣafar July/August 1700, 1700] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2017481151/>.