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Manuscript/Mixed Material Tuḥfat al-anām bi-tawrīth dhawī al-arḥām هذا كتاب تحفة الانام بتوريث ذوي الارحام /

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Title

  • Tuḥfat al-anām bi-tawrīth dhawī al-arḥām

Other Title

  • هذا كتاب تحفة الانام بتوريث ذوي الارحام /

Summary

  • Treatise on Islamic inheritance law according to the Shāfiʻī school.

Names

  • Sujāʻī, Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad, -1783?
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 15 Jumādá al-ukhrá 1222 [20 August 1807]

Headings

  • -  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.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; slightly yellowed, cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and watermark of three crescent moons in a row in descending order of size; black ink; catchwords.
  • -  Naskh; 27 lines in written area 17.5 x 9 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-5b.
  • -  "H-0855 = 4.698."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 4-698.
  • -  Binding; brown half leather with dark blue grain sides and flap; envelope binding; text block not attached to binding.
  • -  ‏Incipit: البسملة. حمدا لمن امر بصلة الارحام ... اما بعد فيقول الفقير لمولاه الداعي احمد بن احمد الشافعي السجاعي ...
  • -  ‏Explicit/Colophon: وكان الفراغ من زبره يوم الاثنين المباركة بخمسة عشرة ليلة من جمادى الاخرى من شهور سنة 1222 اثنين وعشرين ومايا والف من هجرة ...

Medium

  • 5 leaves (27 lines), paper : bound ; 22 x 15.4 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • KBP632.62.S85 A38 1807

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2017498250

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

SujāʻĪ, Aḥmad Ibn Aḥmad, -1783?, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Tuḥfat Al-Anām Bi-Tawrīth Dhawī Al-Arḥām. [15 Jumādá al-ukhrá 20 August 1807, 1807] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017498250/.

APA citation style:

Sujāʻī, A. I. A., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1807) Tuḥfat Al-Anām Bi-Tawrīth Dhawī Al-Arḥām. [15 Jumādá al-ukhrá 20 August 1807] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017498250/.

MLA citation style:

SujāʻĪ, Aḥmad Ibn Aḥmad, -1783?, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Tuḥfat Al-Anām Bi-Tawrīth Dhawī Al-Arḥām. [15 Jumādá al-ukhrá 20 August 1807, 1807] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2017498250/>.