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Manuscript/Mixed Material Kitāb Sharḥ al-Raḥbīyah كتاب شرح الرحبية /

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Title

  • Kitāb Sharḥ al-Raḥbīyah

Other Title

  • كتاب شرح الرحبية /

Summary

  • Sibṭ al-Māridīnī's commentary on Ibn al-Mutafanninah's Raḥbīyah on Islamic inheritance law.

Names

  • Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1423-
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 15 Jumādá al-awwal 1015 [18 September 1606]

Headings

  • -  Ibn al-Mutafanninah, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī,--1103 or 1104-1181 or 1182.--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.
  • -  Scribe not identified.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; yellowed cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and very faint armorial(?) watermark; black ink; dampstaining on top, fore edge, and bottom; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, GI, p. 391; SI, p. 675
  • -  Cursive naskh; 27 lines in written area 15.5 x 12 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-15b.
  • -  "H-0829 = 4.657."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 4-657.
  • -  Binding; red half leather with light blue and gold marbled paper sides and flap; envelope binding; text block not attached to binding.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم. يقول الشيخ الامام العلاامة محمد بن محمد سبط المرحوم المقدسي المارديني رضي اللع تعالى عنهم الحمد لله رب الهالمين ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: وافق الفراغ من نسخة في يوم الخميس خامس عشرة جمادى الاول احد شهور العام الخامس عشر بعد الالف فتمت بخير امين ...

Medium

  • 15 leaves (27 lines), paper : bound ; 20.7 x 15.3 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • KBP632.62.I2615 A3737 1606

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2017498259

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Sibṭ Al-Māridīnī, Badr Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb Sharḥ al-Raḥbīyah. [15 Jumādá al-awwal 18 September 1606, 1606] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017498259/.

APA citation style:

Sibṭ Al-Māridīnī, B. A. M. I. M., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1606) Kitāb Sharḥ al-Raḥbīyah. [15 Jumādá al-awwal 18 September 1606] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017498259/.

MLA citation style:

Sibṭ Al-Māridīnī, Badr Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb Sharḥ al-Raḥbīyah. [15 Jumādá al-awwal 18 September 1606, 1606] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2017498259/>.