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Manuscript/Mixed Material Sharḥ al-Minhāj شرح المنهاج /

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Title

  • Sharḥ al-Minhāj

Other Title

  • شرح المنهاج /

Summary

  • Commentary on al-Bayḍāwī's Minhāj al-wuṣūl ilá ʻilm al-uṣūl on Shāfiʻī uṣūl al-fiqh.

Names

  • Ṣafawī, ʻĪsá ibn Muḥammad, 1494 or 1495-1546 or 1547
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [early 19th century]

Headings

  • -  Bayḍāwī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUmar,---1286?--Minhāj al-wuṣūl ilá ʻilm al-uṣūl
  • -  Islamic law--Interpretation and construction--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; lightly polished dark cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and watermark of a crescent moon with a human face in a lozenge shaped shield and the countermark Andrea Galvani, Pordenone in script; black ink with rubrication; catchwords.
  • -  Naskh; 27 lines in written area 18 x 11 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1-169b (incomplete).
  • -  "H-0658 = 4.181."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 4-181.
  • -  Binding; black half leather with black grain sides and flap; envelope binding; text block not attached to binding.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة وبه ثقتي وهو حسبي. الحمد لله الذي اعلم معالم الاسلام وبين الطرق المعاش والمعاد قوانين الشرع مالاحكام ... وبعد فان الطلبة لما رؤا ما كتبنا في شرح بعد المختصرات من مصنفات الحبر المدقق ... عبد الله بن ابي القاسم علي بن عمر البيضاوي ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: ... واختلف في جواز تقليد الميت اى وان حاكيا عن ميت من اهل الاجتهاد فهل ...

Medium

  • 169 leaves (incomplete), (27 lines), paper : bound ; 25 x 17.6 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • KBP440.62.B393 A363658 1800z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2018371630

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Ṣafawī, ʻĪsá Ibn Muḥammad, 1494 Or Or 1547, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Sharḥ al-Minhāj. [Early 19th Century] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2018371630/.

APA citation style:

Ṣafawī, ʻ. I. M., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. Sharḥ al-Minhāj. [Early 19th Century] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2018371630/.

MLA citation style:

Ṣafawī, ʻĪsá Ibn Muḥammad, 1494 Or Or 1547, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Sharḥ al-Minhāj. [Early 19th Century] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2018371630/>.