Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
رسالة في طبقات الفقهاء ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Risālah fī ṭabaqāt al-fuqahāʼ ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 5448Y
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc7w62fk81z
Publisher
[1600-uuuu]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1600-1900
Format
Manuscript
Extent
62 leaves : paper ; 197 x 109 (135 x 62) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts (Yahuda Section), 1208, 1242, 1360, 4656.
Brockelmann, GAL, II, 492 (no. 1); II, 602 (no. 123); II, 948 (10) - 973 (11); S II, 502; S II, 672.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 2a: Risālah fī ṭabaqāt al-fuqahāʼ.
2. fol. 3b-33a: Maljaʼ al-quḍāh ʻinda taʻāruḍ al-bayyināt.
3. fol. 4a-5b: [Unidentified Turkish text].
4. fol. 33b-46b: [Mütafarrikat : istiftaʼat maʻal-fetava]. A collection of legal questions addressed to and/or answered by prominent Shuyūkh al-Islām and judges on issues ranging from alimony to rental practices, debts and commercial transactions. There are also unrelated notes in Arabic and Turkish.
5. fol. 47b-49b: Tarjīḥ al-bayyināt ʻalá al-ijmāl.
6. fol. 52b-62b: Tarjīḥ al-bayyināt. Incomplete at end.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Layout: 27 lines per page.
Incipit: [رسالة في طبقات] اعلم ان الفقهاء على سبع طبقات -- [مجلأ القضاه] سبحان من لاحجة اقوى من کلامه -- [ترجيح البينات على الاجمال] الحمد لله ... بىنات النکاح. بىنة الزوج على سکوت المرأة -- [ترجيح البينات] الحمد لله عظىم البرهان

Discovery Information

Subject
Fatwas—Early works to 1800
Hanafites—Biography—Early works to 1800
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
134

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f4a13dba-5f26-4239-86bd-14abeea046a5/manifest