Descriptive Information

Title

شرح ارجوزة الکفاىة في علم الفرائض.

Transliterated Title

Sharḥ urjūzat al-Kifāyah fī ʻilm al-farāʼiḍ.

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 168B

Identifier

ark:/88435/dcqn59qj744

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1500-1599

Format

Manuscript

Rights Statement

Copyright Not Evaluated

Notes

Fols. 233; 27 x 18.4 cm.; written surface 20 x 12.5 cm.; 31 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; with vowel signs; with catchwords; entries in red.

A commentary on al-Kifāyah fī ʻilm al-farāʼiḍ, the authorʼs own poem on the law of inheritance according to the Shāfiʻite school.

Beg.: بسم الله ... الحمد لله الذي اورث العلماء علم الوراثة

Ending: وتقوي ملکته بالتمرىن فىها ولنورد ذلك في ثلاثة فصول الاول

A few marginal notes and glosses. Title appears on edges. MS incomplete at end; in good condition; Arabic leather binding; gilt stamped and tooling. Rare. Probably from XVIth century.

Acquired from Bārūdī, Beirūt, A.D. 1925.

Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 1107/8.

Discovery Information

Subject

Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad d. 1412—Kifāyah fī ʻilm al-farāʼiḍ

Inheritance and succession (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800

Shafiites—Early works to 1800

Physical Characteristics

File Count

480

Institutional Information

Collection

Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/cbaf18d3-564c-4ab6-b992-e12fedd7432a/manifest

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