Item Summary

A fragmentary commentary on Minhāj al-ṭālibīn, an abridgment by al-Nawawī of al-Muḥarrar fī fiqh al-Imām al-Shāfiʻī, a work on Shāfiʻite law by Abū al-Qāsim ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Muḥammad al-Rāfiʻī al-Qazwīnī.

Descriptive Information

Title
[شرح منهاج الطالبين].
Transliterated Title
[Sharḥ Minhāj al-ṭālibīn].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 879H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc9p290n779
Publisher
[16th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1500-1599
Format
Manuscript
Extent
240 leaves : paper ; 275 x 186 (191 x 125) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1795.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Marginal notes and glosses. MS incomplete at the beginning and end.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 272 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 25 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; some vowel signs ; MS in fair condition; worm-eaten.
Origin: Probably from XVI century.
Incipit: الزور والعمل به فليس لله حاجة ان يدع طعامه وشرابه رواه البخارى وفي المستدرك رب صايم ...
Ending: صدق المقرّ له على المذهب لان العين لا يکون دينًا ولا في الذمة وقيل يصدق المقر لاحتمال
Binding Note
Spine of dark brown leather is only remnant of binding.

Discovery Information

Subject
Nawawī 1233-1277—Minhāj al-ṭālibīn
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Shafiites—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
484

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/481544ed-7ab7-4b45-a830-252ae77c6019/manifest