Item Summary

Commentary on Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī's Zubdat al-uṣūl, a treatise on uṣūl al-fiqh.

Descriptive Information

Title
[غاية المأمول في شرح زبدة الصول].
Transliterated Title
[Ghāyat al-maʼmūl fī sharḥ Zubdat al-uṣūl].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 2073
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/8623j1331
Publisher
[1854 or 1855]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1854-1855
Format
Manuscript
Extent
247 leaves : paper ; 215 x 148 (142 x 71) mm
References
Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 253
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 597 (no. 17, commentary b)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title provided by cataloger per Mach and Ormsby. The title is given in the text on leaf 4b, line 7, but there is a blank space left for the first word to be written in red.
Physical description: 19 lines per page; written in small, neat naskh in black on machine-made paper. Catchwords and rubrication, but some spaces left for rubrication not filled in. Occasional staining.
Origin: 1271 H [1854 or 1855], by Muḥammad ʻAlī ibn Mullā Ibrāhīm (leaf 244a).
Incipit: نحمدك يا من وقفنا لسلوك طريق العمل ... وبعد فيقول ... محمد المشتهر بالجواد الکاظمي ... لا يخفي على احد شرف علم الاصول.
Binding Note
Loose in folder consisting of full brown leather with blind-stamped central design, pendants, cornerpieces, and fillets.

Discovery Information

Subject
ʻĀmilī, Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn 1547-1621—Zubdat al-uṣūl
Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800
Shīʻah—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
256

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/d1be3152-5c1d-4c27-9cb9-dbbf54d9582d/manifest