Item Summary

Two unbound bi-folios with a copy of the Ghāyat al-ghawr, on divorce.

Descriptive Information

Title
غور الدور / للامام الغزالي رحمه الله تعالى
Transliterated Title
Ghawr al-dawr / lil-Imām al-Ghazzālī raḥimahu Allāhu taʻālá.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1888Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/f4752g80s
Publisher
[between 12--? and 14--?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1200-1499
Format
Manuscript
Extent
4 leaves: paper ; 190 x 135 (135 x 105) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 1400
Bouyges, M. Essai de chronologie des œuvres de al-Ghazali (Algazel), no. 15
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 425/53
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 1a.
Physical description: 18 lines per page. Written in casual medium small naskh in black ink ; almost entirely undotted. Dark cream paper, with regular laid lines and pulp visible. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first fol.).
Origin: The copy is not dated. R. Mach dates it to the 6th century H.
Incipit: قال الشيخ الامام حجة الاسلام ابو حامد محمد بن محمد الغزالى الطوسى رحمه الله الحمد لله ذى الفضل والنعم والطول والكرم ... اما بعد فانى لما دخلت بغداد سنة اربع وثمانين واربعماية

Discovery Information

Subject
Divorce (Islamic law)—History—11th century—Sources
Divorce (Islamic law)—History—12th century—Sources
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
16

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/b679cc29-c5d4-452f-bd35-762bb1b46da0/manifest