Item Summary

A short treatise discussing the legality, according to Shāfiʻite law and jurisprudence, of erecting buildings in the vicinity of rivers.

Descriptive Information

Title
فتح القهار في منع البنا في حريم الانهار / لشيخ الاسلام عيد النمرسي الشافعى.
Transliterated Title
Fatḥ al-qahhār fī manʻ al-bināʼ fī ḥarīm al-anhār / li-Shaykh al-Islām ʻĪd al-Numrusī al-Shāfiʻī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 898H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc7s75dq83q
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1799
Extent
4 leaves : paper ; 230 x 162 (160 x 110) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1832.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from caption (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 4 ; catchwords ; collation note (fol. 3b) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 29-30 lines per page.
Description: Watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: Probably from the XVIIIth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وسلم الحمد لله رب العالمين ... اما بعد فيقول الفقير عيد بن على النمرسى الشافعى قد الف الناس في منع البناء في حريم النهر وزجرهم عن ذلك ...
Colophon: تم ما علقه شيخ الاسلام العلامة الشيخ عيد النمرسي المسمى فتح القهار في منع البناء فى حريم الانهار. تم وکمل
Binding Note
Unbound.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
12

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/2b0f5a13-9411-4824-9ff6-21d41e798d62/manifest