Item Summary

Treatise on Shiʻite fiqh.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب اصلاح / مرحوم سيد محمد طباطبائي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Iṣlāḥ / marḥūm Sayyid Muḥammad Ṭabāṭabāʼī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 36
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/g732dc607
Publisher
[between 1800 and 1825?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1800-1825
Format
Manuscript
Extent
122 leaves : paper ; 206 x 166 (163 x 109) mm bound to 209 x 170 mm
Provenance
On leaf 1a, waqf statement dated 1259 H [1843 or 1844].
References
Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 373
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 826 (10: no. 4)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from leaf 2a.
Physical description: 16 lines per page; written in shikastah in black on blue glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords. Occasional staining.
Origin: Likely early 19th century.
Incipit: الحمد لله الذي مهد لنا طريق الاصلاح ... فيقول ... هذا کتاب جمعت فيه مسائل الحلال و الحرام
Binding Note
Limp black leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants and blind-tooled fillets.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law
Shīʻah
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
donation inscriptions

Physical Characteristics

File Count
127

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/7fbe175a-a208-4864-a50a-36b8579699d3/manifest