Item Summary

General treatise on Shafīʻī law.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب الاشباه والنظائر في الفقه الشافعي / للامام السيوطي
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Ashbāh wa-al-naẓāʼir fī al-fiqh al-Shāfiʻī / lil-Imām al-Suyūṭī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 102Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/08612r164
Publisher
[ 15--?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1500-1599
Extent
i, ii, 170, i, i leaves: paper ; 260 x 180 (200 x 125) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 1480
Iqbāl, A. al-Shirqāwī. Maktabat al-Jalāl al-Suyūṭī (1977), no. 51
Shaybānī, M. Dalīl makhṭūṭāt al-Suyūṭī (1995), no. 211
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from modern title page (fol. (ii)a).
26 lines per page. Written in medium small clear naskh in black ink for headings and re-inking. Thick light cream paper. The upper half of the first fol. is damaged with important loss of text. Some leaves are mended, with the text recopied on the repair (see fol. 1, 2). Inscription on fol. 169b. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first fol.).
Incipit (starting at "amma baʻd", the beginning of the text being partly lost partly illegible due to water damage): اما بعد فعلم الفقه بحوره زاخرة ورياضة ناضرة
Explicit: ومسئلة من مات وعليه صوم القديم يصوم عنه وليه و مسئلة [---] عصا القديم استجابه اخر الكتاب
Binding Note
Modern library binding.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Shafiites
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
177

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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