Item Summary

Contains two treatises on Zaydī fiqh and doctrine followed by a number of medicinal recipes.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب الدرة المنتظمة في فقه الائمة المعتصمة المختصر من الازهار.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Durrah al-muntaẓamah fī fiqh al-aʼimmah al-muʻtaṣamah al-mukhtaṣar min al-Azhār ... [etc.].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 641
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/k35694746
Publisher
[1924?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1924
Format
Manuscript
Extent
ii, 23, ii leaves : paper ; 242 x 180 (175-193 x 122-144) mm. bound to 255 x 188 mm.
Source Acquisition
Purchase; Worldwide Antiquarian, 2007/7/9 (2008-5).
References
Ḥusaynī, A. Muʼallafāt al-Zaydīyah, I, 259
Rights Statement
No Copyright - Contractual Restrictions
Contents
1. fol. 1a-20b: Kitāb al-Durrah al-muntaẓamah fī fiqh al-aʼimmah al-muʻtaṣamah al-mukhtaṣar min al-Azhār / taʼlīf muḥibb lil-āl al-aṭhār Aḥmad ibn Ismāʻīl ibn Ṣāliḥ. An abridgment of Ibn al-Murtaḍá's treatise on Zaydī fiqh, al-Azhār.
2. fol. 20b-21b: Kitāb al-Jawharah al-muntaẓamah fī fiqh al-aʼimmah al-muʻtaṣamah / taʼlīf al-faqīh al-jalīl ʻayn āl Muḥammad al-kirām wa-salīl ahl al-bayt al-kirām. A short work on Zaydī religious requirements.
3. fol. 21b-22a: [Medicinal recipes].
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 1a.
Physical description: Written in indifferent naskhi script in black on tan unglazed, laid European paper. Catchwords; headings in large script. In excellent condition.
Origin: Text 1 dated 17 Rajab 1342 H. [23 February 1924] (fol. 20b). Following texts likely written around the same time.
Incipit (text 1): والحمد لله نحمده ونستعينه ونعوذ به من شرور انفسنا وسيئات اعمالا لا هادي لمن اضل ولا مضل لمن هدى والصلاة والسلام على محمد وعلى وآله وبعد
Binding Note
Recent cloth binding.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law
Zaydīs
Zaydīyah—Doctrines
Traditional medicine—Arab countries

Physical Characteristics

File Count
58

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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