Descriptive Information

Title

كتاب المنار في اصول الفقه الحنفية / لصاحب العمدة في العقايد الدينية

Transliterated Title

Kitāb al-Manār fī uṣūl al-fiqh al-Ḥanafīyah / li-Ṣāḥib al-ʻumdah fī al-ʻaqāʼid al-dīnīyah.

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 4662Y

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/zp38wg25f

Publisher

[1468]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1468

Format

Manuscript

Extent

59 leaves: paper ; 175 x 130 (85 x 75) mm. bound to 175 x 135 mm.

Provenance

Several ownership statements on fol. 1a, in the name of Aḥmad Wahabī, etc., one dated 1168 H. [1754 or 55]. Erased impression of a square seal on fol. 2a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source Acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Yahuda, 895

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title from title page (fol. 1a).

11 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for headings, overlining of keywords and re-inking. Red teardrop textstops. Light cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines visible. Marginal annotations. Several inscriptions, including short excerpts, on fol. 1a.

Ijāzah dated Rabīʻ II 9-3 on fol. 58a-b. Ijāzah signed Muḥammad ibn Ramaḍān al-Ḥanafī, dated Madrasah al-... (in Damascus added by another hand on the margin), Dhū al-Qaʻdah 879 on fol. 59a.

Copy completed on 13 Rajab 872 [Feb. 7, 1468] by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Zuhayrī al-Ḥanafī (colophon, fol. 57b).

Incipit: قال الشيخ العلامة حافظ الدين ابو البركات عبد الله بن احمد بن محمود النسفى رحمه الله الحمد لله الذي هدانا الى الصراط المستقيم والصلوة على من اختصّ بالخلق العظيم وعلى اله الذين قاموا بنصرة الدين القويم اعلم انّ اصول الشرع ثلاثة الكتاب والسنّة واجماع الامة والاصل الرابع القياس

Explicit: وحرمة تحتمل السقوط لكنها لم تسقط بعدد الكرة واحتملت الرخصة ايضا ... ولهذا اذا اصبر في هذين القسمين حتى قتل صار شهيدًا

Binding Note

Paper with gold arabesques on a red(?) ground pasted on paper pasteboards for upper and lower cover and envelope flap. Red leather spine and fore-edge flap. Yellow paper pastedown. Leather doublure visible on the edges and on the fore-edge flap. Spine damaged. Disbound.

Discovery Information

Subject

Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—13th century

Hanafites

Muslim scholars—Certification—History—15th century—Sources

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count

63

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/fe89d653-9a5f-4f7e-8797-10dd377c5173/manifest

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