Item Summary

Treatise on Shiʻite fiqh, incomplete at end.

Descriptive Information

Title
معالم الدين وملاذ المجتهدين.
Transliterated Title
Maʻālim al-dīn wa-malādhdh al-mujtahidīn.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 436
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/qr46r3429
Publisher
[between 1775 and 1825]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1775-1825
Format
Manuscript
Extent
172 leaves : paper ; 208 x 148 (132 x 91) mm bound to 208 x 153 mm
Provenance
On leaf 1a, owner's note and stamp dated Rabīʻ II 1315 H [September 1897].
References
Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 598
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 426 (2 : no. 1); SII, 450
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from leaf 3a, lines 3-4.
Physical description: 12 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords; rubricated through leaf 63. Some staining and a few leaves detached.
Origin: Likely late 18th/early 19th century.
Incipit: الحمد لله المتعالي في عز جلاله عن مطارح الافهام فلا يحيط بكنهه العارفون
Binding Note
Limp brown leather with blind-tooling.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800
Shīʻah—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
182

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/6e6ad1cf-9532-4f57-ac41-ecd1b2e18762/manifest