Descriptive Information

Title

منهاج في الفقه

Transliterated Title

Minhāj fī al-fiqh.

Call Number

Islamic manuscripts, Garrett no. 5647Y

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/z603r1054

Publisher

[Caucasus, 1855 or 1856?]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1855

Format

Manuscript

Extent

i, 340 leaves : paper ; 220 x 170 (145 x 100) mm. bound to 230 x 185 mm.

Provenance

From the books of the entourage of Imām Shamīl. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source Acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Yahuda, 1426

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title from label pasted on the fore-edge flap (horizontal). The inscription reads: "Minhāj fī al-fiqh 247".

Physical description: 12 lines per page. Written in taʻlīq in black ink with use of green for headings, often written on a dark yellow ground, with vocalization in red. Use of yellow and green for re-inking and filling. Subject headings on the margin in black, red, magenta, and blue. Annotations on the margins and between the lines, and on slips of paper placed between the original leaves.

Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Thānī 336". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 1224".

Three slips with annotations are re-used letters (now shelved separately). See M. Kemper, Shikhsaidov, A., Tagirova, N. The Library of Imam Shamil, Princeton University Library Chronicle, vol. LXIV (2002), p. 135 and n. 38, and p. 139 and n. 43.

Origin: A note at the end of the text seems to indicate that the ḥāshiyah(?) was completed in 1272 H. [1855 or 6] (see fol. 338b).

Incipit: الحمد لله البر الجواد الدى جلت نعمه عن الاحصاء بالاعداد ... اما بعد فان الاشتغال بالعلم من افضل الطاعات واولى ما انفعت فيه نغائس الاوقات وقد اكثر اصحابنا رحمهم الله من التصنيف من المبسوطات والمختصرات

Explicit: وعتف المستولدة من راس المال

Discovery Information

Subject

Shāmil Imām 1798?-1871

Islamic law—History—13th century—Sources

Shafiites—Early works to 1800

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count

480

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/4ca51a7a-919a-462c-bb5f-852390a0729b/manifest

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