الغاية القصوى في دراية الفتوى

al-Ghāyah al-quṣwá fī dirāyat al-fatwá.

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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
Tabrīz, [1328]
Description
i, 140 leaves : paper ; 234 x 144 (165 x 92) mm. bound to 242 x 157 mm.

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    Summary note
    Abridgment of al-Wasīṭ fī al-madhhab by al-Ghazzālī (d. 505/1111), with a short excerpt from the Iʻlām fī mabānī al-Islām by Abū Bakr ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ḥusayn? (Bāb fī bayān al-taysīr, fol. 1b-2b).
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title from beginning of text (fol. 3b, l. 17).
    • 23 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink, with use of red and blue (see fol. 134a). Occasional marginal notes. Notes on small pieces of paper between fol. 75 and 76, 124 and 125. Several short texts on fol. 1a, 138a-140a. Dark cream paper, glossy, with no chain or laid lines visible. Some leaves are later replacements, on European glazed paper with watermark (see fol. 4-10). Label pasted on the upper cover, with the mention "769" in Arabic numerals.
    • Copied in Tabrīz, in the Madrasah al-Ṣāḥibīyah in the night of Saturday 2 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 728 (colophon, fol. 137b).
    • Incipit: بسم ... الحمد لله الذى ابدع الخلق واعاد ... هذا وان علم الفقه مما لا يخفى جلاله وقدره
    • Explicit: وعلى لفظ العتق نختم كتابنه ونرجوا ان يعتق الله من النار رقابنا تم الكتاب
    Binding note
    Upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap made of dark brown leather over paper pasteboards. The upper and lower covers are similarly blind-tooled with a central mandorla linked by one single gold painted vertical fillet to the outer frame, consisting of fillets and an s-shape running pattern. The envelope flap has a similar outer frame with a blind stamp on the pointe. paper pastedowns. Rebacked.
    Provenance
    Ownership statements on fol. 3a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    • Mach, R. Yahuda, 1399
    • Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 418/III
    • Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 753 (III/49, Auszug a)
    OCLC
    70181841
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