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كتاب الكشف في اصول الفقه
Kitāb al-Kashf fī uṣūl al-fiqh.
Author
Nasafī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, -1310
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نسفي، عبد الله بن احمد
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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/Created
[ 1337]
Description
205, i leaves: paper ; 265 x 183 (188 x 135) mm. bound to 266 x 205 mm.
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Special Collections - Manuscripts
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3649Y
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Nasafī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad -1310
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Manār al-anwār
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Islamic law
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Interpretation and construction
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Hanafites
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Manuscripts, Arabic
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New Jersey
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Summary note
Commentary by the author on his Manār al-anwār fī uṣūl al-fiqh.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 3a).
25 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Ḥāshiyah on the margins. Fol. 3 is pasted on the next folio. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (first fly-leaves with inscriptions are counted fol. 1-3). Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Uṣūl thānī 55".
Copy completed on Friday 29 Jumādá al-Awwal 737 [January 3, 1337]. Copy of the mamlūk Āqbughābākī Ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Malikī al-Nāṣīrī (colophon, fol. 205a).
Collation: Paper, fol. ii, 203, i ; iii (fly-leaves, with inscriptions ; fol. iii is pasted on the first fol. of the first quire) + 1¹⁰ 2-19¹⁰ 20¹⁰ (+2, fol. 194 and 205 + i ; catchword on the verso of each leaf, except central bifolio of each quire ; the quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals, in the form "thānī" (see fol. 14a).
Incipit: احمد الله ذا الحجة الباهرة والعزة القاهرة على نعمه العظام ... قال مولانا الصدر ... ابو البركات عبد الله بن احمد بن محمود النسفى ... لما رايت الهمم مايلة الى علم اصول الفقه
Explicit: ليس كذلك فهو مومن والجواب ان معناه انما الكاملو الايمان والحمد لله وحده
Binding note
Upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap made of red leather. Black embossed paper pasted over covers and envelope flap. Traces of a leather embossed doublure on fol. 205b.
Provenance
Two ownership statements, one signed ʻUthmān Hadī ibn Muṣṭafá (fol. 1a), the other signed Nūḥādīʹzādah(?), with seal reading "al-Sayyid Aḥmad Nūrī" (fol. 3a). Seal on fol. 204a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 896
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 250/cmt. 1b
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 263
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Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
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Other title(s)
كتاب كشف الاسرار في شرح المنار
كشف الاسرار في شرح المنار
Title in a note on fol. 1a
Kitāb Kashf al-asrār fī sharḥ al-Manār
Kashf al-asrār fī sharḥ al-Manār
OCLC
77561610
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