Collection ID: 0032 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

al-Muqaddimah al-Ghaznawīyah.
المقدمة الغزنوية

Authors

• Ghaznawī, Aḥmad, -1196 or 1197
  غزنوي، احمد،

Other related names

• ʻAlī ibn al-Dhahab, Shaykh, scribe
  علي بن الذهب،
• Maḥmūd ibn al-Shaykh al-Fattāḥ, former owner
  محمود بن الشيخ الفتاح.
• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner

Call number

MS Or 115
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13616004
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1076493793
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_115.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13616004

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

1684

Summary

Work about Hanafi practice. The first section is about the virtues of Abū Ḥanīfah, followed by sections on jurisprudence of rituals including ritual purification, prayer, traveler's prayer, Friday prayer, alms, and fasting.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from title statement (f.4r) and colophon (f. 44r).
   

Extent

48 leaves : 202 x 146 (155 x 106) mm, bound to 203 x 156 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Light brown leather with envelope flap. Covers blind stamped with central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis and blind tooled frame.

Layout

14-24 long lines, usually 22.

Decoration

Rubrications in red.

Script

Naskh in black ink, pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   
• Formerly owned by Maḥmūd ibn al-Shaykh al-Fattāḥ (inscription f. 1r).
   

Subjects topical

• Islamic law--Early works to 1800
• Hanafites--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Arabic

Genres

• Manuscripts

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 4r — al-Muqaddimah al-Ghaznawīyah

Decorations

• Insert recto — Table
• fol. 44r — Table