al-Muqaddimah al-Ghaznawīyah
Contributors: ʻAlī ibn al-Dhahab, Shaykh, scribe; Maḥmūd ibn al-Shaykh al-Fattāḥ, former owner; Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1684
Language: ara
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: Islamic law; Early works to 1800; Hanafites; Arabic Manuscripts
Description: 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).

Layout: 14-24 long lines, usually 22.

Script: Naskh in black ink, pointed.

Decoration: Rubrications in red.

Origin: Copy completed in the month of Shaʻbān, 1095 AH (July/Aug. 1684) by al-Shaykh ʻAlī ibn al-Dhahab (f. 44r).

Shelfmark: MS Or 115.

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Electronic reproduction. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Libraries, 2019. Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2020, funded by CLIR.

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Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Arabic.

Formerly owned by Maḥmūd ibn al-Shaykh al-Fattāḥ (inscription f. 1r).

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

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