Title: ‘Unwān al-sharaf
Description: [A compendium of Muhammadan law according to the Shāfiʿī school, so written, that the first and last letters of each line, and two other perpendicular columns in the middle of the page, offer, when read from above downwards, four other treatises, namely, (1) on prosody ; (2) a history of the Rasūlī dynasty of Yemen ; (3) a treatise on grammar ; and (4) a treatise on rhyme. Edited, with marginal glosses, by Muḥammad Hādī ʿAlī.].
Subjects: Islamic law, Shafiites, Arabic language, Versification, History
Places: Yemen (Republic)