Arabic MS 81 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
Arabic Manuscripts
Contents
A treatise on Maliki fiqh by Ibn Abī Zayd al-Qayrawānī
Title: الرسالة في مذهب الامام مالك
Title: A Treatise on Maliki Jurisprudence
Incipit: قال ابو محمد عبد الله بن ابي زيد القيرواني الحمد الله الذي ابتدا الانسان بنعمته وصوره في الارحام بحكمته ... اما بعد اعاننا الله واياك على رعاية ودايعه ... فانك سالتني ان اكتب لك جملة مختصرة من واجب امور الديانات ... على مذهب مالك بن انس رحمه الله وطريقته
Explicit: اسئل الله ان ينفعنا واياك بما علمنا ويعيننا واياك على القيام بحقه فيما كلفنا ولا حول ولا قوة الخ
Language(s): Arabic
References
Catalogue no. Arabic MS 193 [81]
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: 117 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 195 × 148 mm.
Layout
1 column, 13 written lines
Hand(s)
Naskh
History
Origin: circa 1570 AH
Provenance and Acquisition
Formerly part of the collection of the Persian scholar Nathaniel Bland (1803-1865). Bland’s oriental manuscripts were sold through Bernard Quaritch in 1866 to Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford.
Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands in 1901 from James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford, for the John Rylands Library.
Record Sources
Catalogue information compiled by Abdullah al-Rashidi from Alphonse Mingana, Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, Manchester University Press, 1934.
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