ms. 47975 (SOAS Library, School of Oriental and African Studies)
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Contents
Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Bahjat al-nāẓirīn ilá tarājim al-mutaʼakhkhirīn min al-Shāfiʻīyah al-bāriʻīn by Raḍī al-Ghazzī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 1408 or 1409-1459 or 1460
Biographical dictionary of Shafi'i theologians who lived at the end of the 14th century. Copied from a manuscript in the Public Library in Damascus
Incipit: قال العبد الفقير ... رضي الدين ... العامرى الغزى الشافعي ... الحمد لله مدبر الامور مميت الاحياء وباعث من فى القبور ... وبعد فهذا مختصر لطيف قصدت ... به ترجمة الايمة من اصحابنا الشافعية المتاخرين
Colophon: تم الكتاب...بقلم محمد صادق ابن امین المالح...وذلک فی اليوم الثامن من شهر رمضان سنه الف وثلاثمایه وخمس وعشرین
Language(s): Arabic
References
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: 156 f.
Dimensions (leaf): 24 × 17.5 cm.
Dimensions (written): 17.5 × 10.5 cm.
Layout
Hand(s)
Neat modern naskhi hand
History
Origin: 1325 AH; 1907 CE
Provenance and Acquisition
Gregorian.
Record Sources
"Manuscript description based on Adam Gacek : Catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1981".
Availability
Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card for admissions procedures contact SOAS Archives and Special Collections Admissions. Contact docenquiry@soas.ac.uk for further information on the availability of this manuscript. Microfiche copy available for purchase from : Brill - IDC Publishers.
Funding of Cataloguing
JISC
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