Islamic law

‘Abd Allah ibn Mahmud al-Mawsili. Al-Ikhtiyar li-ta’lil al-Mukhtar fi al-furu, Late 9th century A.H. , Late 15th century A.D.

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Identifier: Or Ms 679

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The writer was born in Mosul in AH 599 / 1202 AD, and lectured in Baghdad. This is his well-known treatise on Islamic Hanafi law.

Dates: Late 9th century A.H. ; Late 15th century A.D.

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Detail of page from the Compendium of Chronicles by Rashid al-Din. Shows text with central miniature depicting the Sultan Luhrasp seated on a throne, surrounded by attendants. [Please click twice to see the full manuscript] — Detail of page from the Compendium of Chro...

Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

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Scope and Contents This collection consists of over 700 manuscripts pertaining to the Islamicate world and South Asia, dating from the 10th to 19th centuries C.E. (the majority being post-1500). Chiefly bound paper codices, it includes sacred texts of importance to the Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh faiths, Qur’anic commentaries, Traditions of the Prophet Muhammad and the Shi’i Imams, works treating Islamic law, world history, the history of India, medicine,...

Dates: 10th-19th centuries C.E. (bulk: post-1500 C.E.)

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Or Ms 9: کنز الدقائق Kanz al-daqā'iq, undated copy (original text composed 13th or 14th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 9

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A work on Ḥanafī Law, by Abū al-Barakāt 'Abd-allāh b. Aḥmad b. Maḥmūd al-Nasafī (d. 710 A.H., 1310 C.E.). It is an abridgement of his al-Wāfī. This manuscript has been annotated in places in English. The annotations appear to be a reader's notes, translations and interpretations of the meanings of certain sections of the Arabic text. The hand appears to be that of John Baillie.

Dates: undated copy (original text composed 13th or 14th cent. C.E.)

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Or Ms 158: الهداية في الفروع ‘al-Hidāyah fī al-furū, undated copy (original text composed 12th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 158

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An incomplete copy of a well-known work on Ḥanafī law by Shaykh Burhān al-Dīn ‘Alī b. Abī Bakr al-Marghīnānī (d. 593 A.H., 1197 C.E.).

Dates: undated copy (original text composed 12th cent. C.E.)

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Or Ms 159: جامع الرموز Jāmi‘ al-rumūz, undated copy (original text composed 16th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 159

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A complete commentary on the Wiqāyat al-Hidāyah of ‘Ubayd-Allāh b. Maḥmūd b. Maḥmūd al-Maḥbūbī, also known as "Ṣadr al-Sharī‘ah", who lived in the seventh century of the ḥijrah. The author of the commentary is Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Khurāsānī Quhistānī, (d. circa 950 A.H., 1543 C.E.).

Dates: undated copy (original text composed 16th cent. C.E.)

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Or Ms 160: ترجمة عقيدة اهل السنة Tarjumat ‘aqīdat ahl al-sunnah, undated copy (original text composed 11-12th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 160

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A short treatise on advice to the people on the principles of religion by al-Imām Muḥammad b. Muḥammad al-Ghazālī, entitled "Ḥujjat al-Islām Zayn al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī'" (d. 505 A.H., 1111 C.E.).

Dates: undated copy (original text composed 11-12th cent. C.E.)

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Or Ms 180: فتاوی عالم گيری (کتاب جنايات) Fatāwī-i ʻālamgīrī (Kitāb-i janāyāt), undated (original text compiled 17th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 180

Scope and Contents This is a detached part of the Fatāwī-i ʻĀlamgīrī. It is incomplete both at the beginning and end, and contains numerous notes scribbled in English on the margins. The Fatāwī-i ʻĀlamgīrī, it is to be noted, is an extensive and highly esteemed work of legal decisions by doctors of the Ḥanafī school. It was originally compiled in Arabic by the order of the Mughal Emperor ʻĀlamgīr, and was begun, 1067 A.H. (1656 C.E.), by...

Dates: undated (original text compiled 17th cent. C.E.)

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Or Ms 181: هدايهٔ فارسی (جلد دوم) Hidāyah-yi Fārsī (vol. ii), 1201 A.H., 1786 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 181

Scope and Contents A copy of the second volume of the Hidāya, a celebrated treatise on Islamic Jurisprudence according to the doctrine of Imām Abū Ḥanīfah (d. 150 A.H., 767 C.E.) and his disciples Abū Yūsuf and Imām Muḥammad, the original work being in Arabic.It is a commentary on the Badāyat al-Mubtadā' by Shaykh Burhān al-Dīn 'Alī b. Abū Bakr al-Marghīnānī, who was born in Transoxania, and died at the age of 64, 593 A.H., 1197...

Dates: 1201 A.H.; 1786 C.E.

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Or Ms 182: هدايهٔ فارسی (جلد چهارم) Hidāyah-yi Fārsī (vol. iv), undated (Persian translation of a work originally composed in Arabic, 12th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 182

Scope and Contents A copy of the fourth and last volume of the Hidāya, a celebrated treatise on Islamic Jurisprudence according to the doctrine of Imām Abū Ḥanīfah (d. 150 A.H., 767 C.E.) and his disciples Abū Yūsuf and Imām Muḥammad, the original work being in Arabic.It is a commentary on the Badāyat al-Mubtadā' by Shaykh Burhān al-Dīn 'Alī b. Abū Bakr al-Marghīnānī, who was born in Transoxania, and died at the age of 64, 593 A.H.,...

Dates: undated (Persian translation of a work originally composed in Arabic, 12th cent. C.E.)

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Or Ms 183: هدايهٔ فارسی (جلد چهارم) Hidāya-'i Fārsī (vol. iv), undated

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Identifier: Or Ms 183

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A copy of the fourth and last volume of the Hidāya, a celebrated treatise on Islamic Jurisprudence according to the doctrine of Imām Abū Ḥanīfah and his disciples Abū Yūsuf and Imām Muḥammad, the original work being in Arabic.

The current copy includes seven chapters and is bound in stamped leather.

Dates: undated

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

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‘Abd Allah ibn Mahmud al-Mawsili. Al-Ikhtiyar li-ta’lil al-Mukhtar fi al-furu, Late 9th century A.H. , Late 15th century A.D.

Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Or Ms 9: کنز الدقائق Kanz al-daqā'iq, undated copy (original text composed 13th or 14th cent. C.E.)

Or Ms 158: الهداية في الفروع ‘al-Hidāyah fī al-furū, undated copy (original text composed 12th cent. C.E.)

Or Ms 159: جامع الرموز Jāmi‘ al-rumūz, undated copy (original text composed 16th cent. C.E.)

Or Ms 160: ترجمة عقيدة اهل السنة Tarjumat ‘aqīdat ahl al-sunnah, undated copy (original text composed 11-12th cent. C.E.)

Or Ms 180: فتاوی عالم گيری (کتاب جنايات) Fatāwī-i ʻālamgīrī (Kitāb-i janāyāt), undated (original text compiled 17th cent. C.E.)

Or Ms 181: هدايهٔ فارسی (جلد دوم) Hidāyah-yi Fārsī (vol. ii), 1201 A.H., 1786 C.E.

Or Ms 182: هدايهٔ فارسی (جلد چهارم) Hidāyah-yi Fārsī (vol. iv), undated (Persian translation of a work originally composed in Arabic, 12th cent. C.E.)

Or Ms 183: هدايهٔ فارسی (جلد چهارم) Hidāya-'i Fārsī (vol. iv), undated

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