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ARABIC MANUSCRIPT ON ISLAMIC LAW. Undated, but judging by the style from the 16th or 17th century.

A commentary on the "Fikh" or "Fiqh" (Islamic law), mainly after the Shafe´i system, a system most common on the Egyptian and Libyan coasts, and in Eastern Africa, Southern Palestine, West- and South Arabia, together with the Indian coastal areas. Under the Ottoman empire the system was used in Syria and Iraq.

4:o (330x230 mm.). 326 pp. (including 2 blank). Lacking the first c. 8 leaves. Written in black and red ink.
On the first leaf is a sub-chapter (=Adzan) from the tract over the prayer (=Salat).
Thereafter follow 30 complete tracts, of which the following are rare in the known codices (in the system of the Hanafis there are usually 59 tracts): Kitab Salat al Giama´at (on praying together), al Ginazat (on funerals), Qasm al Fay´ (on the distribution of war-booty).
There are short commentaries between the large rows of the main text horizontal or vertical. The main text appears in 9 to 11 lines.

The used references (=Asanid) are mostly from wellknown scholars from the Shafe´i - Fiqh, as al Baihaki (d. 1066 AD), Al-Darkutni (d. 995 AD), Ibn abi ´Asrun (d. 1189 AD), Tabari (d. 923 AD), al-Subki (d. 1369 AD) and together with the older traditionalists of Islam as Ibn Abbas (d. 686 AD) and Fatawa al Ghazzali (d. 1111 AD, and more frequently the comments of Muhaddab fi I-Madhab by Abi Ishaq asch-Schirazi (d. 1083 AD) and as the most recent the comments of Ibn Qadi Shuba (d. 1448 AD).

Contemporary brown full leather with a folding flap, worn, blindtooled decorations, spotted and with traces of some mould, spine with damages at head and foot. Some dampstaining or spotting, mostly in lower margin.

This law manuscript seems to be collected from various sources for the use of the writer /owner.
The writer does not give his name, but humbly stating "Allahuma aghfir li katibihi wa li malikihi" (= God forgive the scribe and the owner).

On the last leaf there is a written genealogy, which may concern the identity of the scribe, the first names are: Tarud ben Ismael ben Abd-er-Rahman ben Abdallah ben Muhammad...:

With an assesment in German by professor Dr. Michael Breydy, probably from the 1970´s.

Provenance: From the library of Ove Hassler (1904-87), Dean in Linköping, Sweden, and his son, Eivind Hassler (1939-2009).

Auktionsnummer:

6402

Date:

2016-12-20