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Manuscript/Mixed Material Kitāb Kanz al-daqāʼiq : ʻalá madhhab al-Imam al-Aʻẓam Abī Ḥanīfah al-Nuʻmān ibn Thābit raḍiya Allāh ʻanh, bi-rasm Mawlānā al-Sulṭān al-Malik al-Ẓahirī Saʻīd Muḥammad Jaqmaq, aʻazza Allāh anṣārah كتاب كنز الدقائق : على مذهب الإمم الأعظم أبي حنيفة النعمان بن ثابت رضي الله عنه، برسم مولانا السلطان الملك الظهري سعيد محمد جقمق، أعز الله انصارة / Folio 1a (first section): Ancien droit islamique

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Title

  • Kitāb Kanz al-daqāʼiq : ʻalá madhhab al-Imam al-Aʻẓam Abī Ḥanīfah al-Nuʻmān ibn Thābit raḍiya Allāh ʻanh, bi-rasm Mawlānā al-Sulṭān al-Malik al-Ẓahirī Saʻīd Muḥammad Jaqmaq, aʻazza Allāh anṣārah

Other Title

  • كتاب كنز الدقائق : على مذهب الإمم الأعظم أبي حنيفة النعمان بن ثابت رضي الله عنه، برسم مولانا السلطان الملك الظهري سعيد محمد جقمق، أعز الله انصارة
  • Folio 1a (first section): Ancien droit islamique

Summary

  • Kanz al-daqāʼiq (The treasure of exactitudes) is a summary of Islamic legal prescriptions according to the Hanifite school of sharia law. It covers many aspects of ritual and of personal life, such as purity during menstruation, as well as obligations and procedures pertaining to marriage, divorce, inheritance and other aspects of gender relations. The work also covers commercial transactions, contracts, and manumission of slaves. The table of contents is in matrix form for easy reference to the book's many subjects. It is not clear whether the author, al-Nasafi (died 1310), also known as Abu al-Barakat al-Nasifi, was originally from Central Asia or from south-central Iran. He is known to have studied law with leading scholars and made the pilgrimage to Mecca, after which he traveled to Baghdad. One of his works, 'Umdat 'aqīdat ahl al-Sunnah (Pillars of Sunni belief) was edited and published in the 1840s by British scholar William Cureton (1808-64). There are four Sunni schools of fiqh (religious jurisprudence), all named for their respective founders, Abu Hanifah (circa 699-767), Malik ibn Anas (circa 711-795), al-Shafiʻi (767-820), and Ibn Hanbal (780-855). Each of these schools bases its codifications of law on the Qurʼan and the sunnah (sayings and practices of the Prophet Muhammad), supplemented by rules for interpreting these fundamentals as changing times or as new conditions may require. The four schools spread with the geographic expansion of Islam, and one or another became the principal school in different countries or regions. All are mutually recognized as authoritative. The manuscript was commissioned by or presented to the Egyptian Mamluk ruler Jaqmaq (died 1453). The title is contained in an ornate gilt medallion and the text is framed in red, accompanied by numerous marginal notes. There is water damage throughout and missing text has been repaired or replaced. There is no colophon giving date or place of copying. World Digital Library.
  • Teatise on Islamic law accoring to the Hanafi madhhab.

Names

  • Nasafī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, -1310
  • Jaqmaq, Sultan of Egypt, -1453, former owner
  • Ṣafā, Jirjis, active 1491, former owner
  • Ẓāhirī, Tamr ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Jamālī al-Malikī, associated name

Created / Published

  • [first half 15th century]

Headings

  • -  Hanafites--Early works to 1800
  • -  Islamic law--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Folios 1a-112a; index folio 1a-1b preceding text.
  • -  In margin of title page: Thumma sāqahu al-taqdīr ilá malik al-ʻabd al-faqīr Jirjis Ṣafā min Dayr al-Qamr sanat 897 [1491 or 1492]."
  • -  Library of Congress. Arabic manuscript, SM 39.
  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Naskhī script; 15 lines in written area 21 x 14 cm.
  • -  On folio 112a "Khidmat al-mamlūk Tamr ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Jamālī al-Malikī al-Ẓāhirī, aʻazza Allah anṣārah."
  • -  Paper: thick, cream color paper, with no visible chain lines or watermarks; text inclosed within narrow red borders; black ink; section headings in gold ink, chapter headings in blue or red ink; elaborate gold gilt title page with blue ink which is now almost illegible; the manuscript has moderate to sever dampstaining throughout however without loss of text. Catchwords on rectos.
  • -  Prepared under that patronage of al-Malik al-Ẓāhir Sayf al-Dīn Jaqmaq, Sultan of Egypt, 1438-1453.
  • -  Title in gold and blue ink folio 1a.
  • -  Unadorned brown soft leather binding.
  • -  Written in Egypt?
  • -  Fihris al-makhṭūṭāt al-ʻArabīyah fi Maktabat al-Kūnghris, p. 31
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
  • -  Arabic (vocalized).
  • -  ‏Explicit/Colophon: خدمة المملوك تمر بن عبد الله الجمالي الملكي الظاهري اعز الله انصاره.
  • -  ‏Incipit: الحمد لله الذي اعز العلم في الاعصار.
  • -  ‏In margin of title page: ‏ثم ساقه التقدير إلى ملك العبد الفقير جرجس صفا من دير القمر سنة 897 [1491 او 1492]."

Medium

  • [2], 112, [1] leaves (15 lines) bound : paper ; 30.2 x 21.5 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • KBP300.N37 A35 1400z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2014371042

Online Format

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Nasafī, ʻAbd Allāh Ibn Aḥmad, -1310, Sultan Of Egypt Jaqmaq, Jirjis Ṣafā, and Tamr Ibn ʻAbd Allāh Al-Jamālī Al-Malikī Ẓāhirī. Kitāb Kanz al-daqāʼiq: ʻalá madhhab al-Imam al-Aʻẓam Abī Ḥanīfah al-Nuʻmān ibn Thābit raḍiya Allāh ʻanh, bi-rasm Mawlānā al-Sulṭān al-Malik al-Ẓahirī Saʻīd Muḥammad Jaqmaq, aʻazza Allāh anṣārah. [First Half 15th Century] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/2014371042/.

APA citation style:

Nasafī, ʻ. A. I. A., Jaqmaq, S. O. E., Ṣafā, J. & Ẓāhirī, T. I. ʻ. A. A. A. Kitāb Kanz al-daqāʼiq: ʻalá madhhab al-Imam al-Aʻẓam Abī Ḥanīfah al-Nuʻmān ibn Thābit raḍiya Allāh ʻanh, bi-rasm Mawlānā al-Sulṭān al-Malik al-Ẓahirī Saʻīd Muḥammad Jaqmaq, aʻazza Allāh anṣārah. [First Half 15th Century] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2014371042/.

MLA citation style:

Nasafī, ʻAbd Allāh Ibn Aḥmad, -1310, et al. Kitāb Kanz al-daqāʼiq: ʻalá madhhab al-Imam al-Aʻẓam Abī Ḥanīfah al-Nuʻmān ibn Thābit raḍiya Allāh ʻanh, bi-rasm Mawlānā al-Sulṭān al-Malik al-Ẓahirī Saʻīd Muḥammad Jaqmaq, aʻazza Allāh anṣārah. [First Half 15th Century] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2014371042/>.