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Book/Printed Material Students' Guide.

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Title

  • Students' Guide.

Summary

  • Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad al-Anṣārī, a Shafi'i jurist, teacher, and Sufi, was born in Egypt and studied at al-Azhar, the Sunni Islamic center of learning in Cairo. Throughout his long career (he lived about 100 years), al-Anṣārī held many positions as judge and Sufi authority. He is recognized as a major figure in medieval Sunni jurisprudence. He studied under the greatest teachers of the age and influenced later generations, being referred to by the honorific Shaykh al-Islam. Manhaj al-Ṭullāb (Students' guide) is an abridgement of Nawawī's Minhāj al-Ṭālibīn (Path of knowledge seekers), a major juridical reference from the 13th century. It was followed by longer commentaries by numerous authors and became a standard teaching text, which was often reprinted at the Bulaq Press and elsewhere. The press was one of the principal institutions established by visionary suzerain Muḥammad ʻAlī (reigned 1805-49). Founded along modern administrative principles, it served the government and private persons by producing works of science, engineering, and history, as well as literary and Islamic classics. This copy was printed at the Bulaq Press in 1868 under the supervision of its director, Husayn Husni. The book is instantly recognizable in appearance, typography, paper, and layout as a product of this famous press. The colophon is typical of the times, containing a long encomium to Isma'il Pasha, Egypt's ruler.

Names

  • Anṣārī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, around 1420-1519 Author.
  • Nawawī, 1233-1277 Contributor.

Created / Published

  • Cairo : Bulaq Press, 1868.

Headings

  • -  Egypt
  • -  1233 to 1277
  • -  Islamic law
  • -  Jurisprudence
  • -  Shafiites
  • -  Sunnites

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 194 pages ; 20 centimeters.
  • -  Reference extracted from World Digital Library: Khalid Azab and Ahmad Mansur, Matba'at Bulaq (The Bulaq Press), (Alexandria, Egypt: Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2005), (in Arabic), http://www.bibalex.org/bulaqpress/En/Bulaq.htm External (in English).|Abu Futuh Radhwan, Tarikh Matba'at Bulaq (History of the Bulaq Press), (Cairo: Amiriyah Press, 1953), (in Arabic).
  • -  Original resource at: Qatar National Library.
  • -  Content in Arabic.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021666235

Online Format

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Chicago citation style:

Anṣārī, Zakarīyā Ibn Muḥammad, Around Author, and Contributor Nawawī. Students' Guide. Cairo: Bulaq Press, 1868. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666235/.

APA citation style:

Anṣārī, Z. I. M. & Nawawī, C. (1868) Students' Guide. Cairo: Bulaq Press. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666235/.

MLA citation style:

Anṣārī, Zakarīyā Ibn Muḥammad, Around Author, and Contributor Nawawī. Students' Guide. Cairo: Bulaq Press, 1868. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021666235/>.