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NAJM AL-DIN MUHAMMAD BIN 'ABDULLAH BIN QADI 'AJLUN AL-SHAFI'I (D.1471-72 AD): KITAB AL-TAJ MUKHTASAR TASHIH AL-MINHAJ

MAMLUK EGYPT OR SYRIA, 15TH CENTURY

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NAJM AL-DIN MUHAMMAD BIN 'ABDULLAH BIN QADI 'AJLUN AL-SHAFI'I (D.1471-72 AD): KITAB AL-TAJ MUKHTASAR TASHIH AL-MINHAJ
MAMLUK EGYPT OR SYRIA, 15TH CENTURY
An abridgement of the corrections to the Minhaj al-talibin, the celebrated Shafi'i law manual by al-Nawawi, on fiqh, Arabic manuscript on paper, 49ff.,17ll. of black naskh to the page, titles in red, with red comma markers, two colophons each stating it was copied by Umm Salman bint Muhammad al-Tabariya in Mecca in Safar AH 880, numerous added notes to the opening folio, with catchwords, occasional marginal notes, in paper covered binding with flap
Folio 7 ¼ x 5 ¼in. (18.5 x 13.5cm.)

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Another copy of this work, written in Damascus and dated18 Dhu’l-Qada AH 876/27 April 1472 AD, is in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, see A. Arberry, A Handlist of the Arabic Manuscripts, Dublin, 1962, p.150, no.4460. According to A. Arberry no other copy appears to be recorded. This is therefore a rare copy.

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