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Three Islamic legal texts

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Three Islamic Legal Texts. خسرو،ملا،-1480. درر الحكام, شهاب الدين احمد بن محمود. فرائض شهاب الدين.. 1582. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://idn.duke.edu/ark:/87924/r4xp6x22n.

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(1582). Three Islamic legal texts. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://idn.duke.edu/ark:/87924/r4xp6x22n.

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Three Islamic Legal Texts. 1582. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://idn.duke.edu/ark:/87924/r4xp6x22n.

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  • Manuscript codex.;Title devised by cataloger.;On leaf 1a, title of text 1 given as Kitāb Dūrar in Arabic script.;Physical description: 27-28 lines per page, written in small naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq on glazed, laid European paper. Overlining and section headings in red; rubrication lacking in text 3. On leaf 2a, quotations and a magic square. Table of contents for text 1 on leaves 2b-5a. Quotations on inheritance law on leaf 307b. Prayer on leaf 308b. Quotation on Āyat al-Kursī, inheritance law, and other religious topics on leaves 309b-311a. Copious marginal notes. Foliation in Eastern Arabic numerals begins on leaf 14a. Leaves 5-22 appear to be replacements. Leaves 298b-299a, 308a, 309a, 311b blank. Heavy damp staining on first few leaves, but text legible. Front cover and leaves 1-30 detached.;Incipit (text 1): الحمد لله الذي احكم احكام الشرع القويم بمحكم كتابه;Incipit (text 2): الحمد لله رب العالمين . . . قال القاضي الامام شهاب الدين ابو حامد محمد بن محمود . . . اني علمت في الفرائض اصلا مختصرا ليهدي حفظه الى بيان نصيب كل وارث;Incipit (text 3): الحمد لله الذي بين بكتابه فرائض الدين القويم وعين بخطبه لوازم سهام صراط المستقيم;Full brown leather Islamic binding; blind-stamped central mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled fillets. Peach paper doublures. Spine repaired.
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