Principles of Jurisprudence [IO Islamic 1737]

Principles of Jurisprudence. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1737 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 312 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 312. 1737. Size 81/2 in. by 61/4 in.; foll. 74. Six and eleven lines in a page. A short treatise on the Principles of Jurisprudence, styled المنار, by Ḥâfiẓ al-dîn Abu’l-barakât ‘Abdallah b. Aḥmad NASAFî Ḥanafî (d. A.H. 710). See Ḥ. Kh. vi. 121, and Cat. Mus. Brit. 119. After the short introduction, the treatise begins: اعلم ان اصول الشرع ثلثة الکتاب و السنة و اجماع الامة و الاصل الرابع القیاس. Written in Nasta’liḳ, by Ghulâm Muṣṭafa. Dated Friday, 7th Dhû-alḥijjah, 1118. Covered with glosses. There precedes (foll. 1-16r.) various extracts from works on law, some in Persian, written across the pages in several directions. [Johnson.]