Part ofWiqayah ar-Riwayah fi Masa'il al'HidayahandManasik Namah

Copy of part of Wiqayah ar-Riwayah fi Masa'il al'Hidayah by Burhan ash-Sharia Mahmud ibn Sadr ash-Sharia 'Ubaid-Allah al-Mahbubi. An abridgement of the Hidayah, a well known compendium of Muslim law according to the Hanafi rite. Good naskhi, Arabic.

Manasik Namah, a Persian title meaning 'an account of the ceremonies of the Pilgrimage to Meccah' in different hands. The headings are in Turkish, the rest in Arabic. Cites Waqi 'at al-Husamiyah of Husam ad-Din ash-Shahid (d. 536/1141), Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ash-Shaibani and Abu Yusuf (Ya'qub ibn Ibrahim al-Kufi).

Burhan ash-Sharia Mahmud ibn Sadr ash-Sharia 'Ubaid-Allah al-Mahbubi (d. 673), was from a family of famous theologians and writers of Hanafi textbooks.

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Presented with others as gift from Sir John MacGregor Murray of Lanerick Bt (d. 1822), catalogued with extensive notes on Johann Albrecht Widmansetter by DM Dunlop.

Call number used to be ms msPJ7830.B8

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Paper: 8.75" x 6".

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Formerly owned by German orientalist Johann Albrecht Widmansetter (1500-1559).