KITAB MAN LA YAHDURUHUU AL-FAQIH (A TWELVER SHIA WORK OF...
KITAB MAN LA YAHDURUHUU AL-FAQIH (A TWELVER SHIA WORK OF ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE) by Ibn Bābawayh al-Qummī (d. 381 AH / 991 CE), copied by Mohammad Hussein Ibn Ali'Jan Al-Nahawandi
Safavid Iran, dated 16th Rabi Al-Awal 1094 AH (1683 AD)
Arabic text on paper, composed of 285 leaves, 1 fly leaf and 1 end page, complete, 25 lines to the page in elegant black naskh script, with significant words picked out in red throughout; inner margins ruled with a gilt fillet, with marginal notes and catchwords; opening frontispiece illuminated with a single unwan, decorated with polychrome flower heads filling a gilt and cobalt-blue niche-shaped cartouche; nineteenth-century binding.
34.5cm x 22cm x 3cm
Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Babawayh al-Qummi was a prominent Twelver Shia scholar, jurist, and traditionist from Qom. He is the author of Kitab Man La Yahduruhuu al-Faqih, a major collection of hadiths and jurisprudence and one of the four canonical books of Twelver Shia Islam. The work compiles traditions concerning religious practice and Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh), serving as an important source for Shia legal and religious studies.
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KITAB MAN LA YAHDURUHUU AL-FAQIH (A TWELVER SHIA WORK OF ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE) by Ibn Bābawayh al-Qummī (d. 381 AH / 991 CE), copied by Mohammad Hussein Ibn Ali'Jan Al-Nahawandi
Safavid Iran, dated 16th Rabi Al-Awal 1094 AH (1683 AD)
Arabic text on paper, composed of 285 leaves, 1 fly leaf and 1 end page, complete, 25 lines to the page in elegant black naskh script, with significant words picked out in red throughout; inner margins ruled with a gilt fillet, with marginal notes and catchwords; opening frontispiece illuminated with a single unwan, decorated with polychrome flower heads filling a gilt and cobalt-blue niche-shaped cartouche; nineteenth-century binding.
34.5cm x 22cm x 3cm
Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Babawayh al-Qummi was a prominent Twelver Shia scholar, jurist, and traditionist from Qom. He is the author of Kitab Man La Yahduruhuu al-Faqih, a major collection of hadiths and jurisprudence and one of the four canonical books of Twelver Shia Islam. The work compiles traditions concerning religious practice and Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh), serving as an important source for Shia legal and religious studies.
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