Subject: Inheritance and succession (Islamic law) / Material Type: Archives and Manuscripts - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Subject Inheritance and succession (Islamic law) Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13398/1
Title:: Risālah fī al-farāʾiḍ - رسالة في الفرائض
Scope & Content:: This section of the volume (ff 1r-6r) contains part of a tract in Ottoman Turkish and Arabic on the apportionment of inheritances, most likely according to the Hanafi mezhep. It contains an annotated table. This manuscript was copied in 1050 AH (1640-41 CE).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 1050
Extent:: 1 item, 94 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14075
Title:: [Sharḥ al-farāʾiḍ al-sirājīyah] - [شرح الفرائض السراجية]
Scope & Content:: This volume contains an Ottoman Turkish translation and commentary, without the name of the author provided and with no title, of al-Farāʾiḍ al-sirājīyah, the well-known Arabic work on the law of inheritance according to the Hanefi mezhep. The author of the original Arabic text was Sirāj al-Dīn ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: Late 15th century
Extent:: 1 text, 77 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 16280
Title:: Vakfiye - واقفيه
Scope & Content:: This volume contains the vakfiye or deed of endowment drawn up for Mehmet Ali Paşa (Muhammad Ali Pasha) in respect of the medrese and library which he founded at Kavala, his hometown, in Aegean Macedonia (contemporary Greece/Egejska Makedonija). For the codicil to this deed, see Or 16281. Mehmet...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 1228
Extent:: 1 text, 7 ff

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