{"product_id":"1711-ottoman-arabic-manuscript-on-heirs-shares-and-islamic-inheritance-law","title":"1711 Ottoman Arabic manuscript on heirs, shares, and Islamic inheritance law","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eal-Sajāwandī [Sirāj al-Milla Mu\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḥ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eammad b. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eʿ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAbd al-Rash\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos; mso-hansi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eī\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003ed al-Saj\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos; mso-hansi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eā\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003ewand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos; mso-hansi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eī\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e; dates unknown].\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eal-Sir\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos; mso-hansi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos;\"\u003eā\u003c\/span\u003ejiyya f\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos; mso-hansi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos;\"\u003eī\u003c\/span\u003e al-far\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos; mso-hansi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos;\"\u003eā\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eʾ\u003c\/span\u003ei\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;\"\u003eḍ\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eOttoman lands, completed in 1123 AH \/ 1711 CE.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e8°, Arabic manuscript on paper. 120 leaves. Arabic text in black ink with red rubrication, red overlining, and frequent red textual markers. Approximately 17 lines per page. Opening two pages written within ruled frames with gilt and coloured bands, red separators, and gold roundel markers; later leaves in red-ruled panels, followed by plainer unframed pages. Numerous marginal notes, corrections, inheritance calculations, and small schematic diagrams throughout.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eBound in brown morocco over boards, with blind-ruled decoration, worn from use.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e              \u003c\/span\u003eA dated Ottoman scholarly manuscript of al-Sirājiyya fī al-farā\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eʾ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003ei\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḍ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e, one of the best-known Hanafi texts on the Islamic law of inheritance. The work explains the formal division of estates among heirs: children, parents, spouses, siblings, agnatic relatives, and other legally recognized claimants. It \u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas made for practical legal study, not display alone. The margins preserve the traces of use by later readers: glosses, corrections, fractional calculations, and small inheritance diagrams showing how shares were to be distributed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe decorated opening gives the author as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eسراج\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eالملّة\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eمحمد\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eبن\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eعبد\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eالرشيد\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eالسجاوندي\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e — Sirāj al-Milla Mu\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḥ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eammad b. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eʿ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAbd al-Rash\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos; mso-hansi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eī\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003ed al-Saj\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos; mso-hansi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eā\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003ewand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos; mso-hansi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eī\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e. The text opens with the basmala, followed by praise of God and the Prophet, and then a traditional saying urging the study and teaching of the laws of inheritance, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos; mso-hansi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003efor they are half of knowledge.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos; mso-hansi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e This opening is especially appropriate for a manual of farā\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eʾ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003ei\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḍ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e, the technical discipline of inheritance law.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe first opening is attractively presented, with a large black basmala set within a decorated panel of gilt, green, red, and orange bands. The facing page continues in a matching framed layout. Thereafter the manuscript gradually becomes more utilitarian: the early leaves retain red ruled frames, while later leaves are plainer, with red ink used mainly for headings, emphasis, and textual division. This changing presentation reinforces the character of the manuscript as a working legal textbook.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe text remains consistent throughout as a manual of inheritance law, discussing the distribution of shares, exclusions and substitutions among heirs, corrections of inheritance calculations, and family-relationship cases involving parents, children, spouses, siblings, and more distant relatives. Several margins contain worked numerical examples and small schematic share tables, showing that the manuscript was actively consulted and studied. The colophon is preserved and dates the copy to 1123 AH \/ 1711 CE. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe preliminary blanks preserve additional later paratext. These include a large Arabic title inscription, Ottoman Turkish notes, and later ownership or reading annotations. One Ottoman Turkish note appears to refer to visiting a sacred relic or site in Egypt; another seems to be a short moral or devotional maxim. These notes are not central to the identification of the text, but they add to the manuscript’s history of use and circulation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eCondition:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e binding slightly rubbed, worn at the top of spine. First quire partially loose at the gutter, with exposed sewing; leaves with recurring upper-margin dampstaining, occasional wear. Text generally bright and well legible.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53974957752663,"sku":null,"price":2500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/05d779e9-4d09-4c98-8c1b-47a45211e377.png?v=1783592461","url":"https:\/\/artemrarebooks.com\/products\/1711-ottoman-arabic-manuscript-on-heirs-shares-and-islamic-inheritance-law","provider":"Artem Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}