The Collection of Symbols: Explanation on Prevention in Matters of Guidance
(شرح مختصر الوقاية جامع الرموز)

Name: The Collection of Symbols: Explanation on Prevention in Matters of Guidance
Author: Quhustānī, Muḥammad, -approximately 1546

Title	The Collection of Symbols: Explanation on Prevention in Matters of Guidance
Title Original	شرح مختصر الوقاية جامع الرموز
Author	Quhustānī, Muḥammad, -approximately 1546
Publication Date:	1880
Publication Place	- Kazan Imperial University Publishing House
Type	Book
Language	Arabic
Digital	No
Manuscript	No
Physical Dimensions	1 online resource.
Library:	Library of Congress
Library Asset ID	2021671103
Record ID	22264028
Date	1880
Sample Text	Jāmi' al-Rumūz: Sharh Mukhtaṣar al-Wiqāya (The collection of symbols: explanation on prevention in matters of guidance) by Shams al-Dīn Muhammad al-Quhustānī (died circa 1546) is a commentary on Mukhtaṣar al-Wiqāya fi Masa'il al-Hidaya (Brief explanation of the book on prevention in matters of guidance to the true path) by Ubayd Allāh ibn Masūd Mahbūbī, who died in 1346--47. Al-Quhustānī was a scholar of the Hanafi Madhab (one of the four Sunni schools of fiqh, or religious jurisprudence) and a mufti in Bukhara (present-day Uzbekistan). The work contains two volumes consisting of 46 sections called books. Each book is devoted to a particular area of Muslim life, such as ablution, fasting, the hajj, marriage, punishment, and inheritance. The introduction presents short biographies of the theologians whose names are referred to in the book, in particular the founders of the schools of religious law. The work itself is preceded by a long introduction written, and added for this edition, by Aḥmad ibn Maḥmūd Qāḍī Zādah, himself a Hanafi scholar, in which he expounds on the virtues of the scholars of the four schools of thought. This edition was published in 1880 by the Publishing House of the Emperor's University in Kazan, Russia. Founded by Tsar Alexander I in 1804, Kazan University was the premier center of oriental studies and Islamic publishing in the Russian Empire.
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The Collection of Symbols: Explanation on Prevention in Matters of Guidance

(شرح مختصر الوقاية جامع الرموز)

Author Quhustānī, Muḥammad, -approximately 1546

Publication Date 1880

Publication Place - Kazan Imperial University Publishing House

Type Book

Language Arabic

Digital No

Manuscript No

Physical Dimensions 1 online resource.

Library Library of Congress

Library Asset ID 2021671103

Record ID 22264028

Date 1880

Sample Text Jāmi' al-Rumūz: Sharh Mukhtaṣar al-Wiqāya (The collection of symbols: explanation on prevention in matters of guidance) by Shams al-Dīn Muhammad al-Quhustānī (died circa 1546) is a commentary on Mukhtaṣar al-Wiqāya fi Masa'il al-Hidaya (Brief explanation of the book on prevention in matters of guidance to the true path) by Ubayd Allāh ibn Masūd Mahbūbī, who died in 1346--47. Al-Quhustānī was a scholar of the Hanafi Madhab (one of the four Sunni schools of fiqh, or religious jurisprudence) and a mufti in Bukhara (present-day Uzbekistan). The work contains two volumes consisting of 46 sections called books. Each book is devoted to a particular area of Muslim life, such as ablution, fasting, the hajj, marriage, punishment, and inheritance. The introduction presents short biographies of the theologians whose names are referred to in the book, in particular the founders of the schools of religious law. The work itself is preceded by a long introduction written, and added for this edition, by Aḥmad ibn Maḥmūd Qāḍī Zādah, himself a Hanafi scholar, in which he expounds on the virtues of the scholars of the four schools of thought. This edition was published in 1880 by the Publishing House of the Emperor's University in Kazan, Russia. Founded by Tsar Alexander I in 1804, Kazan University was the premier center of oriental studies and Islamic publishing in the Russian Empire.

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