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Islamic Law
Manuscripts covering all schools of
Islamic law (Hanifi, Maliki, Shafi'i and Hanbali, and Shi'ah) and all aspects of Islamic jurisprudence - over 240 on the 4 foundations of law (usul al-fiqh) and almost 150 on inheritance
Over 500 manuscripts of works by
Hanifi jurists including Ibn Nujaym,
al-Kashghari, al-Mahbubi, al-Marghinani, al-Nasafi and al-Quduri - among the earliest are al-Khuttali's Sharh mukhtasar al-Quduri (537/1142) and al-Shaybani's al-Mabsut (568/1173)
The oldest copies of Maliki works
represented are Ibn Khiyarah's Fawa'id al-daris al-mushrifah (538/1141) and
Ibn Zarqun's al-Mu'lim bi-fawa'id kitab muslim (625/1228)
Nearly 15O works by Shafi'i jurists
such as al-Ansari, al-Damiri, al-Isnawi and al-Nawawi - among the oldest copies is al-Shirazi's al-Mudhahhab fi al-madhhab (540/1145)
6 Hanbali manuscripts from the
8th/14th and 9th/15th centuries
Over 250 copies of works by Shi'ah
jurists including al-'Amili, al-Hilli,
al-Mahdi li-Din Allah, al-Mu'ayyad
bi-Allah and al-Wazir - the earliest are al-Tusi's al-Mabsut fi al-fiqh (600/1203) and Ibn Babawayh al-Qummi's Kitab man la yahduruhu al-faqih (652/1254)
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