http://alazem.org/index.htmlnotes on medieval Muslim legal historyentalal@alazem.orgCopyright 2009 Compendia Hanafianae2008-12-05T01:46:03+00:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:17:55 +0000talal@alazem.orgBooksManuscriptsResearch2008-12-05T01:46:03+00:00http://alazem.org/index_files/018cdd9d74e17259a01da6407fba4d85-18.html#unique-entry-id-18http://alazem.org/index_files/018cdd9d74e17259a01da6407fba4d85-18.html#unique-entry-id-18
Again, most manuscript information has been gathered primarily for the works of al-Qudūrī himself, and those works based upon his works. The list of works authored by any of the mentioned scholars is not currently exhaustive in the least.

With time, over the coming months and years, I hope to continue to add information to the entries of the currently 115 Hanafi authors currently in the database, and to continue to add more biographical, bibliographical, and manuscript-related entries as my research continues. Nonetheless, I believe that even in its current form, it might prove useful insofar as it collect this information in English and in one place.

This database will also form the basis of the upcoming updates to the Hanafi scholars timeline, and a map of Hanafi teacher:student chains of transmission which I am developing.

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Note, however, that while the database aims to exhaustively list every title written by Qudūrī or related to his works, the database does not aim nor claim to exhaustively list every extant manuscript thereof. The only titles for which I have entered every known manuscript that I have come across are: (1) al-Qudūri, al-Taqrīb; (2) al-Qudūrī, Sharḥ Mukhtaṣar al-Karkhī; (3) al-Qudūrī, Ḥadīth, aw Juzʾ; (4) al-Qudūrī, Nabdha min Manāqib Abī Ḥanīfa; and (5) al-Aqṭaʿ, Sharḥ Mukhtaṣar al-Qudūrī.

The other works do have many manuscript entries, nonetheless; however, I have largely entered those manuscripts which I found outside of Sezgin and Brockelmann, such as in Ḥabshī's Jāmiʿ al-Shurūḥ wa'l-Ḥawāshī, on http://yazmalar.gov.tr, and other such sources which I may not remember in the future. As for those manuscripts listed in Sezgin and Brockelmann: well, simply look them up there. View this database as a supplement to these two common reference works.

If you come across any works or manuscripts which I do not list here, and that are not simply mentioned in Brockelmann or Sezgin, please drop me a note or leave a comment below, and I will include them.]]>talal@alazem.orgBooksDownloadsManuscripts2008-01-20T14:03:54+00:00http://alazem.org/index_files/906f0f3437808d948d74b9baf3964491-16.html#unique-entry-id-16http://alazem.org/index_files/906f0f3437808d948d74b9baf3964491-16.html#unique-entry-id-16Guide to Using Carl Brockelmann's Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur" in their 1974 MELA Notes 3.

As a further supplementary aid, I have visually rendered much of the information regarding the layout of the GAS provided by the guide into a chart, which may be downloaded as PDF here.

I will soon update the PDF to include a second page with a list of the abbreviations provided by Brockelmann (currently, the PDF just gives the page numbers provided by Richard Cooper, the author of the MELA notes above). Arranged in booklet form, the PDF may then be printed, folded in half, and used as a quick key to the GAS.
]]>talal@alazem.orgManuscriptsWebsites2008-01-18T14:03:30+00:00http://alazem.org/index_files/142446eeb75b041603baa561e5c7616a-15.html#unique-entry-id-15http://alazem.org/index_files/142446eeb75b041603baa561e5c7616a-15.html#unique-entry-id-15online catalogues page, but the University of Michigan site links to this wiki page from the TIMA site, revealing a slightly bigger list of online manuscript resources.]]>talal@alazem.orgManuscriptsWebsites2008-01-18T14:03:10+00:00http://alazem.org/index_files/b8595ea6873b6b53415210b5a8efe756-14.html#unique-entry-id-14http://alazem.org/index_files/b8595ea6873b6b53415210b5a8efe756-14.html#unique-entry-id-14website with numerous downloadable PDF's that catalogue various types of bibliographical resources, Middle Eastern periodicals, manuscript catalogues, dictionaries, and more.

For a small, non-comprehensive, but still useful hand reference on the main catalogues of manuscripts libraries and collections (especially in the West), download this PDF from their site.

The Near Eastern Division also provides this list of links to numerous other websites, including a number that provide or discuss Islamic and Middle Eastern manuscripts.]]>