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Title

Facsimile of LJS 436, Ḍawʼ al-sirāj

Authors

Dot Porter, University of Pennsylvania LibrariesFollow

Date of this Version

2-21-2015

Files

Comments

14th-century copy of a late 13th-century manual on the mathematics of the Islamic law of inheritance, in the form of a paragraph by paragraph commentary on the Farāʼiḍ al-Sirājīyah of 12th-century legal and mathematical scholar Sirāj al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Sajāwandī.

Keywords

Mathematics Arab--Early works to 1800, Inheritance and succession (Islamic law)--Early works to 1800 Codices, Commentaries, Diagrams, Manuals (instructional materials), Tables (documents), Manuscripts Arabic--14th century, Manuscripts Medieval

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http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5445696

Link to OPENN

http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs436.html

Recommended Citation

Porter, Dot, "Facsimile of LJS 436, Ḍawʼ al-sirāj" (2015). Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS): EBooks. 70.
https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/70