Imam Malik b. Anus (d.AD713): al-Muwatta (selection)

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Imam Malik b. Anus (d.AD713): al-Muwatta (selection)
Andalusia or North Africa, circa 12th century

Islamic theology and jurisprudence, a selection from the famous work of Malik b. Anus, collected by Yahya b. Yahya al-Laithi al-Andalusi (d.849 AD), arabic manuscript on vellum, 30ff. each with 22ll. neat brown maghribi, titles in stronger similar script, with a few marginal notes in a fine minute contemporary hand, very few later marginal notes (slightly rubbed and stained a few folios with slight damage without loss of text)
9½ x 7½in. (24 x 18.8cm.)

拍品专文

Al-Muwatta is the oldest surviving corpus of Muslim law. The monumental work was pivotal in the Maghreb and Andalusia. Even in the present day it prevails in North Africa and Eastern Arabia. The collator, Yahya b. Yahya, was a student of Malik b. Anus in Baghdad, from whom he gained the epithet, 'the wise man of Andalus', due to his uninterrupted concentration on his work. Yahya b. Yahya was also the man responsible for the introduction of the Maliki rite into al-Andalus.

The present copy appears from the marginal notes to be the draft working copy of an editor