4to. Volume I: [4, contents], 9-178 pp., Lacking eight pages / Volume II: 4 pp., contents, 183 pp., Arabic lithographed text, modern hard back binding, paper browned, minor spotting, al-Matba’a al-Khairiya, Cairo, 1310 A. H./ 1884.

Synopsis

It is a dictionary of Islamic legal terms that was originally written as a gloss on the commentary of ‘Abd al-Karim al-Rafi’i (died 623 AH/AD 1226) on al-Wajiz fi al-furu’ by Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazzali (died 505 AH/AD 1111), entitled Fath al-‘aziz ‘alá kitab al-Wajiz. The manuscript was copied by the shi`ite scribe ‘Ali ibn Muhibb ‘Ali in 1083 AH/AD 1673 in Iran. The text was later collated with three other manuscripts in Mecca in 1166 AH/AD 1752 by Muhammad al-Atrabazundi.