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[A Commentary by Imam and Scholar Al-Izmiri on a Brief Explanation of the Scholar Holla Hüsrev, Called Mirror of Fundaments…]

Vol. 1:  4 pp., index, 468 pp. (old annotations in black ink in Arabic on the title page, minor staining and narrow small water-staining, mostly in margins, soft folds in margins of first pages, endpapers with small folds in margins and small tears in the gutters, binding slightly rubbed and pale on the spine, small pieces of flap ends shipped, but in general in a good used condition). 

Vol. 2: 4 pp., index, 470 pp. (old annotations in black ink in Arabic on the first blank page, minor staining and narrow small water-staining, mostly in margins, soft folds in margins of first pages, endpapers with small folds in margins and small tears in the gutters, binding slightly rubbed and pale on the spine, but in general in a good used condition).    

The book in Arabic language, printed in Istanbul, in the late 15th century juridical text Usul al-Fiqh ( ) مرآة الأصول في شرح مرقاة الوصول by Molla Hüsrev with contemporary annotations by a scholar Muhammad Izmiri. 

Usul al-Fiqh ( ) أصول الفقه or Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence are methodological principles used in the human understanding for deriving the rulings of Islamic Law (Sharia).  

Molla Hüsrev was an esteemed Ottoman scholar, historian and lawyer, active in Istanbul. Molla Hürsev’s text is divided in two books, separated in chapters dealing with various aspects of Usul alFiqh. Hüsrev’s texts, written in plain and understandable Arabic, have been used as one of the basics for religion and law lesions at the Ottoman madrasas. 

The book was lithographed by Muharrem Efendi Busnavi, a publisher of Bosnian origins, based in Istanbul. 

References: OCLC 798054836; Fehrat KOCA: MİR’ÂTÜ’l-USÛL.  مرآة الاصو ل (https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/miratul-usul).