The second volume of the Catalog of Abūl-‘Abbās al-Mursiy covers 744 manuscripts on jurisprudence and related subjects (four schools of Islamic law, futwas, inheritance, law of descendant and distribution and others), constituting the largest group in the collection of the mosque. Among the most significant rarities are: a rare autograph manuscript of al-Ašbāh wa al-Nazā’ir– ‘Similarities and Equals’ by Ibn Nujaym al-Misry, and an anonymous book on Shafi‘i jurisprudence dated back to 608 H. (the oldest manuscript included in this volume).

Number of pages: 626.

The General Organization of the Alexandria Library, 2000.