Majmūʻah : manuscript, 1848-1857

1. Kitāb Maqṣad al-asná fī dhikr mā yataʻallaq bi-al-asmāʼ al-ḥusná / Aḥmad Zarrūq, 1267 AH [1850 or 51 AD] (ff. 1r-21v) -- 2. Sharḥ sayyid al-istighfār / ʻAlī Mahāyimī, 1265 AH [1848 or 49 AD] (ff. 25r-32v) -- 3. Hādhā al-suʼāl nuqila min asʼilah suʼila ʻanhā ... Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Kurdī al-Shāmī al-Madanī (ff. 33r-39r) -- 4. Hādhā fawāyid nafīsah ... wa-mimmā suʼila ʻanhu ... al-Shaykh Saʻīd Sunbul al-Makkī, 1273 AH [1856 or 57 AD] (ff. 39r-51r) -- 5. Mā qawl al-sādah al-Ḥanafīyah fī ʻaṣīr qaṣab al-sukkar / ʻAbd al-Wahhāb al-Suyūṭī al-Ḥanafī, ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Rāfiʻī al-Ḥanafī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Baḥrāwī al-Ḥanafī, Muḥammad al-Rāfiʻī al-Ḥanafī (ff. 51v-55r).

Tartīb Majmūʻ al-Kallāʼī : manuscript, 1641

Written in one column, 27 lines per page, in black and red.

Kitāb Sharḥ al-Sirājīyah fī ʻilm al-farāyiḍ / lil-ʻAllāmah Ḥaydar : manuscript, undated

Written in one column, 28 or 29 lines per page, in black rubricated in red. Comments in the margins.

al- Farāʼiḍ al-Sirājīyah : manuscript, 1439

Written in one column, 5 lines per page, in black rubricated in red. Text surrounded by comments in the margins.

Masāʼil al-mutashābihah min masāʾil al-farāʼiḍ : manuscript, [1439]

Reading note dated Ṣafar 852 [April 5-14, 1448].

Tashīl al-farāʼiḍ : manuscript, 1747

Copy completed in Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 1160 [1747].

Hādhā Sharḥ al-Raḥbīyah / lil-Imām al-ʻĀlim al-ʻAllāmah ... al-Shaykh Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī : manuscript, 1697

Copy completed 13 Ramaḍān 1108 [April 5, 1697] in the hand of Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Najāḥī al-Shāfiʻī.

Risālah fī tafṣīl masāʼil dhawī al-arḥām : manuscript, [1747]

Dated 1106 [1694-5] but it appears to be a mistake, the correct date should be 1160 [1747].

Hādhā Sirājīyah fī ʻilm al-farāʼiḍ : manuscript, 1747

Copy completed in 1160 [1747] in the hand of Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn.

Hādhā Kitāb farāʼiḍ : manuscript, 1741 or 2

Paginated 36-45.

Hādhā Taqrīr-i farāʼiẓ [sic] : manuscript, [1747]

Paginated 94-101.

Risālah fī al-farāʼiḍ : manuscript, 1761 or 2

Title supplied by cataloger.

Kitāb Fatḥ al-fayyāḍ fī ʻilm al-farāʼiḍ : manuscript, 1911

Title translation : The Endowment of the Generous [i.e. God] regarding the Science of Inheritance.

Majmūʻah : manuscript, 1401-1402

1. Tarih-i Al-i Osman bin Ertuğrul (dates of Ottoman Sultans) (f. 1r) -- 2. Suret-i arzname (ff. 1v--2v) -- 3. Arabic poem, awāʼil Muḥarram 804 [August 11-20, 1401] (copied by Ḥājjī Aḥmad ibn ... al-B.f.l.ghānī) (ff. 3r-11r) -- 4. Taʻrīfāt ʻilm usūl fiqh, Shawwāl 804 [May 1402] (ff. 11v-16v) -- 5. Arabic glossary (explanations in Arabic and Persian), 804 [1402] (copied by Idrīs b. Ḥasan b. Bayram) (ff. 17r-52r) -- 6. Sharḥ al-Farāʼiḍ al-Sirājīyah / ʻAbd al-Karīm b. Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Hamadānī al-Tabrīzī, awāsiṭ Dhī al-Ḥijja 804 [July 1402] (copied by Idrīs b. Ḥasan b. Bayram) (ff. 52v-94r) -- 7. Lughat-i ḥurūf (ff. 94v-95r) -- 8. Mufradāt-i Pārsī (A list of Persian verbs) (ff. 95v-97v).

Wrong way go back! Rediscovering the path for charity law reform

Problems with charity law jurisprudence persist. The difficulties arose in the 20th century and are fundamental to the way the doctrine is presently theorised. They grew out of the approach taken in Pemsel’s Case to the categorisation of the ‘spirit and intendment’ of the Preamble to the Statute of Charitable Uses. Recent statutory reforms, such as the Charities Act 2006 (Eng&W), have compounded the underlying problems rather than resolving them. This paper aims to stimulate thinking about a new foundation for charity jurisprudence – while the approach may seem radical, the paper argues that these new foundations can be discerned underlying the current jurisprudence. The difficulties can be overcome by rediscovering the underlying jurisprudence which is disregarded in the current approach to categorisation. Giving voice, in contemporary language, to that foundational jurisprudence, this paper provides a way out of the current problems. It also provides an alternative way of conceptualising the doctrine of charitable purpose to guide reform.